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Author: John Carr ,
Lori Beckett
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.490kg
ISBN: 9781138290112
ISBN 10: 1138290114
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 18 June 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is a work that is sure to challenge and inspire in equal measure. It deserves to be read by every teacher - and indeed citizen - who wishes to understand how Irish education has arrived at this particular moment of transition and how this might be used as an opportunity to collectively recommit ourselves to a progressive view of education that values the individual above the system and society above economy. Carr and Beckett are to be congratulated for their exemplary scholarship and rigorous commitment to the truth. Joe O'Hara, Professor of Education, Dublin City University Institute of Education; President of the European Educational Research Association (EERA); and Irish Universities' nominee on the Teaching Council. As this book ably demonstrates teacher unions are now more necessary than ever - not just as a defence of teacher's interests and conditions of work but as a progressive voice in the midst of the heat and noise of neoliberal reform. The historical case histories in the collection show unions working in support of families and communities for a fairer and rounded education and bringing sense and reason in the policy process. The focus of the book is on the meaning of the teaching profession and what it means to be educated in Ireland but it has a broad and very important contemporary relevance. Stephen J Ball, Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology of Education, Institute of Education, University College London. This 150th Anniversary book is a tough-minded combination of the history of the Irish National Teachers Organisation and its struggles, put together with political analysis and a strong commitment to education. Carr and Beckett's approach makes fascinating reading, putting the current policy context of teachers in Ireland into sharp relief, linking it to long-term struggles for their professional recognition. Their argument for a strong role for teacher judgement and teacher professional activism in the face of narrow over-regulation of their work is internationally important for teaching as a profession, something the rest of the world can learn from this, very Irish history, politics and analysis. Marie Brennan, Extraordinary Professor, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Honorary Professor of Education,ã Victoria University, Melbourne; Adjunct Professor, University of South Australia. This is a book with an important message. It reminds us that teachers have long organised their work in ways that mediate relations between the governed and those who govern. This organising work sustains teacher's commitments to social justice and resources how they work towards preferred futures. Carr and Beckett trace teacher's organising work with reference to time, showing continuities between past and present. They map teacher's organising work with reference to social movements, revealing the space of intra- and inter-professional negotiation that makes `occupation' possible. And in pinpointing this interplay between time and space, memory and diverse commitments and claims for recognition and reward, they remind us that, in this present, teacher's organising work is still central to how we remake futures. Terri Seddon, Director of Research and Graduate Studies, Faculty of Education, La Trobe University.
In the whirlwind of educational policy changes, teacher union histories such as this one provide critical explanations for why teachers are caught in the web of the state apparatus, and how they worked to get out of them. Carr and Beckett have produced a very readable and important contribution to educational history with this work on the Irish National Teachers' Organization. Nina Bascia, Professor & Chair, Leadership, Higher & Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Carr and Beckett have created a treasure trove of artefacts, analyses, and articulations of the trajectories of teachers and a teacher union over time that is a major 'glocal' contribution to scholarship on the profession and its union representation. The text is at once empowering and enlightening, as well as a call to arms to teachers and their representatives 'to strive, to seek to find and not to yield', but to pursue and promote an education system that fosters the public good, raises the morale of the profession by releasing its agency and its professional soul from the de-professionalising shackles of 'regimes of control' to the detriment of teaching and learning, by cultivating an enabling sense of professional responsibility. Read it, be empowered and join the effort. Ciaran Sugrue, Professor of Education, School of Education, University College Dublin This scholarly and innovative publication interweaves history, theory and politics to analyse the policies adopted by the INTO and places them in a global context. It takes contemporary issues of accountability, teacher status and professionalism and shows how the Irish experience has relevance for modern debates. Pamela Munn, Professor Emerita of Curriculum Research, University of Edinburgh. All teachers, regardless of their union involvement, will find much in this book to stimulate intellectual and political conversation. Carr and Beckett use the anniversary of the Irish National Teachers Organisation to skilfully tease open connections between history, theory and politics which influence teachers' work today. Of significance in this archival documentary are the accounts of teachers' disquiet, resistance, protests and challenges. These provoke all of us involved in the teaching profession to consider the authors' 'rebuttal' of extant school policies which regulate and sideline teachers' professional work. Amanda Nuttall, formerly research-active teacher at White Laith Primary School Leeds now Senior Lecturer and Programme Coordinator in Primary Education at Leeds Trinity University.
In the whirlwind of educational policy changes, teacher union histories such as this one provide critical explanations for why teachers are caught in the web of the state apparatus, and how they worked to get out of them. Carr and Beckett have produced a very readable and important contribution to educational history with this work on the Irish National Teachers' Organization. Nina Bascia, Professor & Chair, Leadership, Higher & Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Carr and Beckett have created a treasure trove of artefacts, analyses, and articulations of the trajectories of teachers and a teacher union over time that is a major 'glocal' contribution to scholarship on the profession and its union representation. The text is at once empowering and enlightening, as well as a call to arms to teachers and their representatives 'to strive, to seek to find and not to yield', but to pursue and promote an education system that fosters the public good, raises the morale of the profession by releasing its agency and its professional soul from the de-professionalising shackles of 'regimes of control' to the detriment of teaching and learning, by cultivating an enabling sense of professional responsibility. Read it, be empowered and join the effort. Ciaran Sugrue, Professor of Education, School of Education, University College Dublin This scholarly and innovative publication interweaves history, theory and politics to analyse the policies adopted by the INTO and places them in a global context. It takes contemporary issues of accountability, teacher status and professionalism and shows how the Irish experience has relevance for modern debates. Pamela Munn, Professor Emerita of Curriculum Research, University of Edinburgh. All teachers, regardless of their union involvement, will find much in this book to stimulate intellectual and political conversation. Carr and Beckett use the anniversary of the Irish National Teachers Organisation to skilfully tease open connections between history, theory and politics which influence teachers' work today. Of significance in this archival documentary are the accounts of teachers' disquiet, resistance, protests and challenges. These provoke all of us involved in the teaching profession to consider the authors' 'rebuttal' of extant school policies which regulate and sideline teachers' professional work. Amanda Nuttall, formerly research-active teacher at White Laith Primary School Leeds now Senior Lecturer and Programme Coordinator in Primary Education at Leeds Trinity University.
Author Information
Lori Beckett, PhD was the inaugural Winifred Mercier Professor of Teacher Education at Leeds Metropolitan University, now retired, and works with the Vere Foster Trust. John Carr, MA (Ed) is the immediate past General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO), now retired, and chairs the Vere Foster Trust.
