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4 produkter
4 produkter
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 20251 226 kr
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The Teacher and the State explores the dynamic relationship between the state and teachers using a theory of global cultural dynamics. Through a comparison of eight Nordic and East Asian regions, the authors examine how interactions between teachers and the state influenced the teaching profession, educational policies, reforms, and social capacities.The book explores the responses of regional and national actors to international reforms and policy discussions within a globally influenced education system. The authors illustrate how the teaching profession has been pivotal in shaping national identity, generating human capital, and more recently, enhancing a society s ability to adapt to change. In a world where global forces can significantly impact national education, they examine how regional and national actors respond uniquely to globally spreading reforms and transnational policy dialogues.This is a valuable resource for graduate courses in comparative education, international politics, and teacher education. It provides extensive historical, qualitative, and quantitative data linked to core theories, and critiques the impact of globalization on academic research, engaging with global governance theories to refine assumptions about organizational power in a globalized world.
Del 50 - International Perspectives on Education and Society
Teacher and The State
A Comparative Analysis of Nordic and East Asian Nations
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 129 kr
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The Teacher and the State explores the dynamic relationship between the state and teachers using a theory of global cultural dynamics. Through a comparison of eight Nordic and East Asian regions, the authors examine how interactions between teachers and the state influenced the teaching profession, educational policies, reforms, and social capacities.The book explores the responses of regional and national actors to international reforms and policy discussions within a globally influenced education system. The authors illustrate how the teaching profession has been pivotal in shaping national identity, generating human capital, and more recently, enhancing a society’s ability to adapt to change. In a world where global forces can significantly impact national education, they examine how regional and national actors respond uniquely to globally spreading reforms and transnational policy dialogues.This is a valuable resource for graduate courses in comparative education, international politics, and teacher education. It provides extensive historical, qualitative, and quantitative data linked to core theories, and critiques the impact of globalization on academic research, engaging with global governance theories to refine assumptions about organizational power in a globalized world.
E-bok
Engelska, 20251 222 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
The Teacher and the State explores the dynamic relationship between the state and teachers using a theory of global cultural dynamics. Through a comparison of eight Nordic and East Asian regions, the authors examine how interactions between teachers and the state influenced the teaching profession, educational policies, reforms, and social capacities.The book explores the responses of regional and national actors to international reforms and policy discussions within a globally influenced education system. The authors illustrate how the teaching profession has been pivotal in shaping national identity, generating human capital, and more recently, enhancing a society s ability to adapt to change. In a world where global forces can significantly impact national education, they examine how regional and national actors respond uniquely to globally spreading reforms and transnational policy dialogues.This is a valuable resource for graduate courses in comparative education, international politics, and teacher education. It provides extensive historical, qualitative, and quantitative data linked to core theories, and critiques the impact of globalization on academic research, engaging with global governance theories to refine assumptions about organizational power in a globalized world.
Del 54 - International Perspectives on Education and Society
Teacher and The State
Understanding How Global Initiatives Can Fail Teachers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 160 kr
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Dominant global policy discourses rely on overly generalized assumptions about “the teacher”, obscuring the historical, cultural, and political specificity that structures teaching across national settings. The Teacher and The State: Understanding How Global Initiatives Can Fail Teachers rethinks the relationship between teachers, the state, and globalization. The detailed analysis of teaching as a mass profession shows how it is shaped by interactions between discourses on the global stage and the forces within national education fields. This work builds on existing literature but presents a direct theoretical challenge to re-imagine how we can understand the teacher.Rather than taking for granted what a teacher is, the authors reflect on how the teacher is imagined, foregrounding the historical, linguistic, and social constructions that underpin educational research and reform. Through this lens, the book interrogates key concepts such as globalization, teacher agency, mass schooling, and digitalization, showing how global scripts often fail to capture the plurality of teachers’ roles and the lived realities of their work. Addressing the profound transformations brought about by digitalization, AI, and shifting global agendas, chapters argue that these developments intensify longstanding tensions around autonomy, professionalism, and the purposes of schooling.Combining theoretical reflection with empirically grounded insight, The Teacher and The State develops a nuanced framework for understanding how global initiatives are translated, resisted, and reshaped within national education fields. This is an essential volume for anyone seeking to understand why universal reform models so often fail teachers.