Reforming Teaching Globally by Maria Teresa Tatto, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

(Originally Published in 2007 by Symposium Books)This book seeks to raise the discussion of globalisation's effects on teacher education, development and work, and its reforms and institutions, to a more theoretical and analytical level, and to provide specific examples in thecomparative tradition to illustrate teacher policy in the context of education systems' widespread variability andcomplexity. The contributors critically analyse current arrangements in teacher education, development andwork, and highlight the forces that enter in this contested terrain, the sources of conflict and convergence, and theimplication of these for teaching and learning, and for indigenous forms of knowledge and knowledge constructionin the globalisation era. CONTENTS: Maria Teresa Tatto. Introduction: International Comparisons and theGlobal Reform of Teaching. PART I: REFORMS EMPHASISING INCREASED CONTROL OVER TEACHERS'WORK AND PERFORMANCE. Lynn Paine & Yanping Fang. Dilemmas in Reforming China s Teaching:assuring 'quality' in professional development; Sigrid Blömeke. The Impact of Global Tendencies on the GermanTeacher Education System; Kiril Bankov. The Influence of the World Educational Changes on the TeacherEducation System in Bulgaria; Allan Pitman. Ontario, Canada: the state asserts its voice or accountability supersedesresponsibility; Dorothea Anagnostopoulos. The New Accountability and Teachers' Work in Urban HighSchools in the USA. PART II: REFORMS EMPHASISING TEACHERS' PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGEAND DISCRETION. Maria Teresa Tatto, Sylvia Schmelkes, Maria del Refugio Guevara & Medardo Tapia. Mexico's Educational Reform and the Reshaping of Teachers' Development and Work; Beatrice Avalos. Teachersand Accountability: the case of Chile; Anne M. Hooghart. TeacherAccountability and Curriculum Reform in Japan: an analysis of the 'RainbowPlan'; Clementina Acedo. Teacher Education and Accountability Policies forImproving Teaching Quality in the Philippines; Martial Dembele & JohnSchwille. Accountability in the Context of Teacher Empowerment: theGuinean Experience. | Reforming Teaching Globally by Maria Teresa Tatto, Paperback | Indigo Chapters