Flip the system: changing education from the ground up

Education is threatened on a global scale by forces of neoliberalism, through high stakes accountability, privatization and a destructive language of learning. In all respects, a GERM (Global Education Reform Movement) has erupted from international benchmark rankings such as PISA, TIMMS and PIRL, causing inequity, narrowing of the curriculum and teacher deprofessionalization on a truly global scale. In this book, teachers from around the world and other educational experts such as Andy Hargreaves, Ann Lieberman, Stephen Ball, Gert Biesta, Tom Bennett and many more, make the case to move away.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I A Global Problem: Accountability, Privatization and Control; Chapter 1 Testing towards Utopia: Performativity, Pedagogy and the Teaching Profession; Chapter 2 Measuring What Doesn't Matter: The Nonsense and Sense of Testing and Accountability; Chapter 3 On Neoliberalism and How It Travels: Interview with Stephen Ball; Vignette 1 Changing Education in Action in Cambodia: The Embattled Teacher; Chapter 4 The Effects of Accountability: A Case Study from Indonesia.

Vignette 2 Changing Education in Action in Georgia: The Conflicted TeacherChapter 5 On Quality and Professionalism: Interview with Thijs Jansen; PART II A New Paradigm: Flip the System; Chapter 6 Good Education and the Teacher: Reclaiming Educational Professionalism; Chapter 7 Non-Positional Teacher Leadership: Distributed Leadership and Self-Efficacy; Chapter 8 The Teachers' Voice: Teacher Unions at the Heart of a New Democratic Professionalism; Chapter 9 Automony and Transparency: Two Good Ideas Gone Bad; Chapter 10 Teacher Agency: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?

PART III Changing the System: C…