Flip the System

<p>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. </p><p>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 from this uneducational economic approach, to instead embrace a more humane, more democratic approach to education. This approach is called ‘flipping the system’, a move that places teachers exactly where they need to be - at the steering wheel of educational systems worldwide.</p><p>This book will appeal to teachers and other education professionals around the world.</p> <p>Foreword</p><p>Preface</p><p>Introduction</p><p>Part 1: A global problem: Accountability, privatization and control</p><p>Chapter 1: Testing towards Utopia: Performativity, Pedagogy and the Teaching Profession</p><p>Chapter 2: Measuring what doesn't matter: The Nonsense and sense of testing</p><p>Chapter 3: Stephen Ball - On Neoliberalism and How it travels</p><p>Changing Education in Action in Cambodia: The Embattled Teach</p><p>Chapter 4: The Effects of Accountability: A case study from Indonesia</p><p>Chapter 5: Thijs Jansen - On Quality and Professionality</p><p>Changing Education in Action in Georgia: ….</p><p>Part 2: A New Paradigm: Flip the system</p><p>Chapter 6: Good Education and the Teacher: Reclaiming Educational Professionalism</p><p>Chapter 7: Non-positional Teacher Leadership: Distributed leadership and self-efficacy</p><p>Chapter 8: The teachers’ voice: teacher unions at the heart of a new democratic professionalism</p><p>Chapter 9: Automony and Transparency: Two ideas gone bad</p><p>Chapter 10: Teacher agency: What it is and why it matters</p><p>Part 3: A Change to the system: Collective Autonomy</p><p>Chapter 11: Whole systems approach: Professional Capital in Singapore</p><p>Changing Education in Action in Finland: The Collaborating Teacher</p><p>Chapter 12: Teacher-powered Schools: Rising above education’s blame culture</p><p>Changing Education in Action in Singapore: The Inquiring Teacher</p><p>Chapter 13: From top-down to inside-out: working in a teacher-led school</p><p>Changing Education in Action in Mexico: The Embracing Teacher</p><p>Part 4: A Question of Mindset: Supporting and activating teachers</p><p>Chapter 14: Teacher Leadership: A reinvented teaching profession</p><p>Changing Education in Spain: The Inspiring Teacher</p><p>Chapter 15: Arjan van der Meij - On Peer review and maker education</p><p>Chapter 16: Teacher Learning and Leadership Program: Professional Development for and by teachers</p><p>Chapter 17: The Polite Revolution in Research and Education</p><p>Changing Education in Action in Korea: The Travelling Teacher</p><p>Chapter 18: Supporting and Empowering Teachers: The Role of School-Community Partnerships</p><p>Changing Education in Action in Australia: The Connected Teacher</p><p>Conclusion: Flipping the Education System</p>