Teacher Unions in Public Education

Chapter 1 Perspectives on Teacher Unions: History, Discourse, and Renewal

Chapter 2 Gender and Status: Ontario Teachers’ Associations in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3 Defending Teachers’ Rights and Promoting Public Education: Evolving and Emerging Union Strategies within a Globalized Neoliberal Context

Chapter 4 Remembering, Reimagining, and Reviving Social Justice Teacher Unionism

Chapter 5 Fragility and Volatility in Teacher Union—Governmental Relations

Chapter 6 Model Citizen or Bad Influence? The Contested Nature of Teachers’ Public Activism

Chapter 7 The Formal and Informal Contexts of Union Socialization

Chapter 8 Classroom, Community, and Contract: A New Framework for Building Moral Legitimacy and Member Activism in Teacher Unions

Chapter 9 Why and How a Teacher Union Supports Autonomous Teacher Professional Development in an Age of New Managerialism

Chapter 10 Crossing Boundaries to Support Strategic Foresight

Chapter 11 Education Reform in England and the Emergence of Social Movement Unionism: The National Union of Teachers in England

Chapter 12 The Teachers’ Trifecta: Democracy, Social Justice, Mobilization