Teachers undefeated : how global education reform has failed to crush the spirit of educators /

"Teachers Undefeated is about how teachers continue to do the best for their students. They do so despite clumsy interventions from governments who have no idea how difficult they have made school life. They do so despite the fact that they are pressurized into producing dubious outcomes and ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Berry, Jon, 1953- (Author), Berry, Jon (Author)
Other Authors: Blower, Christine (writer of foreword)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Trentham Books is an imprint of UCL IOE Press, 2016
London : Trentham Books, 2016
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 The GERM: What it is and where it comes from 1
  • 2 The state we're in and how we got here: How the GERM took hold 7
  • 3 Speaking truth to power? Whose voices are here? 16
  • 4 The horror, the horror: Tested to destruction 20
  • 5 You lookin' at me? Or qui custodiet ipsos custodes? 30
  • 6 Ten teaching tales to brighten the gloom: Hosepipes, the Enigma code and the execution of Anne Boleyn 43
  • 7 Can school leaders let the caged bird sing? 56
  • 8 Doing it for themselves: How teachers can take greater control of the curriculum 67
  • 9 Undefeated - but how do we become GERM free? 78