Teachers' Work in a Globalizing Economy

by John Smyth, Alastair Dow, Robert Hattam

Extended critical case studies provide a tangible working expression of the labour process of teaching, showing how teachers are simultaneously experiencing significant changes to their work, as well as responding in ways that actively shape these processes. For teachers and researchers, this book shows what processes are at work in the global economy which impact on, and sometimes control, the role of the teacher. It also reveals how teachers accommodate, resist or redefine their working circumstances, and explores methods researchers might employ in order to increase our understanding and knowledge of the effect of globalization on teaching.

240 pages

First published November 1, 1999

About the author

Research professor of education at the University of Ballarat. He is author/editor of fifteen books including, most recently, Teachers in the Middle: Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent
Years of Schooling (with Peter McInerney, Peter Lang Publishing, 2007) and “Dropping Out” Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School (with Robert Hattam and others, Peter Lang Publishing, 2004). His research interests include policy ethnographies of schooling, issues of social justice, community renewal, and
policy sociology of students’ lives and teachers’ work