Education Policy and the Australian Education Union Resisting Social Neoliberalism and Audit Technologies /

• Main Author: Vandenberg, Andrew (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Educational policy.; Education and state.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Child development.; Teaching.; Educational technology.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Early Childhood Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Educational Technology.

This book focuses on the politics of teacher resistance to the formation and implementation of neoliberal education policies in Australia. It argues that policies such as publishing examination test results online amounts to auditing teachers' work, and assumes incompetence from teachers, which...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Why did the ALP introduce the My School website?
• Chapter 3. Is Professional Unionism a Viable Model for Teachers' Unions?
• Chapter 4.Australian Education Union responses to the GERM?
• Chapter 5. Two Schools. Chapter 6. Conclusions.