Handbook on Teachers’ Work

International Perspectives on Research and Practice

Nina Bascia, Rhiannon M. Maton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040417607
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

The Handbook on Teachers' Work brings together research and evidence-based authoritative writings from across the globe that explicitly theorizes and studies teachers' work.

Drawing on research from twelve countries across 6 continents, the chapters are grouped into themes that represent key issues related to work from global perspectives, including:

• The Political and Policy Contexts of Teachers' Work
• Teaching as an Occupation
• Diverse Teacher Identities and Roles
• Teaching as Collective and Relational Work; and
• Teaching and Activism

The volume explores the idea of teaching as an occupation with a history and trajectory that are shaped by political economies; historical progressions; organizational structures; social relations among educators, students, and others; teachers' career and labor patterns; their professional norms; and raced, gendered, classed, and culturally linked expectations of teachers and about public schooling.

This essential handbook will be of interest to teacher educators, policymakers, and students and researchers in the fields of teachers' work, curriculum theory, educational policy and politics, foundations of education, multicultural education and teacher education.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• INTRODUCTION TO SECTION I: POLICY, GOVERNMENTALITY, AND TEACHERS’ WORK
• 2 Beyond Policy Promises: Performance-Based Accountability in Education and Its Side-Effects on Teachers’ Work across the Globe
• 3 Racial Capitalism and the Politics of Class and Delivery Mode: A Survey of Secondary Teachers in Ontario, Canada
• 4 TEACHERS’ WORK AND SCHOOL MATERIAL CULTURE: How Teachers Configure the Role of Collective Didactic Devices in Argentina
• 5 TEACHER UNIONS AND POLICY-MAKING IN SOUTH AFRICA: Exclusion, Contestation and Collaboration
• 6 THE GOVERNANCE OF TEACHING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: The Case of Ontario, Canada
• 7 POLICY AGENCY AND ADVOCACY AS TEACHERS’ WORK IN THE USA
• INTRODUCTION TO SECTION II: Situating Teachers’ Work in Broader Contexts
• 8 Pursuing the School as a Workplace: Policies and Practices That Support and Sustain Teachers Over Time in the USA
• 9 MENTOR TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON MENTORING PRESERVICE TEACHERS IN CHILE
• 10 Striking a Balance: Examining the Interplay between Teacher Empowerment and Teacher Accountability in US Schools1
• 11 TEACHERS’ WORK: Lessons Learned on Three Continents
• 12 The Globalization of the Teacher Workforce
• INTRODUCTION TO SECTION III: Teacher Identity and Power Relations
• 13 CONCEPTUALIZING TEACHERS’ CARE WORK IN THE USA: Lessons from Black Women and Trans- and Non-binary Teachers
• 14 Uncomfortable Hierarchies and Structural Constraints: Teachers as Middle Managers of Paraeducators in the USA
• 15 Revisiting Gender and Class in Urban China: Undervalued Work of Migrant Teachers and Their Resistance
• 16 THE HAZARDS OF “POSITIVE ORGANIZATIONAL ENVIRONMENT”: Racialized Emotional Labour and Work in Teachers’ Lives in Canada
• INTRODUCTION TO SECTION IV: Teaching as Collective Work
• 17 Teachers and Their Colleagues: 50 Years Beyond Schoolteacher
• 18 Relationships of Knowledge and Practice: Teacher Learning in Communities1
• 19 Educator Organizations with Collectivist Social Justice Orientations in Canada and the Us: A Typology
• 20 TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL AUTHORITY AND BUREAUCRATIC CONTROL: The Case of Professional Learning Communities in the United States
• INTRODUCTION TO SECTION V: Teachers and Contestation
• 21 TEACHER ACTIVISM AS TEACHERS’ WORK: Perspectives on Teachers’ Work in Social Movements and Unions across the Americas
• 22 Making Black Lives Matter at School: Educators Working in Solidarity for Black Lives in the USA
• 23 NAVIGATING TERROR AND TRAUMA IN A CONSERVATIVE-CONTROLLED STATE: A 2024 Dispatch from Anti-Oppressive Public School Educators in Iowa, USA
• 24 TOWARD EQUITY-CENTERED TEACHING IN A CENTRALIZED, MERITOCRATIC SYSTEM: A Tale from Singapore
• SECTION VI Final Words
• 25 TEACHERS’ WORTH
• 26 Final Words
• List of Contributors
• Index