ERIC Number: EJ950196
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
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Close Encounters of a Congenial Kind
MacBeath, John
Cambridge Journal of Education, v41 n3 p369-381 2011
This paper provides a co-director's and co-author's review of and commentary on research carried out with Maurice Galton over the past decade. Its principal focus is the burden that recent education policies and ascent of a deleterious culture of performativity have inflicted on teachers' professional and domestic lives. It reports on four studies conducted for the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and two books: "Teachers under pressure" and "Re-inventing schools, reforming teaching". The latter offers alarming, if not surprising, insights into the process of national policy-making. It goes on to relate mutual experiences of recent work in Hong Kong and draws attention to Maurice Galton's contributions to education internationally. The keys to this paper, however, are the persistence, perspicacity and Maurice's personal concern for teachers and children, that have enabled the insights and injustices uncovered in these studies to be published.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Teaching (Occupation), Accountability, Teaching Conditions, Job Performance, School Culture, Politics of Education, Government School Relationship, Elementary School Teachers, Inclusion, Influence of Technology, Social Change, Global Approach, Educational Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Inservice Teacher Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Adult Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong; United Kingdom
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