Howard Stevenson is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham. He has researched extensively in the area of education trade unions, including undertaking work for Education International. He is co-author of Lessons in Organising with Gawain Little, Ellie Sharp and David Wilson.
Written by Howard Stevenson
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 September 2023 Teaching in an age of crises: rediscovering the importance of dignity
Howard Stevenson
In 1968, Martin Luther King addressed striking sanitation workers in Memphis, but his words will resonate with teachers around the world today: “. . . whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth”. Tackling what...
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Leading the profession 20 March 2023 Lessons in organising: union renewal and the war on teachers
Howard Stevenson
How can unions engage in a genuine renewal process and build union power to address union members’ needs in a fast changing political environment?
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Leading the profession 5 October 2021 Education unions leading in a pandemic: the reality behind the headlines
Howard Stevenson
World Teachers’ Day 2021 is an opportunity to mark the extraordinary achievements of education workers who have worked through the pandemic, and also to acknowledge the difficult work done by teachers that is ongoing as they support young people to face a future that has been reshaped by a global...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 16 September 2020 “Teachers taking the lead to effect real change: a once-in-a-generation opportunity”, by Howard Stevenson
Howard Stevenson
These are the most extraordinary times. At the start of 2020, almost nobody could have anticipated the extent, and the manner, in which the world has been turned upside down by a virus that has taken hundreds of thousands of lives and left nobody unaffected.
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Leading the profession 19 September 2018 “Education unions: vital to meeting the professional needs of educators”, by Howard Stevenson
Howard Stevenson
Many countries face huge problems recruiting educators to work in schools, colleges and universities and creating the working conditions that retain them in that work. Research studies also show that educators rarely get access to the type of high quality professional development they need to be as effective in their...
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Union growth 28 March 2018 The UK University Strike – union renewal in action, by Howard Stevenson.
Howard Stevenson
Over the last few years I have researched and written a good deal about ‘union renewal’ – the process by which unions (re-)connect with their grassroots and create vibrant, inclusive and collective cultures that empower members to be the educators they want to be, working in the systems they aspire...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 21 November 2017 #WDR2018 Reality Check #4: Realizing education’s promise: teachers are the solution, not the problem.
Howard Stevenson
The World Bank’s 2018 world development report, with its focus on education and the need ‘to realize education’s promise’, is a welcome, if perhaps surprising, step forward. The report scores highly on intent, but it must work with teachers, not against them, if the report’s ambitions are to become a...
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Union growth 1 June 2017 Teacher union renewal: developing the power of the profession
Howard Stevenson
The challenges that face teachers often look very similar around the world. Global league tables are often behind the relentless pressure to drive test scores up, whilst the forces of global economic competition explain a race to the bottom on teachers’ working conditions. Teachers experience ever rising workloads, but perhaps...
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Worlds of Education 6 December 2016 Turkish educators after the coup: ‘We will win’.Turkish educators after the coup: ‘We will win’.
Howard Stevenson
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Worlds of Education 22 June 2016 Collective bargaining – the real teachers’ voice.Collective bargaining – the real teachers’ voice.
Howard Stevenson