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Trade union rights are human rights 9 October 2020 Africa: Governments and teacher unions highlight benefits of collaboration
Teachers’ professional issues and government-teacher union collaboration were at the heart of an online seminar on the Future of the Teaching Profession in Africa for 2020.
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Union growth 29 September 2020 “The Movement Against Pension Reform in France: Paradoxes of Teacher Militancy” by Laurent Frajerman.
Laurent Frajerman
Teachers in France, like in many countries, are simultaneously leading a social movement and facing the prospect of a lowering of their professional status, which would become more acute as a result of the pension reform undertaken by the French government in 2019. But their ‘uber-militancy’ (the use of strikes...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 17 June 2020 “COVID-19 crisis: the education situation in Italy”, by Rossella Benedetti.
Rossella Benedetti
In Italy, the first COVID-19 cases were discovered at the end of January. It was another month before the spread of the virus forced us to suspend face-to-face lessons. At the beginning of March, teachers, in lockdown at home, began distance teaching, while administrative, technical and cleaning staff still had...
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Equity and inclusion 12 June 2020 “Getting children back to school after the COVID-19 closures: how EI's child labour projects empowered teachers and their unions”, by Nora Wintour.
Nora Wintour
In the research study, conducted in 2018 and 2019 “EI/AOb Child Labour Projects: Transnational best practices and union impacts”, I examined how professional training programmes have enhanced teachers capacity to attract and retain children in school through participatory education techniques and how as a result of the child labour projects,...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 June 2020 ‘You can work from home if the situation at home allows’: Teaching in times of the pandemic, by Josiah Taru.
Josiah Taru
The closure of schools has been commended as one of the most effective mitigatory measures to arrest the rapid spread of Covid-19 so far. Millions of learners and educators have been forced to continue learning through emergency remote instruction that involves online teaching. This presents novel challenges for educators in...
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Trade union rights are human rights 20 May 2020 “A Plan to Safely Reopen America’s Schools and Communities”, by Randi Weingarten.
Randi Weingarten
The American Federation of Teachers has released a detailed road map that, in the absence of a COVID-19 vaccine, charts a path to safely and responsibly reopen school buildings and other institutions crucial to the well-being and economic vitality of our communities.
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Trade union rights are human rights 19 May 2020 “In Africa, making use of the Ebola epidemic experience to combat coronavirus”, by Kadiatou Bah and Salifou Camara.
Salifou Camara, Kadiatou Bah
Guineans have drawn lessons from Ebola, which has killed more than 2,500 people in our country. The country had neglected the disease when the first cases began in 2013 in a forest region around 900 kilometers from the capital. The first victims were not isolated, which encouraged contamination until an...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 May 2020 “Hong Kong and Its Education Under the Threat of Covid-19”, by IP Kin-yuen.
IP Kin-yuen
This is not the first time that Hong Kong faces a coronavirus attack. The bitter experience of SARS in 2003 which cost 299 lives (including eight medical staff) was horrible and unforgettable. That was the reason why HK citizens responded so quickly to the outbreak of a similar coronavirus and...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 May 2020 “Corona Crisis and School Reopening in Germany”
Marlis Tepe
An interview with Marlis Tepe, president of the German education union (GEW).
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 April 2020 “We are one world”, by Lily Eskelsen García.
Lily Eskelsen García
As COVID-19 pandemic continues spreading around the world, educators are being called on to teach, reach and comfort their students and guide frantic parents. Stories shared by my EI colleagues fill me with hope. We are all in this together. We will get through this crisis together.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 April 2020 “COVID-19 and Education in South Korea”, by Hyunsu Hwang.
Hyunsu Hwang
COVID-19 is a world-wide fear and a tremendous threat in every area of our lives. It affects everyone in the world. The scenes being captured look very familiar to us in a sense. They look like scenes from movies, but sadly this is a real and unprecedented situation in human...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 April 2020 "Teachers rising to the challenge of a global pandemic", by Steffen Handal.
Steffen Handal
In Norway, schools and kindergartens have been closed since the middle of March. Only children whose parents have a socio-critical profession have been attending. The Government has decided that early childhood institutions will open April 20th and grade 1 - 4 one week later.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 7 April 2020 “How the COVID-19 crisis may impact higher education unions’ work and strategy on casualisation”, by Rob Copeland.
Rob Copeland
In response to the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, unions have been working hard to ensure that governments mitigate the effects on workers’ jobs, salaries and working conditions. During this ongoing crisis, workers in so-called ‘non-standard forms of employment’[1] such as those on zero-hours contracts, in agency work and in ‘bogus self-employment’...
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Union growth 23 March 2020 “The need for strategy and teacher activism in transnational governance”, by Tore Bernt Sorensen.
Tore Bernt Sorensen
Today, the OECD launches “Teachers and School Leaders as Valued Professionals” as the second volume of the TALIS 2018 Results. Being the largest international research programme focused on teachers and school leaders, TALIS is a prime example of how transnational education governance offers opportunities as well as challenges for educators...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 October 2019 “Education – Changing the World”, by David Edwards
David Edwards
The Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF/FCE) devoted the most recent edition of its magazine, “Perspectives” to education and democracy. It covers the challenges to democracy in Canada, North America and the world. It also reports on education initiatives that have been developed in Canada to support and re-enforce democratic values and...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 August 2019 “Trade Union Action in a Country in Transition towards New Public Management” by Laurent Frajerman.
Laurent Frajerman
The neoliberal doctrine of New Public Management (NPM) is the essential reference for education policies all over the world. It seeks to destroy the professional autonomy of teachers.
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28 August 2019 Education: a powerful tool for combatting climate change.
A Guide For Education Unions And Educators.
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Trade union rights are human rights 23 July 2019 “Climate change action: organising to win”, by Adam Lincoln.
Adam Lincoln
As education trade unionists gather together for the 8th EI World Congress, it is clear that working people and students are on the front lines of climate change. Already 83 million climate-related refugees have fled from disaster. 72 million jobs are threatened. Climate change affects our brothers and sisters –...
“Climate change action: organising to win”, by Adam Lincoln.