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Critical Politics of Teachers’ Work: An Australian Perspectivereviewed by Brian Yusko - 2003 Title: Critical Politics of Teachers’ Work: An Australian Perspective Author(s): John Smyth Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, New York ISBN: 0820449156, Pages: , Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com In the current United States educational system, there are many
examples of centralization of curriculum and instruction: the
creation of national and state curriculum standards, the
development of standards and instruments for assessing classroom
teaching, and recent legislation requiring the use of student
testing to increase school and teacher accountability. Such
changes naturally lead to questions about the rationale behind
these changes and their intended and unintended consequences in
schools and classrooms. Anyone interested in such questions
should read Critical Politics of Teachers’ Work: An
Australian Perspective by John Smyth. Smyth uses a
“labor process” lens, grounded in critical theory, to
examine policy changes in the Australian education context over the
past twenty years. He examines policy decisions from the
perspective of teachers’ work: how it is organized and
how issues of power and control over the teachers’ work play
out in educational policy. Although Smyth goes too far in
branding every educational reform that comes from outside schools
as a form of teacher oppression, his argument that... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Brian Yusko
Cleveland State University E-mail Author BRIAN YUSKO is Assistant Professor in Curriculum and Foundations at Cleveland State University.
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