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Title: The Teacher Insurgency: A Strategic and Organizing Perspective
Language: English
Authors: Casey, Leo
Source: Harvard Education Press. 2020.
Availability: Harvard Education Press. 8 Story Street First Floor, Cambridge, MA 02138. Tel: 888-437-1437; Tel: 617-495-3432; Fax: 978-348-1233; e-mail: hepg@harvard.edu; Web site: http://hepg.org/hep-home/home
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 304
Publication Date: 2020
Document Type: Book
Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Activism, Teacher Strikes, Unions, Labor Relations, Public School Teachers, Collective Bargaining, Labor Problems
ISBN: 978-1-68253-555-4
Abstract: In "The Teacher Insurgency," Leo Casey addresses how the unexpected wave of recent teacher strikes has had a dramatic impact on American public education, teacher unions, and the larger labor movement. Casey explains how this uprising was not only born out of opposition to government policies that underfunded public schools and deprofessionalized teaching, but was also rooted in deep-seated changes in the economic climate, social movements, and, most importantly, educational politics. With an eye to maintaining the momentum of the insurgency, the author examines four key strategic questions that have arisen from the strikes: the relationship of mobilization to organizing; the relationship between protests and direct action; the conditions under which teacher strikes are most likely to be successful; and the importance of "bargaining for the common good." More broadly, Casey examines how to organize teachers for collective action, focusing on four discourses of teaching: teaching as nurturance; as professionalism; as labor and craft; and as a vocation of democratic intellectual work. Casey's analysis is located within a larger examination of organizing teachers for collective action. He draws upon social science and historical literature in addressing these questions and examines this wave of activism not just as a phenomenon of labor, but in the context of the broader universe of social movements.
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Entry Date: 2023
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