Comparative Politics of Education Teachers Unions and Education Systems Around the World

Name: Comparative Politics of Education Teachers Unions and Education Systems Around the World
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ISBN: 9781316731888

ISBN-10: 131673188X

ISBN-13: 9781316731888

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Authors: Terry M. Moe, Susanne Wiborg

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Public education is critically important to the human capital, social well-being, and economic prosperity of nations. It is also an intensely political realm of public policy that is heavily shaped by power and special interests. Yet political scientists rarely study education, and education researchers rarely study politics. This volume attempts to change that by promoting the development of a coherent, thriving field on the comparative politics of education. As an opening wedge, the authors carry out an 11-nation comparative study of the political role of teachers unions, showing that as education systems everywhere became institutionalized, teachers unions pursued their interests by…

Book details

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/14/2016
Binding: E-Book
Language: English

Susanne Wiborg isSenior Lecturer in Comparative Education at Institute of Education, London University. Her research, which includes areas such as comparative history of education and Scandinavian politics of education, is published in journals such asScandinavian Journal of Educational Research,Comparative Education,andLondon Review of Education. She is also the editor of the Danish Year Book of History of Education.