AERA has published its program for the 2010 annual meeting. The online, searchable program is available at here.
The SIG program is downloadable here SIG programme – AERA 2010 – it has full details of all SIG sessions, plus further details of sessions related to teacher unions.
All these sessions, both SIG and non-SIG, look excellent and we very much hope to see colleagues at AERA supporting teacher union research from around the world.
Please note the SIG social event following our business meeting on Monday 3rd May – details available here, and via Twitter, nearer the time.
[If you have details of any other sessions of interest to SIG members, or comments/suggestions for SIG activities at annual meeting, please post comments here]
Posted in: Annual Meeting.
Dr Jill Pinkney Pastrana has been elected as the SIG’s new Secretary/Treasurer. Jill is an associate professor at University of Wisconson – Eau Claire – more details here.
She has done much fascinating work, not least her recent work in Chile which she will be reporting at AERA 2010 and in a forthcoming issue of Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor.
Jill is keen to meet SIG colleagues during the Conference and at our Business Meeting. She is particularly interested in learning how we can offer members relevant services to meet the SIG’s aims.
This is excellent news for the SIG, and everyone involved looks forward to working with Jill in the future.
Posted in: General SIG news.
The online, searchable version of the 2010 AERA program has not yet been made available. This has been delayed and should be available from mid-February.
As soon as it is available we will publish a full list of all SIG and teacher union-related sessions – with dates, times and venues etc.
Posted in: Annual Meeting.
SIG members and friends may be interested in the work of the following network:
The Education Solidarity Network has been founded by education trade unions from across the globe as part of our campaign against the global marketisation and privatisation of education.
The Network comprises those unions who have signed the International Agreement on this site, numbering more than half a million education workers. More unions are signing all the time. The signatories currently include:
UCU (UK): www.ucu.org.uk
NTEU (Australia): www.nteu.org.au
CAUT (Canada): www.caut.ca
DM (Denmark): www.dm.dk
SNESup (France): www.snesup.fr
UNSA (France): www.unsa.org
GEW (Germany): www.gew.de
IFUT (Ireland): www.ifut.ie
ITU (Israel): www.itu.org.il
PFUUPE (Palestine)
CSIF (Spain): www.csi-csif.es
FLC-CGIL (Italy): Cgil.it
TEU (New Zealand): www.teu.ac.nz
SULF (Sweden): www.sulf.se
LIZDA (Latvia): www.lizda.lv
PTUZ (Zimbabwe)
NUT (UK): www.teachers.org.uk
EIS (UK): www.eis.org.uk
NASUWT (UK): www.teachersunion.org.uk
Posted in: Campaigns.
Jan 18th, 2010
by Howard.
SIG member Joce Jesson (Principal lecturer, Critical Studies in Education, University of Auckland) is planning a sabbatical to Canada in July – September 2010. During this time she will be researching the effects of neo-liberal demands on the re-shaping of academic work. She would be very interested in talking with others about this. Contact her at j.jesson@auckland.ac.nz
Posted in: Networking.
Tagged: Academic Labor · Academic work
Jan 15th, 2010
by Howard.
In addition to SIG activities previously published we have been informed by SIG member Linda Bacon of the NEA that work undertaken by NEA as part of its C.A.R.E. initiative (Culture, Abilities, Resilience and Effort) to support the closing of achievement gaps will be reported at AERA 2010.
A paper titled “Investigating Cultural Competance and Relevance in Teaching and Teacher Education” will be presented by Dr Denise Alston (Senior Program Specialist in the NEA’s Human and Civil Rights Department) and Dr Noni D. Mendoza-Reis ( Department Chair for Educational Leadership at the San Jose State University College of Education).
At present we do not know the timing of any presentations – as soon as we do we will publicise them here [this should be by the end of January]
For more information about this work follow these links:
C.A.R.E.: Strategies for Closing Achievement Gaps
NEA on Achievement Gaps
NEA Priority Schools Campaign
You can also download a flyer about C.A.R.E here – CARE Flyer.
Posted in: Annual Meeting, Resources.
Tagged: Teacher unions; education reform; education policy
Jan 15th, 2010
by Howard.
SIG member Cindy Rottmann has recently had published an article in teacher unions and social justice in the Canadian Journal of Education.
‘Organized Agents: Canadian Teacher Unions as Alternative Sites for Social Justice Activism’ appears in the Canadian Journal of Education 31, 4 (2008) 975-1014.
You can download the article here – CJE31-4-Rottmann
Posted in: Publications.
Tagged: teacher unions; social justice unionism
Jan 14th, 2010
by Howard.
Routledge have just published a new book – Union Learning Representatives: Challenges and Opportunities, edited by Alex Alexandrou. The book is based on articles to the recent special issue of the Journal of In-Service Education, guest edited by Alex, and focused on the work of ULRs.
The book is currently available at a discounted rate – see flyer for details.
Posted in: Publications, Resources.
Jan 10th, 2010
by Howard.
In 2007 several scholars in the UK produced an ‘annotated bibliography’ that brought together a range of references relating to teachers’ work, teacher professionalism and teacher professional development. The bibliography is titled ‘Changing Teacher Roles, Identities and Professionalism’.
The work is an excellent resource for those researching issues of central concern to the SIG. Please download it here – Teachers work – bibliog.
Of course the list is now dated, and it also has particular emphases. If there are items you think might be of interest to other SIG members – why not add them here using the ‘comment’ facility?
Posted in: Resources.
Jan 10th, 2010
by Howard.
Many SIG members will be aware of the web-based campaign – ’Teacher Solidarity’ . This provides the very latest information about teachers and teacher union struggles from across the world. The site is available here.
Posted in: Resources.