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Teachers at the Table - Voice, Agency, and Advocacy in Educational Policymaking (Paperback)
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Teachers at the Table - Voice, Agency, and Advocacy in Educational Policymaking (Paperback)
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Teachers at the Table is based on the simple premise that policy
matters in education and teachers matter to policy. Policy reflects
and shapes society's beliefs about schools, teachers, children,
learning, and society, as well as the power structures embedded in
our communities and decision-making processes. If policy is a
public response to perceived social problems, it matters who is at
the table when the problems are defined, the agendas set, and the
policy itself designed. Although teachers may be central to the
implementation of education policy, they are marginal to the design
of it, especially around issues of teaching and learning. In short,
teachers are not at the table. This is important because the lack
of teacher voice in educational policymaking disconnects the goals
and design of education policy from the actual lived challenges of
implementing it. This book draws on a qualitative case study with
both practicing and pre-service teachers involved in a policy
advocacy professional development program. Findings from the study
illustrate norms and routines (the nature of teachers' work,
hierarchy of authority and professional status) that act as
barriers to teacher involvement in policy creation. The book then
follows with clear examples of teacher "pushback" against these
same norms and details the conditions under which teachers can
interact in authentic ways with decision making structures in
schools and policy. Teachers at the Table is a unique examination
into these dynamics, informing the critical efforts of teacher
leaders to participate in educational policy creation, and helps us
to understand, and more importantly, act upon the structures around
teachers to better support their involvement in policymaking - with
the ultimate goal of producing better educational policy that is
more relevant and responsive to the youth, educators, families, and
communities it serves.
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