Empowering Teachers and Democratising Schooling

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Empowering Teachers and Democratising Schooling is written by Keith Heggart and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9811944644 (ISBN 10) and 9789811944642 (ISBN 13).

This edited book brings together teachers and education academics who are committed to education about, for and through democracy. It presents a diverse range of viewpoints about the challenges facing educators working across different sectors and discusses ways to challenge issues like neoliberalism, excessive managerialism and accountability and privatisation. It also engages with the times that education has, and continues, to fail students. This book outlines both logistical and ideological challenges which educators committed to democracy face and describes innovative approaches they have adopted, including networking, the use of social media and digital tools and extending their reach beyond their local communities to international audiences. It encourages conversations about how educators and academics might re-commit to education for democracy and generate further avenues for discussion and action by educators and academics.