Flip the System Changing Education from the Ground Up

Education is threatened on a global scale by forces of neoliberalism, through high stakes accountability, privatization and a destructive language of learning. In all respects, a GERM (Global Education Reform Movement) has erupted from international benchmark rankings such as PISA, TIMMS and PIRL, causing inequity, narrowing of the curriculum and teacher deprofessionalization on a truly global scale. In this book, teachers from around the world and other educational experts such as Andy Hargreaves, Ann Lieberman, Stephen Ball, Gert Biesta, Tom Bennett and many more, make the case to move away from this uneducational economic approach, to instead embrace a more humane, more democratic approach to education. This approach is called ‘flipping the system’, a move that places teachers exactly where they need to be - at the steering wheel of educational systems worldwide. This book will appeal to teachers and other education professionals around the world.

Foreword Preface Introduction Part 1: A global problem: Accountability, privatization and control Chapter 1: Testing towards Utopia: Performativity, Pedagogy and the Teaching ProfessionAlderik Visser Chapter 2: Measuring what doesn't matter: The Nonsense and sense of testingDick van der Wateren and Audrey Amrein Beardsly Chapter 3: Stephen Ball - On Neoliberalism and How it travelsInterview with René Kneyber Changing Education in Action in Cambodia: The Embattled TeachWilliam Brehm Chapter 4: The Effects of Accountability: A case study from IndonesiaArt Broekman Chapter 5: Thijs Jansen - On Quality and ProfessionalityInterview with René Kneyber Changing Education in Action in Georgia: ….Maia Chanksielli Part 2: A New Paradigm: Flip the system Chapter 6: Good Education and the Teacher: Reclaiming Educational ProfessionalismGert Biesta Chapter 7: Non-positional Teacher Leadership: Distributed leadership and self-efficacyJohn Bangs and David Frost Chapter 8: The teachers’ voice: teacher unions at the heart of a new democratic professionalismHoward Stevenson Chapter 9: Autonomy and Transparency: Two ideas gone badAndy Hargreaves Chapter 10: Teacher agency: What it is and why it mattersMark Priestley, Gert Biesta and Sarah Robinson Part 3: A Change to the system: Collective Autonomy Chapter 11: Whole systems approach: Professional Capital in SingaporePak Tee Ng Changing Education in Action in Finland: The Collaborating TeacherTim Walker Chapter 12: Teacher-powered Schools: Rising above education’s blame cultureKim Farris-Berg and Ed Dirkswager Changing Education in Action in Singapore: The Inquiring TeacherJohn Yeo Chapter 13: From top-down to inside-out: working in a teacher-led schoolLori Nazareno Changing Education in Action in Mexico: The Embracing TeacherElisa Guerra Part 4: A Question of Mindset: Supporting and activating teachers Chapter 14: Teacher Leadership: A reinvented teaching professionBarnett Berry, Noah Zeichner, and Rachel Evans Changing Education in Spain: The Inspiring Teacher Chapter 15: Arjan van der Meij - On Peer review and maker educationInterview with René Kneyber Chapter 16: Teacher Learning and Leadership Program: Professional Development for and by teachersAnn Lieberman, Carol Campbell and Anna Yashkina. Changing Education in Sweden: The Cared for TeacherEva Hartell Changing Education in Russia: The Informed TeacherArtiom Soloveychik Chapter 17: The Polite Revolution in Research and EducationTom Bennett Changing Education in Action in Korea: The Travelling TeacherJelmer Evers Interviews Chapter 18: Supporting and Empowering Teachers: The Role of School-Community PartnershipsHelen Janc Malone and Reuben Jacobson Changing Education in Action in Australia: The Connected TeacherMatt Esterman Conclusion: Flip the System: Trust, honor, finding purpose, support, collaborate and timeJelmer Evers and Rene Kneyber Notes on Contributors

Jelmer Evers is a history teacher in a secondary school and is involved in classroom innovation. Jelmer gives advice, workshops and guest lectures on new forms of pedagogy and is involved in designing a new innovative teacher training college. He writes columns and articles for educational magazines and has edited Het Alternatief. He was nominated Teacher of the Year 2012 and named one of The Netherlands' 23 'New Radicals' by national magazine Vrij Nederland in 2013. He was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize in 2014. René Kneyber is a mathematics teacher in secondary school. He has written popular books on classroom authority and discipline and has edited multiple high-profile books, including the Dutch book Het Alternatief and the Dutch translation of Embedding Formative Assessment by Dylan Wiliam. In 2015 he became member of the Dutch Education Council on royal commendation.