The World Yearbook of Education 2025 analyzes teacher policies and the governance of the teaching profession in the contemporary context of major societal changes and globalizing processes.
The first volume dedicated to an overview of globalized teacher policies and their implications for the status of the teaching profession across the world, this book reflects the ambition to advance the debate on the challenges and opportunities associated with the teaching profession. It recognizes that teacher policy is situated at the crossroads of three logics that have changed and become more complex due to globalization processes since the 1970s: the logic of teacher policy regulation has shifted from state-centric government toward pluriscalar global governance; the logic of employment relations has shifted to a flexibility paradigm; the logic of teacher education has shifted from the transmission of knowledge in teacher education to teachers lifelong learning. In line with the objective to analyze the governance of the teaching profession in the contemporary context of major societal changes and globalizing processes, this book is organized into three parts, focusing on:
teacher policies as global governance and public policy; teacher labor markets, employment relations, and careers and the institutional transformations in the world of work and employment; and the reconfiguration of teachers work and the learning of teachers
Its contributors use different methodological approaches to draw on a range of case studies and analyses of national, regional, and global patterns. A timely and important contribution to discussions of the future of the teaching profession across the world, the World Yearbook of Education 2025 is ideal reading for policymakers, the professional teaching community, researchers, graduate students, and anyone interested in education policy-related areas such as public policy, comparative education, and sociology of education.
Introduction The Teaching Profession in a Globalizing World:
Governance, Career, Learning
Xavier Dumay, Tore Bernt Sorensen, and Lynn PainePART I. THE GLOBAL
GOVERNANCE OF TEACHERS AND THE TEACHING PROFESSION
1. Between Teachers' Governance and Development: Shifting Emphases, Methods,
and Global Policy Trends in Teacher Appraisal
Gerard Ferrer-Esteban, Clara Fontdevila, and Antoni Verger
2. "Agency Work": Teachers, the OECD, and the "Happiness Turn"
Susan L. Robertson and Carlos Navia Canales
3. Educational Hierarchies and The Voice of the Teaching Profession:
Organized Teachers Participation in Global Governance
Nina Bascia
4. Representations of Teachers and Teaching in the Public Space: Exploring
the Interplay between Policy and Media Constructions of Teacher Supply in
Australia and England
Kathryn Spicksley and Nicole Mockler
PART II. LABOR MARKET POLICIES AND TEACHERS CAREERS: SHIFTING TOWARD
FLEXIBLITY AND FRAGMENTATION
5. Teacher Shortages and Contract Teachers in the Global South
Amita Chudgar and Martial Dembélé
6. The Expanded Presence of Second-Career Teachers: Redefining the Teaching
Profession and Career
Thibault Coppe
7. The Teaching Profession in India: Growth, Diversification, and
Feminization
Padma M. Sarangapani, Mythili Ramchand, and Jyoti Bawane
8. The Future of Teacher Education and Teacher Professionalism in the Face of
Global Policy Trends
Maria Teresa Tatto
PART III. NEW CONFIGURATIONS OF TEACHERS WORK AND LEARNING
9. Platformed Professionalities: What Digital Platforms Do to Teacher
Professionality
Mathias Decuypere and Steven Lewis
10. Working from Professional and Political Scripts: Teach for All and the
Globalization of a (Domestic) Teacher Education Model
Matthew A. M. Thomas and Elisabeth E. Lefebvre
11. Teacher Leadership and Professional Status in World Culture
Gerald K. LeTendre
12. The Socio-Politics of Teachers Learning: Global Insights
Ian Hardy
Xavier Dumay is Professor of Education at UCLouvain, Belgium.
Tore Bernt Sorensen is Lecturer of Education at the School of Education, University of Glasgow, UK.
Lynn Paine is Professor of Teacher Education at Michigan State University, USA.
