Transforming Teacher Unions: Fighting for Better Schools and Social Justice

by Bob Peterson and Michael Charney

This stimulating anthology looks at exemplary practices of teacher unions from the local to national level. It challenges the reader, while presenting stirring new visions for the 21st century that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942961242
• ISBN13: 9780942961249
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Rethinking Schools
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

...should be required reading to get a teaching credential.

While the book deals with the types of teacher unionism in considerable detail, there is only brief mention of the need for teachers themselves to be teachers of unionism. Howard Zinn states in an interview, "If teacher unions want to be strong and well-supported, it's essential they not only be teacher unionists but teachers of unionism... to create a generation of students who support teachers and the movement of teachers for their rights." If the survival of teacher unionism depends upon teachers teaching unionism, they will have to learn about it first. Teacher unions need to teach their members, certainly their site representatives about the history of unionism. Short of having a required course in the role of unions in public education, Transforming Teacher Unions: Fighting for Better Schools and Social Justice should be required reading at least for one of the many classes teachers have to take for a credential.