The Future of Teachers' Work

• In Event: Roundtable Session 104
  In Roundtable Session: Current Research on Teachers’ Work and Teacher Unions

Abstract

For the last several years, the Alberta Teachers’ Association has engaged Albertans in a dialogue about the societal changes that are affecting the province’s public education system. To complement this series of public dialogues, the Association embarked in 2009-10 on a study intended to identify the external trends and forces that are changing the nature of teachers’ work and to suggest how these forces might influence the knowledge, skills and attributes that teachers will need in the future. To undertake this study, the Association assembled a research team composed of representatives from the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary, Calgary Public Teachers Local No 38 and the provincial Association. This paper represents the culmination of this research project.

Authors

• Jean-Claude Couture, Alberta Teachers' Association

• Andrew Hargreaves, Boston College

• Phil McRae, University of Alberta