World Yearbook of Education 2025. The teaching profession in a globalizing world: Governance, career, learning

Group Submission Type: Book Launch

Description of Session

The World Yearbook of Education 2025 analyses 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 towards 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 analyse the governance of the teaching profession in the contemporary context of major societal changes and globalizing processes, this book is organized into three sections, focusing on:
- teacher policies as global governance and public policy
- teacher labour 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.

The book launch session will be organized as follows:
1. Presentation of the volume by the three co-editors (10 minutes)
2. Remarks by the two invited discussants (10 minutes each)
3. Interactive panel discussion with some of the chapter authors, reflecting on where this work takes the field (20 minutes)
4. Q&A with the audience (10 minutes)

Sub Unit

• Book launches and Workshops / Book Launch

Organizers

• Tore Bernt Sorensen, University of Glasgow

• Lynn W Paine, Michigan State University

Chair

• Tore Bernt Sorensen, University of Glasgow

Book Launch Presenters

• Antoni Verger, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

• Susan Lee Robertson, The University of Cambridge

• Amita Chudgar, Michigan State University

• Matthew A.M. Thomas, The University of Glasgow

• Elisabeth E Lefebvre, Bethel University

• Gerald LeTendre, Penn State College of Education

Non Presenters

• Maria Teresa Tatto, Arizona State University

• Martial Dembélé, University of Montreal

Discussants

• Beatrice Avalos, University of Chile

• Carlos Vargas, UNESCO