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Organising teachers to learn / Michael de Wall.
A paper written from research undertaken with an Eric Pearson Study Grant. "As a teacher union, how do we build the collective capacity of public school teachers to: effectively engage and shape local affairs in ways that bring greater dignity and respect to daily experiences of teaching and learning?; drive statewide and national campaigns in their schools and Associations?; establish sustainable working relationships with public school parents and communities to aid advocacy and mobilisation for campaigns? These very practical concerns also raise deeper questions about the relationship between organising, educating and the role of learning in the organised struggles of public school teachers. New ways of organising won't just happen; they must be learned and will, more likely than not, unfold in the process of collective struggle. The study also points to the broader challenge of how we create a movement for social and political change that has public education at its heart." - p. 4. "As a teacher union, how do we build the collective capacity of public school teachers to: effectively engage and shape local affairs in ways that bring greater dignity and respect to daily experiences of teaching and learning?; drive statewide and national campaigns in their schools and Associations?; establish sustainable working relationships with public school parents and communities to aid advocacy and mobilisation for campaigns? These very practical concerns also raise deeper questions about the relationship between organising, educating and the role of learning in the organised struggles of public school teachers. New ways of organising won't just happen; they must be learned and will, more likely than not, unfold in the process of collective struggle. The study also points to the broader challenge of how we create a movement for social and political change that has public education at its heart." - p. 4.