Recruiting teachers online : marketing strategies and information dissemination practices of UK‐based agencies

A review of the websites of 43 UK-based agencies that are recruiting teachers in South Africa and other countries finds that important information about what to expect often is missing. An analysis of the marketing strategies shows that agencies overall are promising schools thorough vetting of candidates and low fees, are promising prospective teachers good pay while inviting them to imagine an exciting life outside the classroom, and are assuring both that the agency can make the “right” match. The article concludes with a list of recommendations for candidates and for agencies.http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cedr20hj201

'Teacher Shortages' in the U.S. and the politics of recruiting abroad

This commentary calls attention to the “importation” of overseas-trained teachers to teach in the U.S., to the assumption of a widespread teacher shortage in the U.S. (used as a rationale for this practice), and to the authors’ fears that both local and overseas-trained teachers are being used as pawns in a high-stakes political battle.http://www.tcrecord.org/gv201

Contemporary educational criticism : a critique

This dissertation explores issues in the theory and practice of contemporary educational criticism that have arisen in the wake of the breakup of the curriculum field in the 1960s and 1970s. This upheaval, I argue, reflects a broader questioning across the humanities and the social sciences that has challenged the legitimacy of critics' claims to authority and has eroded the boundaries of disciplinary critique. The dissertation develops a critique of John Mann's model of curriculum criticism and critiques the practice of educational criticism as exemplified in works representative of the dominant strains of contemporary educational criticism: 1) the geopolitically- and culturally focused criticism of texts such as the National Commission on Excellence in Education's A Nation at Risk and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, and 2) the critical pedagogy literature, which critiques the anti-egalitarianism of critics such as Bloom and the NCEE. Conclusions are 1) that for educational critics to recogniz

NLP and leadership 50 exercises to enable you to make a difference

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