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EPAA has just published Volume 9 Number 28 "International
Patterns of Teacher Discontent," by Catherine Scott,
Barbara Stone and Steve Dinham.

The article can be accessed directly at
         http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v9n28.html

An abstract follows:
                     "I love teaching but...."
          International Patterns of Teacher Discontent

                        Catherine Scott
                 University of Western Sydney
                          Australia

                         Barbara Stone
                     The Imagination Group

                          Steve Dinham
                 University of Western Sydney
                           Australia
Abstract
This article reports the results of research into the career
motivation and satisfaction of a sample of over 3,000 teachers
and school administrators in four countries: Australia,
New Zealand, England, and the USA. Using the participants'
own words, we explore the effects on educators of recent
international educational change, understood here as a
subcategory of more general social trends. Bourdieu's
concepts of the Right and Left Hands of the state are used
to interpret the experience of teaching in a climate where,
while more is expected and demanded of schools, and schools
and teachers are scrutinised as never before, educational
resources have become scarcer, and the status and image
of teaching as a profession has declined.

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Gene V Glass,  Editor
Education Policy Analysis Archives
College of Education,  Arizona State University
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