Education Policies and the Restructuring of the Educational Profession

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Soft Infusion: Constructing ‘Teachers’ in the PISA Sphere.- Chapter 3 Politics of Professionnalization of Teaching: Contemporanean Development and Variations of Uses.- Chapter 4 School Inspectors in Europe: Towards a New Public Professionalism?.- Chapter 5 Changes in School Governance and the Reshaping of Head Teachers’ Roles and Identities in Portugal.- Chapter 6 Education Policies, the Teaching Profession and Teacher Training in Germany – The Ever-Evolving 16-Piece Mosaic.- Chapter 7 Policies for Teacher Training and Work in Argentina from the Turn of the Century.- Chapter 8 Between Evidence-based Education and Professional Judgment, What Future for Teachers and Their Knowledge?.- Chapter 9 New Public Management and Its Effects in the Teaching Profession: Recent Trends in Spain and Catalonia.- Chapter 10 Comparison and Benchmarking as Key Elements in Governing Processes in Norwegian Schools.- Chapter 11 Restructuring the Educational Profession in Denmark.- Chapter 12 A Postsocialist Perspective on Audit Culture: Changing Practices and Subjectivities of School Teachers in a Russian Region.- Chapter 13 Neo-liberal Managerialism and Professionalization in U.S. Schools.- Chapter 14 The Teaching Profession in the Context of New Public Management.- Chapter 15 Leadership and New Public Management: the Forgotten Professional Dimension of School Organizations.- Chapter 16 Overcoming Fragmented Professionalism? Accountability for Improvement in Teacher Preparation in Italy.- Chapter 17 Work Regulations and Teacher Subjectivity in a Context of Standardization and Accountability Policies in Chile.- Chapter 18 Neoliberalism and New Public Action in Education in Québec: Changes in Primary School Culture and Teacher Identities?.- Biographies.<p></p>