Making sense of the impact of the forces of globalization on national teacher workforces
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This seminar celebrates the launch of Professor Dumay’s edited book: The Liberalization of Teacher Employment Regimes in Europe (OUP, 2025). Based on a multi-scalar study, the book examines how teachers’ careers have been reconfigured, by analysing the joint evolution of the European Union’s governance of education and teachers, and of employment regimes in two contrasting European countries: England and France. The seminar will demonstrate how the re-organisation of teacher workforces in these systems has led to contrasting evolutionary paths: liberal deregulation in England and dualisation in France. It also discusses the implications of these developments for employment and working conditions, the quality of educational environments, and the future of the teaching profession.
Details of the book being launched at this seminar can be found at:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-liberalization-of-teacher-employment-regimes-in-europe-9780197761687?cc=be&lang=en&
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Xavier Dumay is Professor of Education Policy at UC Louvain, Belgium. His research interests lie in educational policies, the globalisation of education, educational organisations and markets, work and employment transformations, mostly from a comparative perspective. He was the PI of a European Research Council funded project on the teaching profession and teachers’ careers in Europe: www.teacherscareers.eu
