Teacher education and the global impact of Teach For All

Crawford-Garrett, K. and Thomas, M. A. M. (2018) Teacher education and the global impact of Teach For All. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.417)

Abstract

Over the past two decades, teacher education has been increasingly conceptualized as a policy problem in response to what school reformers, policy-makers, and philanthropists have depicted as a global education crisis necessitating national and international solutions. Teach For All (TFAll), an organization that has sought to respond to global achievement disparities by recruiting elite university graduates to teach in underperforming schools has a presence in more than 45 countries and is a key player in education reform worldwide. In enacting its vision of educational change, TFAll has reshaped notions of teaching at the classroom level by positioning teachers as saviors, leaders, and social engineers; reconfigured city school systems through promoting privatization and deregulation; and contributed to the rapid neoliberalization of education internationally by fundamentally altering educational policies and discourses on a global scale.

• Item Type: Book Sections (Encyclopaedia entry)
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Thomas, Dr Matthew
• Authors: Crawford-Garrett, K., and Thomas, M. A. M.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education
• Journal Name: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education
• Publisher: Oxford University Press