Jelmer Evers is a history teacher in a secondary school and is involved in classroom innovation. Jelmer gives advice, workshops and guest lectures on new forms of pedagogy and is involved in designing a new innovative teacher training college. He writes columns and articles for educational magazines and has edited Het Alternatief. He was nominated Teacher of the Year 2012 and named one of The Netherlands' 23 'New Radicals' by national magazine Vrij Nederland in 2013. He was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize in 2014.

René Kneyber is a mathematics teacher in secondary school. He has written popular books on classroom authority and discipline and has edited multiple high-profile books, including the Dutch book Het Alternatief and the Dutch translation of Embedding Formative Assessment by Dylan Wiliam. In 2015 he became member of the Dutch Education Council on royal commendation.

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Part 1: A global problem: Accountability, privatization and control

Chapter 1: Testing towards Utopia: Performativity, Pedagogy and the Teaching Profession

Chapter 2: Measuring what doesn't matter: The Nonsense and sense of testing

Chapter 3: Stephen Ball - On Neoliberalism and How it travels

Changing Education in Action in Cambodia: The Embattled Teach

Chapter 4: The Effects of Accountability: A case study from Indonesia

Chapter 5: Thijs Jansen - On Quality and Professionality

Changing Education in Action in Georgia: ¿.

Part 2: A New Paradigm: Flip the system

Chapter 6: Good Education and the Teacher: Reclaiming Educational Professionalism

Chapter 7: Non-positional Teacher Leadership: Distributed leadership and self-efficacy

Chapter 8: The teachers¿ voice: teacher unions at the heart of a new democratic professionalism

Chapter 9: Automony and Transparency: Two ideas gone bad

Chapter 10: Teacher agency: What it is and why it matters

Part 3: A Change to the system: Collective Autonomy

Chapter 11: Whole systems approach: Professional Capital in Singapore

Changing Education in Action in Finland: The Collaborating Teacher

Chapter 12: Teacher-powered Schools: Rising above education¿s blame culture

Changing Education in Action in Singapore: The Inquiring Teacher

Chapter 13: From top-down to inside-out: working in a teacher-led school

Changing Education in Action in Mexico: The Embracing Teacher

Part 4: A Question of Mindset: Supporting and activating teachers

Chapter 14: Teacher Leadership: A reinvented teaching profession

Changing Education in Spain: The Inspiring Teacher

Chapter 15: Arjan van der Meij - On Peer review and maker education

Chapter 16: Teacher Learning and Leadership Program: Professional Development for and by teachers

Chapter 17: The Polite Revolution in Research and Education

Changing Education in Action in Korea: The Travelling Teacher

Chapter 18: Supporting and Empowering Teachers: The Role of School-Community Partnerships

Changing Education in Action in Australia: The Connected Teacher

Conclusion: Flipping the Education System