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This chapter delineates the contemporary involvement by teacher unions in projects to improve teaching and learning, including but extending beyond the arena of collective bargaining drawing from research on a variety of recent reform efforts by teachers’ organizations in Canada and the United States. The challenges of and necessity for unions’ current reform work are identified.
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Bascia, N. (2005). Teacher Unions and Educational Reform. In: Fullan, M. (eds) Fundamental Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4454-2_13
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