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Book Co-Edited by NJCU Education Professor Lois Weiner Published by Palgrave Macmillan

The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and Their Unions: Stories for Resistance, a collection of essays co-edited by Dr. Lois Weiner, a professor of elementary and secondary education at New Jersey City University, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Co-edited by Mary Compton, past president of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers’ union in the United Kingdom and Europe, the book also features an entry by Dr. Basanti Chakraborty, an NJCU assistant professor of early childhood education,

The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and Their Unions features essays by noted scholars, teacher activists, and teacher-union leaders from throughout the world. Contributors lay out the dangers and describe how teachers and their unions can organize successful resistance.

Dr. Chakraborty’s essay on the deferred dream of universal elementary education in India draws upon her field research and describes the frustrating conditions faced by teachers, including lack of classrooms, widespread corruption in the distribution of materials, and bureaucratic red tape.

Internationally known for her research on urban teacher education, Dr. Weiner is the author of Preparing Teachers for Urban Schools: Lessons from Thirty Years of School Reform and Urban Teaching: The Essentials, which is used in teacher education programs throughout the United States.

A member of the NJCU faculty since 1990, Dr. Weiner was a high school teacher and union activist in California and New York before completing a doctoral degree at Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

News releases by Ellen Wayman-Gordon, and Kelly Resch, Office of Public Information.