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For many years, education policy in England has been at the forefront of what has become known as the global education reform movement (Sahlberg 2010). England has appeared in the vanguard in terms of neoliberal reform and restructuring of public education. English education policy has had profound effects on relations with teachers as an occupational group, and on teachers organized in their unions in particular.
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Stevenson, H., Mercer, J. (2015). Education Reform in England and the Emergence of Social Movement Unionism: The National Union of Teachers in England. In: Bascia, N. (eds) Teacher Unions in Public Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426567_11
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