Examining Teach For All International Perspectives on a Growing Global Network Oxford Studies in Comparative Education Series

*Winner, 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the Society of Professors of Education*

*Winner, 2021 Book Award from the Globalization and Education SIG, Comparative and International Education Society*

Examining Teach For All brings together research focused on Teach For All and its affiliate programmes to explore the organisation?s impact on education around the world. Teach For All is an expanding global network of programmes in more than 50 countries that aim to radically transform education systems by recruiting talented graduates to teach for two years in under-resourced schools and developing them into lifelong advocates of reform. The volume offers nuanced insights into the interests and contexts shaping Teach For All and the challenges and possibilities inherent in broader efforts to enact education reform on a global scale.

This volume is the first of its kind to present empirical research on the emergence and expansion of Teach For All programmes, which replicate and adapt the Teach For America model around the world. The volume traces the network?s expansion from its initial launch in 2007 to its growing international presence, as chapters present new research from national contexts as diverse as Bangladesh, Lebanon, and Spain. Using evidence from a range of perspectives and research methodologies, the chapters collectively highlight the ways in which Teach For All and its affiliate programmes are working to alter educational landscapes worldwide.

This book will be of great interest for scholars, educators, post-graduate students, and policymakers in the fields of comparative education, teacher education, education leadership, and education policy. It paves the way for future critical inquiry into this expanding global network as well as further investigations of educational change around the world.

Part 1: Laying the Foundation. 1. Examining Teach For All: An Introduction. 2. From Teach For America to Teach First: The Initial Expansion Overseas. 3. A growing global network: The development of international research on Teach For All. Part 2: Diffusion and Adaptation. 4. The Origin and Adaptation of Teach First Norway. 5. The Teach For All ‘brand’: Exploring TFA’s successful transferability through case studies of Teach South Africa and Teach First. 6. Bringing a Global Model to the Lebanese Education Context: Adaptation or Adoption? Part 3: Politics and Policies. 7.Teach for Bangladesh as a de facto social enterprise: What is it and where is it going? 8. Mobilising the philanthropic neoliberalisation of Teach For All in Spain. 9. Teacher educators and the pedagogical and curriculum complexity of Teach for All in Australia. 10. Teach First Cymru: Whose Mission? Teach First and the Welsh Government ‘National Mission’ for Education. Part 4: Teaching and Leading. 11. Imagining and realising ‘good quality education’: Capital mobilisation by elite graduates of prestigious universities teaching in rural Chinese schools. 12. Professional Duties and Support for Teach For All Fellows as Reported by School Principals – A Case Study of Two European Countries. 13. Unpacking Teach For All’s Conceptualisation of Leadership Through the ‘Teach For All Talks’ Series. Part 5: Conclusion. 14. Final Thoughts on Teach For All: From where and where to?

Matthew A.M. Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Education and Sociology of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Emilee Rauschenberger is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Katherine Crawford-Garrett is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at the University of New Mexico, USA