MSU’s Paine co-edits “World Yearbook of Education”

December 19, 2024

MSU Professor Lynn Paine co-edited “The World Yearbook of Education 2025,” published by Routledge. The volume, “The Teaching Profession in a Globalizing World: Governance, Career, Learning,” focuses on the teacher policies and governance of the teaching perspective within contemporary contexts of societal changes and globalization.

Lynn Paine wearing blue shirt stands in Erickson Hall's Kiva lecturing. She hold papers in her left hand.
Paine, standing in blue shirt, presents to the college (2017).

It is the first volume in the series dedicated to an “overview of globalized teacher policies and their implications for the status of the teaching profession across the world,” according to Routledge’s website.

World Yearbook of Education 2025 cover. The cover is predominantly black and white in a marbled pattern. All text is in white.

“This book is coming at an important time, as conversations internationally about the teaching profession have intensifie,” said Paine, who will retire from MSU at the end of 2024. “This volume’s global perspective brings together questions about teacher policies, careers, and learning—three areas more commonly considered separately but which benefit from recognizing their interconnection.”

Co-edited with Xavier Dumay (UCLouvain) and Tore Bernt Sorensen (University of Glasgow), “Yearbook” is divided into three parts:

  • Teacher policies as global governance and public policy,
  • Teacher labor markets, employment relations and careers and the institutional transformations in the world of work and employment; and
  • The reconfiguration of teachers’ work and the learning of teachers.

Current and former Spartans contributed to the book, including Professor Amita Chudgar, who co-authored a chapter on Teacher Shortages and Contract Teachers in the Global South. Chudgar is the interim associate dean and interim director of the Office of International Studies in Education, a role she inherited from Paine.

man in a dark suit and striped green-and-white tie (left) sits at a conference table, gesturing with his hand while speaking to a woman on the right. The woman, wearing a red and blue striped cardigan and glasses, listens attentively with a smile. They are seated in an office space with a scroll featuring Asian calligraphy and a framed picture in the background.
Paine (left) discusses international initiatives at the College of Education with Dean Jerlando F. L. Jackson (right) in 2023.

“Contributors to the volume reflect different disciplinary and theoretical and methodological orientations, come from a range of different countries and regions, and offer us insights into local, regional, international and global developments,” said Paine. “Together the chapters help complicate and speak back to too-easy claims about teaching and its reform.”

The “Yearbook” series shifts perspectives annually and began in 1965. This publication is the first time an MSU College of Education faculty member has served as a co-editor.

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