ABSTRACT

I started this book by alerting the reader to the forebodings some writers have about the effects of globalisation on the professional identities of teachers. In particular, I referred to a quotation from Stephen Ball about the elimination of emotion and desire from teaching (Ball 1999, 29). Although this book acknowledges many of the effects globalisation in all its forms has on the teaching profession, the teachers’ voices in this book show the souls of teachers to be far from empty-far from transparent.