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Mobile Teachers, Teacher Identity and International Schooling

Edited by Ruth Arber Jill Blackmore Athena Vongalis-Macrow Deakin University, Australia

SENSE PUBLISHERS ROTTERDAM / BOSTON / TAIPEI

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CONTENTS

Preface Ruth Arber, Jill Blackmore and Athena Vongalis-Macrow

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Introduction Ruth Arber, Jill Blackmore and Athena Vongalis-Macrow

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Mapping Internationalisation in Schools: Contingency and Ad-hoc Development Athena Vongalis-Macrow

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Mobile Curriculum: Elite Schools in Asia and Their Globalising Curriculum Aaron Koh

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Teachers’ Negotiation of Professional Identities in the ‘Contact Zone’: Contradictions and Possibilities in the Time of International Student Mobility Ly Thi Tran and Nhai Thi Nguyen The Exhilaration of Being ‘Not-at-home’: Tourist Teachers and the Negotiation of Identity, Difference and Belonging Ruth Arber Global Nomads: TESOL Teachers in the Shifting World Roderick Neilsen Who Gets the Best Teachers?: The Incorporation of the IB Program into Public High Schools and Its Impact on the Teacher Labour Market in Ecuador Julia Resnik

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Mobility and Local/International Knowledge Co-production: Innovation in the Post-monolingual Learning of Chinese Michael Singh, Bobby Harreveld, Tao Gao and Patrick Danaher

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‘Portable Personhood’: Travelling Teachers, Changing Workscapes and Professional Identities in International Labour Markets Jill Blackmore

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PREFACE

Mobile Teachers, Teacher Identity and International Schooling focuses on the increased mobility of teachers and curriculum and what it means for the expansion of international schooling. Teacher and curriculum mobility is considered within the wider context of the rising intensity and rapidity of uneven flows of educational ideas, goods, services and knowledge in the globally interconnected and transcultural world of the 21st century (Appadurai, 1996). The chapters in this book consider the impact of mobility on the transformation of schooling and educational work. Analyses of globalised and international education indicate that the relationship between internationalisation and mobile trans-cultural identities is contested in the context of rapid technological, demographic, cultural, economic and ideological change. The escalation of educational cha