Desiring TESOL and International Education : : Market Abuse and Exploitation / / Raqib Chowdhury, Phan Le Ha.

This book addresses how Western universities have constructed themselves as global providers of education, and are driven to be globally competitive. It examines how the term 'international' has been exploited by the market in the form of government educational policies and agencies, host...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:New Perspectives on Language and Education
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. Looking into the Problem
  • 2. Power, Discourse, Desire and International Education
  • 3. Globalisation, International Education and Questions of Identity
  • 4. Constructing the 'Truths' of International Student Subjectivities
  • 5. From Global to Local - Learning Supermarkets in the National Interest: International Education and the Australian Government
  • 6. The Fabric of Relations: Desire and the Formation of Choices
  • 7. Brokering Identity
  • 8. Rika: 'The Spotlight of Difference'
  • 9. Purchasing the 'Good'
  • 10. Reconstructing the Discourses of International Education
  • References