Mobile Teachers, Teacher Identity and International Schooling / / edited by Ruth Arber, Jill Blackmore, Athena Vongalis-Macrow.

• HerausgeberIn: Arber, Ruth.; Blackmore, Jill.; Vongalis-Macrow, Athena.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (165 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

"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. In the early 21st century, educational institutions have been transformed by technological innovation and global interconnectivity. The demographic, ideological, economic and cultural flows that integrate local and global interconnections have consequences for the ways in which educational policy, theories and practice can be understood and take place locally. The everyday lives of practitioners, parents and students; the institutions in which they are educated and work; and the sociocultural and ideological contexts in which they work, are all consequently changing. The manifestation of these changes – as evident in the work and lives of teachers within specific cultural contexts and education systems; in their implications for educational theory and methodology; and their consequences for policy, programs, practice and research in education – are the focus of this book. This book explores the mobility of curriculum, pedagogies, ideas and people that represent and mediate the impact of Global uneven flows and movements through, in, and for school education, and the concepts and practices which frame that transformation. The particular focus of the book is on how these flows inform the ways individuals negotiate their identities, cultures and languages in different national and educational contexts. Education systems and the educational experiences offered by schools are being reconfigured due to multiple pressures. What do these moves to mobilise and to work transnationally mean in terms of educational provision, possibilities and practice?".

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Ruth Arber , Jill Blackmore and Athena Vongalis-Macrow -- Introduction / Ruth Arber , Jill Blackmore and Athena Vongalis-Macrow -- Mapping Internationalisation in Schools / Athena Vongalis-Macrow -- Mobile Curriculum / Aaron Koh -- Teachers’ Negotiation of Professional Identities in the ‘Contact Zone’ / Ly Thi Tran and Nhai Thi Nguyen -- The Exhilaration of Being ‘Not-at-home’ / Ruth Arber -- Global Nomads / Roderick Neilsen -- Who Gets the Best Teachers? / Julia Resnik -- Mobility and Local/International Knowledge Co-production / Michael Singh , Bobby Harreveld , Tao Gao and Patrick Danaher -- ‘Portable Personhood’ / Jill Blackmore.