International Teachers' Lived Experiences : Examining Internationalised Schooling in Shanghai

• Autore: Poole Adam
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2021; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 pages)
• Disciplina: 371.100951
• Soggetto topico: Professors; Condicions socials; Educació internacional
• Soggetto geografico: Xangai (Xina)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Series Editors Introduction -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for International Teachers' Lived Experiences -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Interlude # 1 -- 1.2 Introduction -- 1.3 Purpose of This Book -- 1.4 Defining Lived Experience -- 1.5 Background to This Book -- 1.5.1 Methods -- 1.5.2 Relational Ethics as a Guiding Methodology -- 1.6 Situating This Book Theoretically -- 1.7 Outline of Chapters -- References -- 2 Mapping the International School Landscape: Situating Chinese Internationalised Schools -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Conceptual Difficulties of Defining the 'International' in International Schooling -- 2.3 Defining the International School -- 2.4 Metaphors for Understanding the International School Landscape -- 2.4.1 Arena -- 2.4.2 Field -- 2.4.3 Landscape -- 2.5 The Changing Landscape -- 2.5.1 Geography -- 2.5.2 Demography -- 2.5.3 Function -- 2.5.4 Legitimacy -- 2.6 Making Sense of the Changing Landscape -- 2.7 Chinese Internationalised Schools -- 2.7.1 Curriculum -- 2.7.2 Students and Parents -- 2.7.3 Teachers -- 2.8 The Research Context: 'automobile, Suburb, Empty' -- 2.8.1 The Curriculum -- 2.8.2 The International Curriculum: The IBDP -- 2.8.3 The Enacted Curriculum -- 2.8.4 Students and Parents -- 2.8.5 Teachers -- 2.9 Summary of Chapter -- References -- 3 International School Teachers: Motivations and (Mis)conceptions -- 3.1 Interlude #2 -- 3.2 Introduction -- 3.3 Who Are International School Teachers? -- 3.3.1 Motivations for Relocating, and Staying Overseas -- 3.3.2 Narrative # 1: To See the World (or Seeking Out Greener Pastures) -- 3.3.3 Narrative # 2: To Escape Financial and Personal Issues (or the Wild West of International Education) -- 3.3.4 Narrative # 3: To Find Employment (or Riding the Gravy Train). ; 3.3.5 Narrative # 4: To Escape the Tyranny of Performativity (or, Out of the Fire and into the Frying Pan) -- 3.3.6 Narrative # 5: Why Teachers Stay in the Field (or 'a Lot of Them End up Staying Overseas Because They Have no Good Reason to Go Home') -- 3.4 International School Teacher Typologies -- 3.5 Critical Response to the Typologies -- 3.6 Metaphysical Critique -- 3.7 Ethical Critique -- 3.7.1 Relational Ethics -- 3.8 Summary of Chapter -- 3.9 Introducing the Participants -- 3.9.1 Daisy -- 3.9.2 Sophie -- 3.9.3 Tyron -- 3.9.4 Robert -- References -- 4 The (Inter)cultural -- 4.1 Interlude #3 -- 4.2 Introduction -- 4.3 Traditional Accounts of the Intercultural -- 4.4 Critical Interculturality -- 4.5 Getting Critical About Critical Interculturality -- 4.6 Teachers' Experiences of the (Inter)cultural -- 4.7 Cultural Chauvinism? -- 4.8 Cultural Insider -- 4.9 Cultural Mediator -- 4.10 Summary of Chapter -- References -- 5 The Precarious -- 5.1 Interlude #4 -- 5.2 Introduction -- 5.3 International School Teachers as a Global Educational Precariat -- 5.4 International School Precarity -- 5.5 International School Teachers as a Global Middle Class -- 5.6 Teachers' Lived Experiences of Precarity -- 5.6.1 'I Left Without a Fight, like Most International Teachers Do' -- 5.6.2 'If You don't Perform, They're Going to Send You Home' -- 5.6.3 'I don't Know What Kind of Thing is the International Way of Teaching' -- 5.6.4 'You Are just a Foreigner Who doesn't Get Anything' -- 5.7 The Emergent Picture of Precarity in Chinese Internationalised Schools -- 5.8 Summary of Chapter -- References -- 6 The Resilient -- 6.1 Interlude #5 -- 6.2 Introduction -- 6.3 Precarious Privilege -- 6.4 Resilience -- 6.5 Deepening Resilience from the Perspective of Perezhivanie -- 6.6 Teachers' Lived Experiences of Resilience. ; 6.6.1 'What I Realised Was All That I Could Do Was Things That I Could Control' -- 6.6.2 'I Did Achieve Some Personal Growth and Also Professional Growth' -- 6.6.3 'It Also Comes with Emotional Consequences' -- 6.7 Summary of Chapter -- References -- 7 Conclusion -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Sur-Thrival -- 7.3 Implications for Research -- 7.4 International Schooling -- 7.5 The Emergence of an Internationalised School Landscape in China -- 7.5.1 American-Style International Schools -- 7.5.2 British-Style International Schools -- 7.5.3 Canadian-Style International Schools -- 7.6 Mapping the Typography of the Internationalised School Landscape in China -- 7.6.1 Comparing Teachers' Experiences of Precarity, Resilience, and Interculturality Across Multiple Chinese Internationalised Schools -- 7.6.2 Exploring Different Types of Chinese Internationalised Schools -- 7.6.3 Developing the Continuum of Internationalised Schools -- 7.7 Summary of Chapter -- 7.8 Epilogue: International Schooling and Covid-19 -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: International Teachers' Lived Experiences
• ISBN: 3-030-78686-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495174703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International and Development Education