CiNii Books - Global teachers, Australian perspectives : Goodbye Mr Chips, Hello Ms Banerjee

This is the first book on global teachers and the increasingly important phenomenon of 'brain circulation' in the global teaching profession. A teaching qualification is a passport to an international professional career: the global teacher is found in more and more classrooms around the world today. It is a two-way movement. This book looks at the growing importance of immigrant teachers in western countries today and at teachers who exit from western countries (emigrant teachers) seeking teaching experience in other countries. Drawing on the international literature in Europe, North America, Asia and elsewhere supplemented by rich insights derived from recent Australian research, the book outlines the personal, institutional and structural processes nationally and internationally underlying the increasing global circulation of teachers. It identifies the key drivers of global teacher mobility: a range of factors including family, lifestyle, classroom experience, travel, opportunities for advancement, discipline, linguistic skills, taxation rates, cultural factors and institutional frameworks and policy support. The book is the first detailed contemporary account of the experiences of Australian immigrant and emigrant teachers in the schools and communities where they teach and live. It makes an important and original theoretical and empirical contribution to the contemporary fields of sociology of education and immigration studies.

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Foreword - Professor Raewyn Connell Acknowledgements About the Authors Abbreviations Chapter 1 - Introduction References Chapter 2 - Globalizing Teachers: policy and theoretical dimensions Theoretical Points of Departure Bourdieu, Reconversion and Tests Racialization Critiques and Educational Change Methodology Conclusion References Chapter 3 Immigrant Teachers in Australia: Quantitative Insights Introduction Global and Australian Immigration: contemporary trends and developments Immigrant Teachers in Australia: background A Survey of Immigrant Teachers in Australia Immigration Experience Experience in Australian Schools Experience Living in Australia References Chapter 4 - Global Teachers' Pathways to Australia Introduction The Demand for Teachers The Immigration Processes and Pathways to Australia References Chapter 5 - The Capital Reconversion of Global Teachers in Australia Introduction Red Tape Experiences Capital Conversion Tests for Global Teachers in NSW Public Schools First-Generation Critique-Driven Test Corrections Second-Generation Critique-Driven Test Corrections Third-Generation Critique-Driven Test Corrections Critique-Driven Test Corrections Conclusion References Chapter 6 - Internationally Educated Teachers' Critiques of Tests of their Employability Introduction Lack of Authenticity Inequalities Oppression Disenchantment Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 7 - Global Teachers Living and Teaching in Australia Introduction Experiences in their New Schools Discrimination and Racism Racialised Responses to Immigrant Teachers' Accents Racial Discrimination in Schools The Difficulties of Appointments to Remote Schools Was it worth it? What Happens Next? Conclusion References Chapter 8 - Goodbye 'Mr Chips': the global mobility of Australian-educated teachers Being a Foreigner/Waiguoren/Gaigin/Gweilo/Putih... The Participants and their Characteristics Qualifications, Destinations and Recognition Overseas Settling In Gender 'Oh, God, I Don't Have Black Hair or Brown Eyes' Being a Laughing Stock Freaky 'Westerners' Support Overseas Home Again: the value of being overseas and bringing back cultural knowledge Recognition of Overseas Experience ... To Be a Bit of a Gypsy? Conclusion References Chapter 9 - Revisiting Ms Banerjee and Mr Chips References

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