Global teachers, Australian perspectives : Goodbye Mr Chips, Hello Ms Banerjee
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Global teachers, Australian perspectives : Goodbye Mr Chips, Hello Ms Banerjee
Springer, c2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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