International Schools, Teaching and Governance An Autoethnography of a Teacher in Conflict /

• Main Author: Blyth, Carmen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational sociology.; Teaching.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Early Childhood Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Sociology of Education.; International and Comparative Education.

This book examines how injustice based on social positioning is performed within the context of international schools. Drawing on the lived experiences of an international school teacher, it proposes and explores the notion that teachers, in being constituted and positioned as subordinate within the...

Table of Contents:

• PART I. The Journey/al and Reflections
• Chapter 1. The Story from Start to Finish
• Chapter 2. Re-Theorising and Re-Problematizing Conflict from A Posthumanist Stance: Meaning, Truth, and Understanding in a Posthumanist World
• PART II: Dimensions of Conflict
• Chapter 3. The International School: Taking Stock of a World ‘Commodity’–Leadership and Management
• Chapter 3. The Apparatuses of Conflict
• Chapter 5. The Dark Side: Teacher Emotions and their Affect/Effect on Conflict
• Chapter 6. Concluding on a More Optimistic Note.