Global Teachers, Australian Perspectives Goodbye Mr Chips, Hello Ms Banerjee /

• Main Authors: Reid, Carol (Author), Collins, Jock (Author), Singh, Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Teaching.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Emigration and immigration.; Sociology of Education.; Migration.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1) Introduction
• Chapter 2) Globalizing Teachers: policy and theoretical dimensions
• Chapter 3) Immigrant Teachers in Australia: Quantitative Insights
• Chapter 4) Global Teachers’ Pathways to Australia
• Chapter 5) The Capital Reconversion of Global Teachers in Australia
• Chapter 6) Internationally Educated Teachers’ Critiques of Tests of their Employability
• Chapter 7) Global Teachers Living and Teaching in Australia
• Chapter 8) Goodbye ‘Mr Chips’: the global mobility of Australian-educated teachers
• Chapter 9) Revisiting Ms Banerjee and Mr Chips.