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Direct linkSoong, Hannah; Stahl, Garth – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
This paper investigates the experiences of Western teacher expatriates in a Shanghai international schooling organization. We explore the risks and benefits associated with transnational mobility and how teacher expatriates, as part of the global middle-class (GMC), maintain and reaffirm their middle-class status. Focusing on adaptation and…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Professionalism, Teaching Experience, Foreign Countries
Tarc, Paul; Mishra Tarc, Aparna; Wu, Xi – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
This exploratory study on the global middle class (GMC) examines three representative experiences of the tens of thousands of Anglo-Western international schoolteachers (ISTs), who teach in private, K-12, English-immersion international schools for extended periods of time. The notion of GMC provokes consideration of social class making and forms…
Descriptors: Whites, Foreign Workers, Western Civilization, Global Approach
Chao, Xia; Ma, Xiufang – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2019
Grounded in the perspectives of language socialization and transnational habitus, this one-year ethnographic case study explores two middle-class Chinese sojourner families' educational, bilingual and biliterate practices after their arrival in the U.S. It addresses the process that their middle childhood children experienced, from the excitement…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Social Isolation, Socialization
