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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
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De Pian, Laura – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
This paper examines the multiple ways in which health policy relating to obesity, diet and exercise is recontextualised and mediated by teachers and pupils in the context of social class in the UK. Drawing on a case study of a middle-class primary school in central England, the paper documents the complexity of the policy process, its uncertainty,…
Descriptors: Public Health, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Social Class