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Hamza R'boul – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
This paper argues that The National Coordination of Forcibly Contracted Teachers (NCFCT) [Arabic characters omitted] is a social justice movement that goes beyond the demands for better employment benefits and educational justice through schools that communities deserve to resisting philosophies that make use of their 'relegated' status as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, Social Justice, Activism
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Rey, Jeanne; Bolay, Matthieu; Gez, Yonatan N. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
Recent decades have seen an exponential growth in the field of international schools, and a concurrent rise in the number of young Anglo-Saxon teachers overseas. Such mobile teaching careers have largely been presented in terms of emphasising exploration, travel and lifestyle-related migration. While acknowledging such factors, we also draw…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Life Style, Aspiration, Foreign Workers
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Bunnell, Tristan – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
An over-looked global educational development has been the exponential growth of "international schools." The field in 2014 involved almost 350,000 educators in over 7000 English-medium schools in non-English-speaking countries. This is expected to rise to half a million educators, mainly American and British, in 10,000 schools by 2022.…
Descriptors: International Schools, News Reporting, Social Media, Language of Instruction
Prendergast, Catherine – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2008
This article reports on data drawn from a larger critical ethnographic study of English language use and instruction in Slovakia at the moment of capitalist integration. Slovaks who sought to learn English at the turn of the millennium were driven by the brand new anxiety of job insecurity. English lessons at this time sold themselves as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Enterprise System, Social Systems, Ethnography