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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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Goh, Daniel P. S. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
The educational reproduction of elite masculinity in postcolonial societies has not been properly studied. This is partly because the postcolonial masculinities of non-western elites are accomplished through the cultivation of naturalized practices signifying the body politic of the nation-state. In Singapore, same-sex elite schools of colonial…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Ethnicity, Social Class, Foreign Countries
Phillion, JoAnn; Malewski, Erik L.; Sharma, Suniti; Wang, Yuxiang – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2009
Universities in the United States and elsewhere offer study abroad programs to meet requirements that graduates have cross-cultural competencies and an international perspective on their discipline. Study abroad courses and field experiences for preservice teachers address two major challenges specific to the teaching profession: (1) how to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers