| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 210 pages) : map |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Global networking and the world of international education / Michael Wylie -- The political economy of international schools and social class formation / Ceri Brown and Hugh Lauder -- International schools and micropolitics: fear, vulnerability and identity in fragmented space / Richard Caffyn -- Teachers for the international school of the future / Mary Hayden and Jeff Thompson -- Teaching and learning in international schools: a consideration of stakeholders and their expectations / Helen Fail -- International curriculum / James Cambridge -- Assessment in international schools / Richard Bates -- The international baccalaureate: its growth and complexity of challenges / Tristan Bunnell -- Education for global citizenship: reflecting upon the instrumentalist agendas at play / Harriet Marshall. |
| Summary |
References; 6 Teaching and learning in international schools; The international school context; Culture: essentialist and non-essentialist views; Teachers; The teaching of values; Cultural differences; Power distance; Individualism-collectivism; Uncertainty avoidance; Masculinity-femininity; Confucius dynamism; Students; Parents; Curriculum; Conclusions; References; 7 International curriculum; Theorising curriculum; Aspects of international curriculum; Grouped Baccalaureate-type programmes and continuity between programmes; Summary; References; 8 Assessment and international schools. |
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The well-known international contributors to this book move beyond simply describing the issues, and instead suggest ways in which the complex and often contradictory tensions within the world of international schooling and its global contexts must be examined critically. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
International education.
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International education. |
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International schools.
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International schools. |
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Education and globalization.
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Education and globalization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bates, Richard J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schooling internationally. 1st ed. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011 9780415589277 (DLC) 2010025863 (OCoLC)644019045 |
| ISBN |
9780415589277 (electronic book) |
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0415589274 (electronic book) |
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9780415589284 (electronic book) |
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0415589282 (electronic book) |
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9780203834800 (electronic book) |
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0203834801 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
99949265440 |
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