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Beyond "little miss international": exploring the imaginaries of mobile educators

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posted on 2017-01-01, 00:00 authored by Ruth ArberRuth Arber, Penelope PittPenelope Pitt
The phenomenon of teachers from the “global North” working outside their countries of origin is on the rise, yet scarce research has considered how educators negotiate their professional lives and identities as they move between contexts. In this chapter, Arber and Pitt draw from larger research to explore the case studies of two experienced Australian female educators working in Gulf states. Each educator narrated a “critical incident” involving a member of their school or work community as a way to explain how their understanding of best professional practice was challenged in their new work context. The concept of social imaginaries and their performance within shaping frames of identity, difference, temporality and spatiality, is used to consider the implications for preparing teacher educators for work in diverse contexts.

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Title of book

Global teaching : Southern perspectives on teachers working with diversity

Series

Global Teaching

Chapter number

10

Pagination

189 - 207

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Place of publication

New York, N.Y.

ISBN-13

9781137532145

Language

eng

Publication classification

B Book chapter; B1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2017, The Authors

Extent

11

Editor/Contributor(s)

C Reid, J Major

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