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Discourses of antagonism and desire : marketing for international students in neighbourhood schools

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posted on 2009-06-01, 00:00 authored by Ruth ArberRuth Arber
This paper explores the consequences of these discourses for the ways that international students are identified and positioned within school communities. My argument is developed in four sections. The first describes my ongoing exploration into the impact of international student programmes in Australia. The second exemplifies my argument: exploring the day-to-day experiences of vice principals in two Victorian government state secondary schools as they market their schools, and examining the systemic and ontological discourses played out within those conversations. The third interrogates discourses of identity and difference, neo-liberalism and nave cosmopolitanism which I find shape teacher conversations about international student programmes. In the final section, I argue that the impact of the discourse formations implicit in teacher talk about international student programmes has been the objectification of international students and their ambivalent inclusion within the school community.

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Journal

Globalisation, societies and education

Volume

7

Issue

2

Pagination

167 - 184

Publisher

Routledge

Location

London, England

ISSN

1476-7724

eISSN

1476-7732

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2009, Taylor & Francis

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