Overview
- Employs a unique autoethnographic perspective to explore the lived experiences of teachers at international schools
- Explores the conflicts teachers face with management and governance at international schools
- Argues teachers at international schools are wronged epistemically, ethically and ontologically with regard to their position in the community
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This book examines how injustice based on social positioning is performed within the context of international schools. Drawing on the lived experiences of an international school teacher, it proposes and explores the notion that teachers, in being constituted and positioned as subordinate within the hierarchy that is the international school, leads to their being wronged on three counts: epistemically for being wrongfully mistrusted; ethically for being wrongfully excluded; and ontologically for being wrongfully positioned as a lesser human being. The book addresses the dearth of research currently available on conflict in international schools and how conflict between teachers and administrators is dealt with in and by such institutions. It will be valuable reading for students and teachers of education and sociology, and those interested in the workings of international schools.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Journey/al and Reflections
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Carmen Blyth has over 30 years of international teaching experience.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Schools, Teaching and Governance
Book Subtitle: An Autoethnography of a Teacher in Conflict
Authors: Carmen Blyth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46783-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46782-5Published: 07 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83585-3Published: 18 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46783-2Published: 26 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 192
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, Language Policy and Planning