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The arena of International Schooling is growing rapidly and changing in nature. The number of schools delivering a curriculum wholly or partly in English outside an English-speaking nation reached 12,000 in 2020. China and the Middle East is the emerging centre of activity, and local parents are the main customers. This is an increasingly important, yet still overlooked, area of schooling. Although it continuously attracts teachers, mainly from Britain and North America, the reality is precarious and insecure.
Precarity and Insecurity in International Schooling addresses this paradox, and starts a new discussion, arguing that a more positive lens of inquiry is required to understand the situation. In so doing, the book introduces new sociological evidence, concepts and visions linked to the accumulation of 'resilience' and 'transition capital'.
This book will be of interest to students and researchers wishing to gain a new and contemporary insight into the rapidly changing world of International Schooling.
Tristan Bunnell is a Lecturer in International Education at the University of Bath, UK. Prior to this position he taught International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme economics, at the International School of London, and Copenhagen International School.
Adam Poole is Director of Research at the Institute of Impact Studies, International Education Group, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. Prior to this, he taught the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme English in various schools in Shanghai.
Chapter 1. The Continuous Growth: The Emergent Natural Stage of Anomie
Chapter 2. The Normal Negative Sociology: The Condition of Precarity and Insecurity
Chapter 3. Precarity and Insecurity in Practice: Evidence from Mainland China
Chapter 4. Towards a Positive Sociology: The Role of 'Resilience'
Chapter 5. The New Concept of 'Transition Capital': A Positive Coping Strategy
Chapter 6. The Emerging Research Agenda: Towards a 'Sociology of International Schooling'