Desiring TESOL and International Education

Market Abuse and Exploitation
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78309-148-5
Verlag: Channel View Publications

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

This book addresses how Western universities have constructed themselves as global providers of education, and are driven to be globally competitive. It examines how the term 'international' has been exploited by the market in the form of government educational policies and agencies, host institutions, academia and the mass media. The book explores matters relating to the role of the English language in international education in general and the field of TESOL in particular. It demonstrates how English and TESOL have exercised their symbolic power, coupled with the desire for international education, to create convenient identities for international TESOL students. It also discusses the complexity surrounding and informing these students' painful yet sophisticated appropriation of and resistance to the convenient labels they are subjected to.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chowdhury, Raqib

Le Ha, Phan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Looking into the Problem

2. Power, Discourse, Desire and International Education

3. Globalisation, International Education and Questions of Identity

4. Constructing the ‘Truths’ of International Student Subjectivities

5. From Global to Local – Learning Supermarkets in the National Interest: International Education and the Australian Government

6. The Fabric of Relations: Desire and the Formation of Choices

7. Brokering Identity

8. Rika: ‘The Spotlight of Difference’

9. Purchasing the ‘Good’

10. Reconstructing the Discourses of International Education

Über Autor(innen)

Chowdhury, Raqib
Raqib Chowdhury works as an academic in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. His research interests include EAP and TESOL, English as an International Language, and Identity.

Le Ha, Phan
Phan Le Ha is Senior Professor in the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam, and in the Department of Educational Foundations, College of Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. She is the author of books including Transnational Education Crossing ‘Asia’ and 'the West': Adjusted Desire, Transformative Mediocrity, and Neo-colonial Disguise (2017, Routledge).

Raqib Chowdhury works as an academic in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. His research interests include EAP and TESOL, English as an International Language, and Identity.

Phan Le Ha has recently been appointed Associate Professor of Education in the College of Education, The University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, after nearly a decade lecturing in the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Australia. Her research interests include International Education, English as an International Language, Identity Studies, and Academic Writing.