Teachers in international schools: a global educational 'precariat'?. (1st October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bunnell, Tristan
• Is Part Of: Globalisation, societies and education. Volume 14:Number 4(2016)
• Page Start: 543
• Page End: 559
• Publication Date: 2016-10-01
• Subjects: Precarious -- international schools -- international educators -- labour flexibility -- teaching abroad; Globalization -- Periodicals; Globalization -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Education -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Education -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals; Education and state -- Periodicals; Educational sociology -- Periodicals; International education -- Periodicals; 379
• DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2015.1068163
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1476-7724

Abstract

Abstract : An over-looked global educational development has been the exponential growth of 'international schools'. The field in 2014 involved almost 350, 000 educators in over 7000 English-medium schools in non-English-speaking countries. This is expected to rise to half a million educators, mainly American and British, in 10, 000 schools by 2022. The field has never constituted a 'system', and it remains largely uninspected, unmonitored and unregulated. There was substantial evidence from both social media comment and real-life reports in the popular press during 2013 and 2014 that the field is becoming an increasingly precarious one for teachers.