Overview
- Provides a deliberate, systematic review of the vast international school sector
- Uses the term, ‘Global Imaginary’ in a new way to understand and advance the international school sector
- Contextualises how the idea of ‘the global’ is systematically constructed as both an inclusive and exclusive concept that benefits the sector and impacts the communities it serves
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About this book
This book offers a new perspective into the world of international schools and the lucrative industry that accompanies it. It examines how the notion of the ‘global’ becomes a successful commodity, an important social imaginary and a valuable identity marker for these communities of privileged migrants and host country nationals. The author invites the reader on an ethnographic journey through an international school community located in Germany – illuminating the central features that define and maintain the sector, including its emphasis on ‘globality’, engagement with the concept of ‘Third Culture Kid’, and its wider contentious relationship with the ‘local’. While much attention is placed on ‘global citizenship’, international school communities experience degrees of isolation, limited mobility, over-protection and dependency on the school community– impacting their everyday lives, inside and outside the school. This book is guided by larger questions pertaining to the educationand mobilities of ‘migrant’ youths and young adults, as well as the notion of what it means to be ‘global’ today.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Global Imaginary of International School Communities
Authors: Heather A. Meyer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72744-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72743-7Published: 08 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72746-8Published: 08 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72744-4Published: 07 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 245
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Schools and Schooling, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Ethnography