Hardy, Joy

Tamatea, Laurence Martin

Ninnes, Peter Martin

2005

This paper analyses the various purposes of schooling to which international schools in the Asia-Pacific region subscribe. Whereas international schools started off as institutions catering to the children of western expatriates, new forms of international schools now exist, in response to a wide range of phenomenon, including globalisation. Using a sample of 100 websites of international school in the Asia-Pacific region, we undertook a critical discourse analysis of their expressed purposes of schooling, with a particular emphasis on the kinds of students/citizens/subjects that the schools purported to produce, and the relationship between these subjectivities and various global issues including peace, cultural diversity and environmental sustainability.

Questioning 'Best Practise' In Education: Benefits And Disadvantages, Debates and Dilemmas: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society, p. 68-81

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https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2065

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University of New England, Centre for Research on Education in Context

International Schools and the Constitution of Global Subjects in the Asia-Pacific Region

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