Summary:

The authors point out that because of the increasing mobility and globalisation teachers are getting highly mobile around the world. Immigrant and emigrant teachers are seen as an example for the increasing international movement of people who will become more important in the twenty-first Century. By using such a broad perspective on teacher mobility, a variety of key drivers of global teacher mobility is identified: “a range of factors including family, lifestyle, classroom experience, travel, opportunities for advancement, discipline, linguistic skills, taxation rates, cultural factors and institutional frameworks and policy support” (back cover).

Reid et al. emphasise that there would be a teacher shortage without migrant teachers in western countries as well as they note an increasing interest of especially English-speaking teachers to work in fast-developing Asian and non-English speaking countries. Despite this need for teacher mobility in some areas the boundaries for internationally educated teachers to be able to work as a teacher abroad are high. Reid et al. give a differentiated overview on the topic of teacher mobility with a special focus on Australia. The book is divided in nine chapters:

1. Introduction

2. Globalising Teachers: Policy and Theoretical Dimensions

3. Immigrant Teachers in Australia: Quantitative Insights

4. Global Teachers’ Pathways to Australia

5. The Capital Reconversion of Global Teachers in Australia

6. Internationally Educated Teachers’ Critiques of Tests of Their Employability

7. Global Teachers Living and Teaching in Australia

8. Goodbye ‘Mr Chips’: The Global Mobility od Australian-Educated Teachers

9. Revisiting Ms Banerjee and Mr Chips

Language: English