Desiring Tesol and International Education - Market Abuse and Exploitation

This book addresses how Western universities have constructed themselves as global providers of education, and are driven to be globally competitive. It also explores 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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Raqib Chowdhury, Phan Le Ha, Phan Le Ha
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2014
• EAN: 9781783091485
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-148-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 211 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: New Perspectives on Language a; New Perspectives on Language a
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology