Policies and Pedagogies of Canadian Offshore Schools - Geopolitical Dynamics, Internationalization, New Modalities of

This book critically examines the international, geopolitical, policy, institutional, and curricular challenges facing Canadian offshore school programs.

List of contents

1. Editorial Introduction Fei Wang & André Elias Mazawi Part 1: Borders, Partnerships, and Bordering Capabilities 2. Assemblages of Territory, Political Authority, and Rights: The "Bordering Capabilities" of BC Certified Offshore School Programs 3. A Focus on Manitoba's Offshore School in Egypt 4. What counts as "educated citizens": Discussing how whiteness is represented by British Columbia offshore schools in non-Western contexts Part 2: Navigating Entangled Workplaces 5. Working in Offshore Schools - The Good, The Bad, and The Odd: Stories from Inspectors, Principals and Teachers 6. "Are you a moral imperialist for doing what you do there?": Thoughts on moral rightness from principals of Canadian-accredited schools in China Lee Smith Part 3: Pedagogical Encounters and Their Discontents 7. The post-pandemic re-positioning of a Canadian bilingual offshore school in the Paris region: the value-added of purpose, presence, and place 8. Student Perspectives of Pedagogies, Teachers, and Language Policies in Three British Columba Offshore Schools in China 9. Lingering between the Local and the Global: Decolonized Cosmopolitanism Informed Pedagogy in Offshore Schools 10. Afterword-Offshore Schools: Uncertain Futures Amid Shifting Tensions

About the author

Fei Wang is Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Administration in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
André Elias Mazawi is Professor, Sociologist of Education, at the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Summary

This book critically examines the international, geopolitical, policy, institutional, and curricular challenges facing Canadian offshore school programs.

Product details

• Authors: Fei (University of British Columbia Wang
• Assisted by: André Elias Mazawi (Editor), Fei Wang (Editor), Wang Fei (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.07.2024
• EAN: 9781032422282
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3242228-2
• No. of pages: 18
• Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Canada, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Home Schooling, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian, EDUCATION / Distance, Open & Online Education, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government, Multicultural education, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, Open learning, home learning, distance education, Open learning, distance education