International Education in Global Times

This book illuminates the changing landscape and expediency of international education in global times. Within this larger picture, the book focuses on the educational effects of international encounters, experiences and lessons - the complex processes of learning and subject formation in play during and after one's international/intercultural experience.

Auteur

Paul Tarc received his PhD in culture, language, and teaching at York University, Toronto. He is Assistant Professor on the Faculty of Education at Western University in London, Ontario. His publications include Global Dreams, Enduring Tensions: International Baccalaureate in a Changing World (Peter Lang, 2009) and a chapter in Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Citizenship Education (2011).

Contenu

Contents: The Rise of International Education: Expanded Opportunities, New Complications - The Challenge of Learning across Difference: Employing The Elephant and the Blind Men - It Changed My Life! Lessons from Study Abroad - Lessons from Overseas Teaching: International Schools in the Global South - Fostering Cosmopolitan Literacies: Toward Educating International Education.