Importing Educators and Redefining What It Means to Be a Teacher in the U.S.

Autor/inn/en	Books, Sue; de Villiers, Rian
Titel	Importing Educators and Redefining What It Means to Be a Teacher in the U.S.
Quelle	In: Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 11 (2013) 2, S.82-122 (41 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1740-2743
Schlagwörter	Recruitment; Teacher Shortage; Collective Bargaining; Teacher Supply and Demand; Teaching (Occupation); Foreign Countries; Web Sites; Teacher Education Programs; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Lehrermangel; Tarifverhandlung; Lehrerbedarf; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Ausland; Web-Design; USA
Abstract	Unsubstantiated assertions of a U.S. teacher shortage are being used to rationalize recruitment of overseas-trained teachers--a practice fraught with difficulties, including loss to host countries of some of their best educators, abuse of some teachers working in legally precarious situations, and the possibility of displacing U.S. teachers with less costly colleagues. We affirm a universal right to meaningful work, yet find that overseas-trained teachers are ending up in highly problematic situations in the U.S., and fear that they are being pitted against U.S. teachers in a political struggle unrelated to teaching and learning. Battles over teachers' collective-bargaining rights and recruitment of overseas-trained teachers with little stake in those rights both are occurring in the context of a public discourse that takes for granted that teachers are overpaid and in short supply. Oversight mechanisms should be established to ensure that overseas-trained teachers are neither exploited nor used to disempower their U.S. colleagues. Also, purveyors of the public discourse on education should document much more carefully politically potent claims about teacher shortages. (Contains 1 figure, 3 tables, and 9 notes.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Institute for Education Policy Studies. University of Northampton, School of Education, Boughton Green Road, Northampton, NN2 7AL, UK. Tel: +44-1273-270943; e-mail: ieps@ieps.org.uk; Web site: http://www.jceps.com
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10