"No-One Ever Asked Me": The Invisible Experiences and Contribution of Australian Emigrant Teachers

Autor/inn/en	Reid, Carol; Collins, Jock
Titel	"No-One Ever Asked Me": The Invisible Experiences and Contribution of Australian Emigrant Teachers
Quelle	In: Race, Ethnicity and Education, 16 (2013) 2, S.268-290 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1361-3324
DOI	10.1080/13613324.2012.674022
Schlagwörter	Immigrants; Foreign Countries; Teacher Attitudes; Teaching Experience; Teacher Qualifications; Ethnicity; Minority Group Teachers; Faculty Mobility; Social Theories; Comparative Analysis; Teacher Characteristics; Statistical Analysis; Mixed Methods Research; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Ausland; Lehrerverhalten; Lehrqualifikation; Ethnizität; Gesellschaftstheorie; Statistische Analyse; Australien
Abstract	Teachers possess qualifications and experience that opens the door to professional migration. It is common when considering the diversity or otherwise of the teaching profession to treat the dominant group of teachers in terms of ethnicity as the other side of a simplistic binary. That is, the immigrant or minority background teacher versus the culturally homogenous mainstream teacher. There is little research that examines the experiences and contributions of teachers from the dominant group who have themselves been emigrant teachers. In this article the results of a nationally funded research partnership across three states in Australia examines issues that face many globally mobile teachers. These include negotiating the qualification process and the acquiring of appropriate immigration permits, their experience in classrooms, the reasons that they wanted to teach overseas and their overall evaluation of the experience. The article first looks at the methodology and characteristics of the sample before exploring the emigrant teachers experience from leaving Australia to getting to teach in classrooms abroad, and, in most cases, finally returning to Australia. These experiences are then analysed using Bourdieu's (1984) theory of reconversion to reflect on the comparative similarities and differences between minority and/or immigrant and emigrant teachers in Australia. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10