Internationalised School Teachers' Experiences of Precarity as Part of the Global Middle Class in China: Towards Resilience Capital

Autor/in	Poole, Adam
Titel	Internationalised School Teachers' Experiences of Precarity as Part of the Global Middle Class in China: Towards Resilience Capital
Quelle	In: Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 29 (2020) 3, S.227-235 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Poole, Adam)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0119-5646
DOI	10.1007/s40299-019-00472-2
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Foreign Workers; International Schools; Teaching Experience; Barriers; Resilience (Psychology); Teacher Attitudes; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; International school; Internationale Schule; Lehrerverhalten
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to explore three International School Teachers' experiences as part of the Global Middle Class (GMC) in China. This group is worthy of study, as their numbers are increasingly growing, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. However, little has been written about the negative aspects of sustained global mobility or how individuals, as opposed to families, accrue and deploy cosmopolitan capital for social advantage. In-depth interviewing was employed in order to bring into focus the participants' experiences of prolonged mobility. In addition to highlighting the precarious aspects of being part of the GMC, the study also identified and illustrated a new form of capital that emerged during data collection and analysis, which was labelled 'resilience capital'. Resilience capital is produced when teachers take a more positive attitude towards negative or precarious experiences, utilising them in order to develop skills, dispositions and endurance which also can be converted into more traditional economic and cultural forms of capital. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01