Hong Kong-Based TEFL/TESOL Global Academics: Life, Culture, Mobility, Globalisation and Cosmopolitanism

Autor/in	Lam, Lydia S. T.
Titel	Hong Kong-Based TEFL/TESOL Global Academics: Life, Culture, Mobility, Globalisation and Cosmopolitanism
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 11 (2013) 1, S.85-107 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
DOI	10.1080/14767724.2012.750456
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Qualitative Research; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Language Teachers; Teaching Experience; Teacher Attitudes; Acculturation; Faculty Mobility; Cultural Differences; Family Environment; Global Approach; Foreign Nationals; Life Style; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Qualitative Forschung; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Lehrerverhalten; Akkulturation; Kultureller Unterschied; Familienmilieu; Globales Denken; Ausländer; Ausländerin; Lebensstil; Hongkong
Abstract	This paper is about a qualitative research concerning a group of expatriates' (TEFL/TESOL English language teachers) experiences in Hong Kong. Data related to their life, attitudes and cultural dispositions are discussed under four different states, namely, Adaptation, Drifting in Global Comfort, Drifting in Global Discomfort and Bitter/Sweet Home. Together, these contribute to their mobility pattern--the Global Drift. The study discusses their global experiences and situations relating to the interplay of personal choice on the one hand and changing global and local processes and conditions on the other. It is argued that this is a self-perpetuating group sustained and reproduced by a Global Quality including distinct cultural dispositions, concepts of home and the reproduction of third-culture-kids, who are tailor-made for twenty-first-century mobile work. Finally, the research is situated in the study of cosmopolitanism, particularly in the identification of cosmopolitans and their dispositions. Alternative ways of theorising home (as interactive continuums) and issues related to mobility and dispositions will be discussed briefly. (Contains 2 figures, 2 tables and 17 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10