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Channel View Publications Ltd Desiring TESOL and International Education Market Abuse and Exploitation 2014 Edition by Raqib Chowdhury, Phan Le Ha
This book addresses how Western universities have constructed themselves as global providers of education, and are driven to be globally competitive. It examines how the term 'international' has been exploited by the market in the form of government educational policies and agencies, host institutions, academia and the mass media. The book explores matters relating to the role of the English language in international education in general and the field of TESOL in particular. It demonstrates how English and TESOL have exercised their symbolic power, coupled with the desire for international education, to create convenient identities for international TESOL students. It also discusses the complexity surrounding and informing these students' painful yet sophisticated appropriation of and resistance to the convenient labels they are subjected to. Table of contents :- Preface1. Looking into the Problem2. Power, Discourse, Desire and International Education3. Globalisation, International Education and Questions of Identity4. Constructing the 'Truths' of International Student Subjectivities5. From Global to Local - Learning Supermarkets in the National Interest: International Education and the Australian Government6. The Fabric of Relations: Desire and the Formation of Choices7. Brokering Identity8. Rika: 'The Spotlight of Difference'9. Purchasing the 'Good'10. Reconstructing the Discourses of International Education