Tens of thousands of Western ‘teachers’, many of whom would not be regarded as teachers elsewhere, are employed to teach English in private and non-private education in China. Little has prior to now been known, apart from anecdotally, about their experiences, about the effect they have got on education in the context, or on students’ perceptions of ‘the West’ that result from this contact. This book is an ethnographic study of Westerners’ lived experiences teaching English in Shanghai, China. It is based on three years of groundbreaking research into the pre-service training, classroom practices, personal identities and motives, and local socially constructed roles of a group of ‘backpacker teachers’ from the United Kingdom, the united states and Canada. This can be a study that goes beyond the school room, addressing broader questions about the sociology, and politics, of transnational education and China’s evolving relationship with the out of doors world.
Education Studies & Teaching
A Critical Ethnography of ‘Westerners’ Teaching English in China: Shanghaied in Shanghai Paperback – 1 February 2017
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