International Schools, Teaching and Governance : An Autoethnography of a Teacher in Conflict

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Story from Start to Finish....Pages 3-48 Re-theorising and Re-problematising Conflict from a Posthumanist Stance: Meaning, Truth, and Understanding in a Posthumanist World....Pages 49-68 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 The International School: Taking Stock of a World ‘Commodity’—Leadership and Management....Pages 71-85 The Apparatuses of Conflict....Pages 87-117 The Dark Side: Teacher Emotions and Their Affect/Effect on Conflict....Pages 119-148 Concluding on a More Optimistic Note....Pages 149-162 Back Matter....Pages 163-192 This book examines how injustice based on social positioning is performed within the context of international schools. Drawing on the lived experiences of an international school teacher, it proposes and explores the notion that teachers, in being constituted and positioned as subordinate within the hierarchy that is the international school, leads to their being wronged on three counts: epistemically for being wrongfully mistrusted; ethically for being wrongfully excluded; and ontologically for being wrongfully positioned as a lesser human being. The book addresses the dearth of research currently available on conflict in international schools and how conflict between teachers and administrators is dealt with in and by such institutions. It will be valuable reading for students and teachers of education and sociology, and those interested in the workings of international schools. This text examines how injustice based on social positioning is performed within the context of international schools. Drawing on the lived experiences of an international school teacher, it proposes and explores the notion that teachers, in being constituted and positioned as subordinate within the hierarchy that is the international school, leads to their being wronged on three counts: epistemically for being wrongfully mistrusted; ethically for being wrongfully excluded; and ontologically for being wrongfully positioned as a lesser human being