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    Mobility, On-the-Ground Realities and the Limits of Negotiability

    Series Book 108 - New Perspectives on Language and Education
    This book embarks on an ever-expanding array of language, academic mobility, neoliberalism, and accompanying rich scholarly debates. It examines the ways in which international English language teachers in Saudi Arabia’s higher education system position themselves, negotiate, interact, adjust, make sense of their classroom dynamics, and validate their senses of selves and pedagogies in their day ... Read more

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  • Desiring TESOL and International Education

    Market Abuse and Exploitation

    Series Book 37 - New Perspectives on Language and Education
    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 ... Read more

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