The Diversity Paradox in International Education
A Critical Examination of Discourses of Difference
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The Diversity Paradox in International Education
A Critical Examination of Discourses of Difference
About this book
This volume presents the first-known investigation of the so-called diversity paradox, positing that diversity has become a tool for distinguishing and legitimating the concept of educated Western elites, and arguing for a major reconceptualisation of diversity in different social and cultural contexts within international education.
Drawing on extensive theorising and empirical studies of international school leadership, international school parents and pupils, institutional faculty, online sources and the author's own wealth of experience teaching and leading in international contexts, the book investigates how this vision for education has emerged, contrasting it to both how education is seen in other parts of the world and how it has been conceptualised at other historical junctures. Exploring the positioning of teachers, academics and educational leaders in this discursive shift, chapters examine specific aspects of diversity, demonstrating how they have become areas of social conflict, serving to legitimise privilege in Western educational contexts while excluding other understandings of social cohesion and social inequalities. The book offers a novel approach to the analysis of international education by combining sociological and linguistic elements on which to base the argument.
Ultimately critiquing diversity as a rhetorical device that perpetuates structural and systemic inequalities, the book explores how diverse perspectives can be brought to the discussion of diversity itself and will therefore appeal to scholars, postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of the sociology of education, international and comparative education, and higher education.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Author
- 1 The Diversity Mandate
- 2 A Culture of Diversity: Diversity, Performativity Culture and the Reproduction of Advantage in International Education
- 3 The Reification of Ethnicity: The Selective Commodification of Ethnic Diversity in International Education
- 4 The Engendering of Conflict: Exploring Gender Diversity and Gendered Inequalities in International Education
- 5 The Heterogenisation of Sexuality: Offence and Exclusion in International Educational Communities
- 6 The Celebration of Youth: Reconceptualising Age Inequalities in International Education
- 7 (Con)forming Bodies and Minds: Disability and Neurodiversity in International Education
- 8 The Deification and Demonisation of Migration: Exploring the Uneasy Relationship between International Education, Mobility and Diversity Discourse
- 9 Blame the Teachers: Diversity and the Derision of Educators in International Education
- 10 Diversifying Diversity: Reconceptualising Diversity for International Education
- Index