International Schooling

Lucy Bailey invites stakeholders in international schools to critically examine their likely contribution to global inequality and, equipped with this perspective, suggests pathways to support agendas for progressivism and equity in education. This lucid book should be essential reading for all international school stakeholders whether educators, parents, governors, or investors. --Darren Bryant, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Education Policy and Leadership, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong The distinction of international schools and their breath-taking growth appears to have outstripped professional safeguards and lived ethics. While the optics of the industry remain pedantically mired in systemised injustices and inequities, Lucy Bailey takes firm aim at a sector in need of a soul, not a mission statement. Bravo! --Alexander Gardner-McTaggart, Lecturer in Educational Leadership, The University of Manchester, UK Integrating her own research with a comprehensive review of recent literature, Lucy Bailey's International Schooling... is a vital resource for enhancing understandings of international schooling. Juxtaposing analytic angles and empirical vignettes, Bailey offers a set of core registers and significant fault lines for studying this heterogenous and dynamic movement. --Paul Tarc, Associate Professor, Western University, Canada This book offers a scholarly exploration, from a mainly sociological perspective, of a range of issues arising in the burgeoning field of international schooling. Engaging with issues of privilege, power, diversity and equality, the book will be of value both to those charged with the promotion of international education in schools and to those researching in the field. --Dr Mary Hayden, Professor of International Education, University of Bath, UK