Migrant teachers : how American schools import labor / Lora Bartlett

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartlett, Lora, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Urban--United States.

Education, Urban.

Teachers, Foreign--United States.

Teachers, Foreign.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing reliance on teachers trained overseas, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. A narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has led districts to look abroad, Lora Bartlett asserts, resulting in transient teaching professionals with little opportunity to connect meaningfully with students. Highly recruited by inner-city school districts that struggle to attract educators, approximately 90,000 teachers from the Philippines, India, and other countries came to the United States between 2002 and 2008. From administrators' perspective, these instructors are excellent employees--well educated and able to teach subjects like math, science, and special education where teachers are in short supply. Despite the additional recruitment of qualified teachers, American schools are failing to reap the possible benefits of the global labor market. Bartlett shows how the framing of these recruited teachers as stopgap, low-status workers cultivates a high-turnover, low-investment workforce that undermines the conditions needed for good teaching and learning. Bartlett calls on schools to provide better support to both overseas-trained teachers and their American counterparts

Contents:

Introduction and overview

The scope and pattern of overseas trained teachers in U.S. schools

The perfect policy storm: colonization, education, and immigration

Transnational teacher motivations and pathways

Navigating migration

A tale of two schools: the transient school and the transplant school

Teachers' work

Transnational teacher migration

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on print version record

ISBN:

9780674727526

0674727525

9780674726345

0674726340

OCLC:

1013955465