By Mary Hayden
ISBN-10: 1412919991
ISBN-13: 9781412919999
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ISBN-13: 9781412920001
ISBN-10: 184787861X
ISBN-13: 9781847878618
Written via a professional within the box of overseas schooling, this entire advisor examines the foremost topics of this evolving box. The ebook explores some of the origins, definitions and classifications of foreign schooling, and considers the audiences it serves, together with the scholars, lecturers, mom and dad and directors. It additionally appears to be like at concerns together with caliber insurance and function of foreign colleges sooner or later.
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Other Groupings As the number of international schools grows, so too does the number of networks or groupings operating in this context and based on varying philosophies: those mentioned briefly above are just some of the more well established among them. qxd 20 8/7/2006 2:49 PM Page 20 Introduction to International Education closely in each case to a mainstream Dutch school (Koopman, 1991), while those such as the Japanese schools found in a number of countries (YamadaYamamoto and Richards, 1998) cater for particular national groupings.
International schools may come into conflict with demanding parents. Some, as recommended by Ezra (2003: 141), provide counselling and other forms of parental support: indeed many have taken upon themselves more roles and responsibilities than would ever be considered reasonable to expect of a school in a national system, in terms of support for the wider family as well as for the child. Recognising that supporting the mother in such circumstances indirectly supports the child (and there is much anecdotal evidence to suggest that the extent to which the mother is settled and content in the new environment is the strongest single indicator of the extent to which the child will be settled and content), some actively encourage the involvement of mothers in the school.
The importance attached by parents to the use of English as a medium of instruction in all schools referred to in these studies may well be a dispiriting finding for those committed to the ideological notion of international education as a force for promoting global understanding. qxd 38 8/5/2006 5:12 PM Page 38 Introduction to International Education schools’ referred to by Deveney? Such a finding might not, however, surprise those with long experience of the international school sector. Richards, for instance, an international school head with teaching and management experience in a number of different international schools, noted that ‘It is (the) alchemy of idealism and pragmatism that determines the individual characteristics of international schools around the world; their clients are not all imbued with a sense of mission, other than to do what is best for their children within the locally imposed limits’ (1998: 174).
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