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How Global Capital is Remaking International Education

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The past fifteen years have seen the expansion of a mode of international schooling that is corporate, favorable to big firms, and increasingly a challenge to state regulation. This chapter introduces international school operators and locates them in the global education industry.

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    For a school to gain IB certification, teachers undergo only the lightest of training programs. As a school administrator, I have known teachers who are disappointed that a school’s IB accreditation does not give them an opportunity for further training. I have also observed a teacher transfer from a non-IB school to an IB school without receiving additional training. Nonetheless, many schools allow parents to believe that their teachers have received special IB training.

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Kim, H. (2019). Introduction. In: How Global Capital is Remaking International Education. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9672-5_1

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