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Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor
Lora Bartlett
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Hardback. A technocratic view of teachers as credentialed specialists has led to a growing reliance on migrant teachers, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. The author investigates the result: transient teaching professionals with little opportunity to connect meaningfully with their students. Num Pages: 170 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. schools today: the growing reliance on teachers trained overseas. This timely study maps the shifting landscape of American education, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. Lora Bartlett asserts that a narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has spurred some public school districts to look abroad. When these districts use overseas-trained teachers as transient, migrant labor, the teachers have little opportunity to connect well with their students, thereby reducing the effectiveness of their teaching. Approximately 90,000 teachers from the Philippines, ... Read more
Migrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. schools today: the growing reliance on teachers trained overseas. This timely study maps the shifting landscape of American education, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. Lora Bartlett asserts that a narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has spurred some public school districts to look abroad. When these districts use overseas-trained teachers as transient, migrant labor, the teachers have little opportunity to connect well with their students, thereby reducing the effectiveness of their teaching. Approximately 90,000 teachers from the Philippines, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
170
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
445g
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674055360
SKU
V9780674055360
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About Lora Bartlett
Lora Bartlett is Associate Professor of Education at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Reviews for Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor
This important study persuasively describes the motivations for teacher migration and the insecurity of their tenure in America, and reveals, for the first time, how dependent some urban schools have become on overseas-trained teachers.
Rhacel Salazar Parre as, author of Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes A powerful exploration of a significant and neglected issue in American education. ... Read more
Rhacel Salazar Parre as, author of Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes A powerful exploration of a significant and neglected issue in American education. ... Read more