TY - JOUR
T1 - Paradoxical inscriptions of global subjects
T2 - Critical discourse analysis of international schools’ websites in the Asia-Pacific Region
AU - Tamatea, Laurence
AU - Ninnes, Peter
AU - Hardy, Joy
PY - 2008/9/1
Y1 - 2008/9/1
N2 - This paper presents an analysis of Asia–Pacific international school web pages, and explores the expressed purposes of schooling, with regard to the kinds of students/subjects that the schools purport to produce. Using the concept of globalization as a ‘master’ analytical frame, it is argued that despite claims to offering students unique experiences, international school web pages reproduce similar discourses in the construction of the student as an individual, member of a community and world‐changing global citizen. Importantly, it is argued that while such discourses are often contradictory, this is nowhere more exemplified than in the claims to produce global citizens.
AB - This paper presents an analysis of Asia–Pacific international school web pages, and explores the expressed purposes of schooling, with regard to the kinds of students/subjects that the schools purport to produce. Using the concept of globalization as a ‘master’ analytical frame, it is argued that despite claims to offering students unique experiences, international school web pages reproduce similar discourses in the construction of the student as an individual, member of a community and world‐changing global citizen. Importantly, it is argued that while such discourses are often contradictory, this is nowhere more exemplified than in the claims to produce global citizens.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84905449871&origin=inward&txGid=cac26319889bd70a5045032e9201280d
U2 - 10.1080/17508480802040241
DO - 10.1080/17508480802040241
M3 - Article
VL - 49
SP - 157
EP - 170
JO - Critical Studies in Education
JF - Critical Studies in Education
SN - 0076-6275
IS - 2
ER -