Hong Kong-based Tefl/Tesol global academics
Life, culture, mobility, globalisation and cosmopolitanism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12726013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lydia Sin Ting Lam (City University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-107 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Globalisation Societies and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7724 • E-ISSN: 1476-7732 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14767724.2012.750456 |
| OpenAlex | W1989846973 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
This paper is about a qualitative research concerning a group of expatriates' (TEFL/TESOL English language teachers) experiences in Hong Kong. Data related to their life, attitudes and cultural dispositions are discussed under four different states, namely, Adaptation, Drifting in Global Comfort, Drifting in Global Discomfort and Bitter/Sweet Home. Together, these contribute to their mobility pattern – the Global Drift. The study discusses their global experiences and situations relating to the interplay of personal choice on the one hand and changing global and local processes and conditions on the other. It is argued that this is a self-perpetuating group sustained and reproduced by a Global Quality including distinct cultural dispositions, concepts of home and the reproduction of third-culture-kids, who are tailor-made for twenty-first-century mobile work. Finally, the research is situated in the study of cosmopolitanism, particularly in the identification of cosmopolitans and their dispositions. Alternative ways of theorising home (as interactive continuums) and issues related to mobility and dispositions will be discussed briefly
Adaptation (eye · Cosmopolitanism · Cultural globalization · Globalization · Pedagogy · Political science · Qualitative research · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology
At home in the world
Intercultural communication
The Transnational Capitalist Class
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Transnational Connections
Glocalization
Transnational Capitalist Class, The
Globalization and Culture
Globalization and Culture
Conceiving Cosmopolitanism
English as a foreign language, globalisation and conceptual questioning
Attitudes towards globalization and cosmopolitanism
Visuality, mobility and the cosmopolitan
Language in Hong Kong at Century's end
The Idea of Culture
Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture
Locating Cosmopolitanism
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2021 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |