The well-known international contributors to this book move beyond simply describing the issues, and instead suggest ways in which the complex and often contradictory tensions within the world of international schooling and its global contexts must be examined critically.

Richard Bates is Professor of Social and Administrative Studies in the Faculty of Education at Deakin University, Australia.

1. Introduction2. Global Networking and the World of International Education3. The Political Economy of International Schools and Social Class Formation4. International Schools and Micropolitics: Fear, Vulnerability and Identity in Fragmented Space5. Teachers for International Schools of the Future6. Teaching and Learning in International Schools: A Consideration of Stakeholders and their Expectations7. International Curriculum8. Assessment in International Schools9. The International Baccalaureate: Its Growth and Complexity of Challenges10. Education for Global Citizenship: Reflecting on the Instrumentalist Agendas at Play