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Social class and the construction of international mindedness: A comparative study of International Baccalaureate Schools in Ecuador
Journal of Research in International Education Pub Date : 2020-08-01 , DOI: 10.1177/1475240920954046
Tiago Bittencourt 1
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The purpose of this paper is to examine how students inhabiting distinctive social spaces and experiencing considerably different material realities define, value and problematize the concept of international mindedness. Drawing on a larger multi-sited ethnographic study of two International Baccalaureate schools in Ecuador, the study found that while students from distinct social backgrounds provided similar definitions of what international mindedness entails, they differed notably in what they considered to be the value and potential pitfalls of embodying the concept as a personal disposition. These differences emerged primarily as a result of how students related to their immediate surroundings and the assumptions they made about their future lives. Focusing on students’ constructions of ‘place’ and their imagined futures provides an important insight into how students engage with international mindedness specifically, and the International Baccalaureate more broadly. Furthermore, it attests to why matters related to ‘social class’ deserve a greater degree of scholarly attention.

中文翻译:

社会阶层与国际化思维建设:厄瓜多尔国际文凭学校的比较研究

本文的目的是考察学生如何生活在独特的社会空间和经历相当不同的物质现实,如何定义、重视和问题化国际情怀的概念。该研究借鉴了对厄瓜多尔两所国际文凭学校进行的更大范围的多地点民族志研究,发现虽然来自不同社会背景的学生对国际情怀的含义提供了相似的定义,但他们在他们认为的价值和潜在陷阱方面存在显着差异将概念体现为个人性格。这些差异的出现主要是由于学生与周围环境的关系以及他们对未来生活的假设。关注学生对“地方”的构建和他们想象中的未来,提供了一个重要的洞察力,让我们深入了解学生如何具体地融入国际意识,以及更广泛的国际文凭课程。此外,它证明了为什么与“社会阶层”相关的问题值得更多的学术关注。
更新日期:2020-08-01
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