Global teachers, Australian Perspective

Introduction .- Chapter 1) Introduction.- Chapter 2) Globalizing Teachers: policy and theoretical dimensions.- Chapter 3) Immigrant Teachers in Australia: Quantitative Insights.- Chapter 4) Global Teachers' Pathways to Australia.- Chapter 5) The Capital Reconversion of Global Teachers in Australia.- Chapter 6) Internationally Educated Teachers' Critiques of Tests of their Employability.- Chapter 7) Global Teachers Living and Teaching in Australia.- Chapter 8) Goodbye 'Mr Chips': the global mobility of Australian-educated teachers.- Chapter 9) Revisiting Ms Banerjee and Mr Chips.

Associate Professor Carol Reid (PhD) (Centre for Educational Research, University of Western Sydney) is a sociologist of education whose research focuses on issues of ethnicity, race and education. Associate Professor Reid has a particular interest in the cultural diversity of the teaching profession and teachers work and is also well known in the south-west region of Sydney for having led a number of projects related to ethnicity, youth, education and social exclusion. Carol has been a visiting scholar in Canada and Sweden and has received external research grants from the Australian Research Council, Department of Immigration and Citizenship and Canadian Government. Carol is a regular contributor to media debates regarding education.

Professor Jock Collins (Professor of Social Economics, Management Discipline Group, University of Technology, Sydney, Business School, and Co-Director Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney) has been with the University of Technology, Sydney, since 1977. Prior to that he was a tutor in the Economics Department, University of Sydney. Writing on Australian immigration matters since the early 1970s, Jock is the author of two books and over forty articles in international and national journals and edited books. Jock has been a consultant to the New South Wales Ethnic Affairs Com-mission, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the New South Wales Department of Treasury. He has received external research grants from the Australian Research Council, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and the Canadian Government. He often comments on immigration matters in the media in Australia and has an international reputation in the area.

Professor Michael Singh (PhD) is Director of the Research Oriented School-based Eurasian Teacher Education (ROSETE) Partnership, a ten year long West-ern Sydney-Ningbo project to produce teacher-researchers who can use Chinese theoretic-linguistic assets and