Teachers’ work in the age of migration: A cosmopolitan analysis

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to examine the notion of super-diversity beyond descriptions of mobilities in order to argue for a reconceptualization of teachers’ work. A national project on the global movement of teachers is drawn on to argue that cosmopolitan theory may provide a useful framework for understanding the changing subjectivities of teachers in the context of a globalised world. In particular, cosmopolitan dispositions are explored to illuminate the ways in which super-diversity not only shapes teachers’ work but is part of teachers’ subjectivities.