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The Diversity Paradox in International Education: A Critical Examination of Discourses of Difference book cover

1st Edition

The Diversity Paradox in International Education A Critical Examination of Discourses of Difference

By Lucy Bailey Copyright 2026
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume presents the first-known investigation of the so-called diversity paradox, positing that diversity has become a tool for distinguishing and legitimating the concept of educated Western elites, and arguing for a major reconceptualisation of diversity in different social and cultural contexts within international education. Drawing on extensive theorising and empirical studies of... Read more

1. The Diversity Mandate

2. A Culture of Diversity: Diversity, performativity culture, and the reproduction of advantage in international education

3. The Reification of Ethnicity: The selective commodification of ethnic diversity in international education

4. The Engendering of Conflict: Exploring gender diversity and gendered inequalities in international education

5. The Heterogenization of Sexuality: Offence and exclusion in international education communities

6. The Celebration of Youth: Analysing age inequalities in international education

7. (Con)forming Bodies and Minds: Disability and neurodiversity in interna9onal education

8.The Deification and Demonization of Migration: Exploring the uneasy relationship between international education, migration and the discourse of diversity

9. Blame the Teachers: Diversity and the derision of educators in international education

10. Diversifying Diversity: Reconceptualising diversity for international and internationalised education

Biography

Lucy Bailey is a researcher of international education and is currently serving as the dean of the Bahrain Teachers College, Bahrain.

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