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Hear, Oh Hear, the Voices of the Marginalised

Assumptions, Methods and Implications in Capturing the Voices of Expatriate Teachers in Korea

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In large organisations and societies, there are people on the margins of the community whose voices largely go unacknowledged and underrepresented. Academic communities are no exception in this regard. With globalisation and internalisation on the rise, a greater number of students have travelled to study abroad, and more people than ever before have left their home country to teach on foreign soil.

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  1. Seokyeong University, Seoul, Korea

    Christian Y. Shin

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  1. University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    Warren Midgley

  2. Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar

    Andy Davies

  3. University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    Mark E. Oliver

  4. University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    Patrick Alan Danaher

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Shin, C.Y. (2014). Hear, Oh Hear, the Voices of the Marginalised. In: Midgley, W., Davies, A., Oliver, M.E., Danaher, P.A. (eds) Echoes. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-491-8_7

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