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This chapter is situated within the scholarship of cultural sociology of education with a view to understand the contemporary work of elite schools in globalising circumstances. It seeks to lay bare the theoretical, conceptual and pedagogical underpinnings of a ‘mobile curriculum’.
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Koh, A. (2014). Mobile Curriculum. In: Arber, R., Blackmore, J., Vongalis-Macrow, A. (eds) Mobile Teachers, Teacher Identity and International Schooling. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-899-2_3
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