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In the last two decades in most parts of the world, the nature of teachers’ work and the knowledge they require has undergone enormous change. In part, these changes have occurred in response to unprecedented levels of global mobility. Culturally homogenous classrooms have become rare in most places in Britain, Europe and elsewhere, such as the USA, Canada and Australia (OECD, 2011). Of particular significance is the rapid rate of demographic change in some countries where there has been recent and relative cultural homogeneity, such as Iceland (OECD, 2013) and Ireland, for example (Government of Ireland, 2012).
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Santoro, N. (2016). The Cultural Diversification of the Scottish Teaching Profession. In: Schmidt, C., Schneider, J. (eds) Diversifying the Teaching Force in Transnational Contexts. Transnational Migration and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-663-7_1
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