This DERC webinar with Alex Gardner-McTaggart (Dean of arts and social sciences, British University of Bahrain) explores the notional operationalization of GCE in international schools. It aims to juxtapose the values of GCE with the operational realities of international schools, set as they are, in a competitive marketplace. In this presentation, the messaging and imagination of international schools is captured as narrative language, and interpreted through this lens. This session will be of significant interest to scholars and prospective teachers alike, and aims to foreground the potential of these extraordinary organizations and the limitations placed upon them. CHAIR Fran Hunt, Director of the Development Education Research Centre.

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3/18/2025

This session, part of the DERC webinar series, sees Elisabeth Barratt Hacking (University of Bath) explore and critique the International Baccalaureate's concept of 'International Mindedness,' one of many contemporary forms of global education. International mindedness is a concept particular to the International Baccalaureate (IB), a worldwide educational organisation. It can be described as an ideal, a concept and as practice and foundational to the IB mission. This seminar explores the IB’s particular approach to global education, that is, how International mindedness is conceptualised and practiced. Whilst most would see the ideal of becoming internationally minded as desirable, it is nevertheless a complex and contested concept. Chaired by Professor Doug Bourn. SPEAKER Elisabeth Barratt Hacking, Head of the Department of Education at the University of Bath

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6/4/2024