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Research Articles

Negotiating ‘global middle-class’ teacher professionalism: using transnational habitus to explore the experiences of teacher expatriates in Shanghai

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Pages 1781-1794 | Received 28 Mar 2020, Accepted 12 May 2021, Published online: 04 Aug 2021

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