1: The Continuous Growth: The Emergent Natural Stage of Anomie

Our book is concerned with the lived experience of teaching and working in a substantially growing area of ‘International Education’ activity that might best be termed loosely as ‘International Schooling’. Dugonjic-Rodwin (2021, p. 6) identifies ‘international education’ as a ‘global field – based on the specific institutions and categories of perception that have shaped it.’ Within this broad ‘global field’ of schooling, there exists a continuously growing domain of ‘private, K-12, English-immersion’ (Tarc, Mishra Tarc, & Wu, 2019, p. 666) educational institutions termed loosely as ‘international schools’. Such schools defy consensus definition, but one perspective (Bunnell, 2019a, p. 10) views this area of schooling as involving: