ABSTRACT
It is evident that international schools and international education are intimately linked with the processes of globalization. It may be argued that not only are international schools influenced by globalization, by operating in a global market, but they also facilitate its propagation and spread by easing the mobility of expatriate families involved with globalizing institutions such as multinational businesses, financial institutions, development agencies and non-governmental and parastatal organizations. Many international schools also allow the participation of those sectors of their host country populations whose social and economic interests coincide with the ‘transnational capitalist class’ (Sklair, 2001). Furthermore, as employers of locally recruited professional, clerical and manual workers, international schools may exert an important local economic influence in some countries by reproducing business practices derived from elsewhere in the world.
