ERIC Number: EJ1129164
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-2162-3104
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Cross-Cultural Student Teaching: Examining the Meaning-Making of One White, Female, Middle-Class Preservice Teacher
Shedrow, Stephanie J.
Journal of International Students, v7 n2 p270-290 2017
While teacher educators implement diverse student teaching placements for preservice teachers as a means of bridging the cultural mismatch in classrooms around the United States, researchers have only recently begun to tap into the role that preservice teachers' "whiteness" plays in their ideologies. As such, the purpose of this study was to better understand how one white, female preservice teacher made meaning of her experiences during a cross-cultural experiential learning (CCEL) student teaching placement abroad. Analyzing if and how previous intercultural interactions were drawn upon while abroad, as well as how experiences abroad were employed once returning to the US, findings suggest that cultural competency does not directly equate to recognizing whiteness and the privileges associated.
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Cross Cultural Training, Multicultural Education, Intergroup Education, Sensitivity Training, Student Experience, Student Placement, Experiential Learning, Interpersonal Competence, Females, White Students, Study Abroad, Advantaged, Ideology, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews, Observation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United States; Uganda
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