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Publication Date: 2018-Jun
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Minority-World Professionals in Majority-World Early Childhood Contexts: How Do International Field Experiences Promote Intercultural Competence or Reinforce "Professional" Ethnocentrism?
Madrid Akpovo, Samara; Nganga, Lydiah
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, v19 n2 p199-205 Jun 2018
This colloquium problematizes the use of early childhood international field experiences as a tool for professional development with Euro-Western pre-service and in-service teachers. The authors critique experiences where minority-world educators teach or implement internships within majority-world contexts. It is critical for Euro-Western teacher education programs to provide pre-service and in-service teachers with opportunities to expand their global views of the early childhood professional through international field experiences. But how can this be done when conceptions of the "professional" are constructed in Euro-Western images, ideas, curricula, ideologies, and privilege? The authors make a call for early childhood teacher educators to reconsider, deconstruct, and re-examine themselves and their pre-service and in-service teachers' rationale for engaging in international field experiences.
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Faculty Development, Field Experience Programs, Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Attitudes, World Views, Cultural Awareness, Criticism, Ethnocentrism, Barriers, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Cultural Differences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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