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Transformative Learning within an International Teaching Experience: Developing as Emerging Culturally Responsive Teachers
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Jacobs, Jennifer; Haberlin, Steve – Action in Teacher Education, 2022
Within the teacher education literature, international teaching experiences are lauded as opportunities for teacher candidates to develop multiple perspectives and cultural awareness. The purpose of this study was to understand the experience of 12 teacher candidates who engaged in an international teaching experience in Costa Rica. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Experience
Building Capacity and Changing Mental Models: The Impact of a Short-Term Overseas Teaching Experience on White Teacher Candidates from a Rural Midwestern College
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Burgard, Karen L. B.; Boucher, Michael L., Jr.; Johnston, Kathryn L. – Action in Teacher Education, 2018
This qualitative case study investigated the changes in mental models of a group of White, rural and suburban, teacher candidates in a rural midwestern college and their increased capacity to understand race and culture after their short-term practicum experience in Guatemala City. The study used individual written reflections, whole-group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Capacity Building, Schemata (Cognition), Overseas Employment
Global Perspective Development as Sustained Micromovements over Time: Examining an International Student-Teaching Experience Five Years Later
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Mathews, Sarah A. – Action in Teacher Education, 2017
Colleges and universities incorporate international, student-teaching programs as a way to help prepare globally minded prospective teachers. This article adds to this conversation, offering insight from a multicase study analysis of three educators conducted 5 years after their experience student teaching in Kenya, East Africa. The researcher…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience
Does Student Teaching Abroad Affect Teacher Competencies? Perspectives from Iowa School Administrators
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Gilson, Timothy W.; Martin, Leigh C. – Action in Teacher Education, 2009
Based on a conceptual framework explaining the characteristics and learned traits gained from student teaching abroad, this study sought to identify common perceptions from hiring school administrators in the state of Iowa. A common question asked by teacher candidates is "Does my experience abroad help me acquire a teaching position?"…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Teaching Experience, Foreign Countries, Principals
Evaluation of an Intercultural Professional Experience Visit by Australian Teaching Students to Papua New Guinea.
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Maurer, John; Halloway, Warren – Action in Teacher Education, 1995
The University of New England (Australia) conducts annual professional experience visits to remote rural areas in Papua New Guinea for trainee teachers and staff. This article examines changes in student teachers' perceptions after experiencing a culture and environment so different from their own. Surveys have indicated that students…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Comparative Education, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness
Toward Global Horizons: Student Stories from an International Teacher Education Project.
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Friesen, David; And Others – Action in Teacher Education, 1995
Describes an international teacher education project, the Regina-Yaounde Inter-University Project, as one approach to the development of global consciousness in student teachers. The stories of two of the student participants (from Cameroon and Canada) in the student exchange component illustrate the impact of the experience on their professional…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Developing Nations
Preparing Teachers for the Education of New Immigrant Students from Africa.
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Alidou, Hassana – Action in Teacher Education, 2000
Analyzes emotional, linguistic, and cultural issues facing new African immigrants attending American schools, providing strategies for preparing teachers to welcome these students into their classrooms and develop effective intercultural communications with both the students and their parents (e.g., learn how to correctly pronounce their names,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences