Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes towards Overseas Professional Experience: Implications for Professional Practice

Autor/inn/en	Chinnappan, Mohan; McKenzie, Barbra; Fitzsimmons, Phil
Titel	Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes towards Overseas Professional Experience: Implications for Professional Practice
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 38 (2013) 12, Artikel 3 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0313-5373
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; Preservice Teacher Education; Student Teacher Attitudes; Work Attitudes; Skill Analysis; Educational Needs; Pretests Posttests; Professional Development; Foreign Countries; Learning Experience; Global Education; Cross Cultural Training; International Educational Exchange; Teacher Exchange Programs; Teaching Experience; Student Teaching; Mixed Methods Research; Semi Structured Interviews; Questionnaires; Australia; Fiji + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Ausland; Lernerfahrung; Globales Lernen; Interkulturelle Orientierung; Internationaler Austausch; Teaching practice; Unterrichtspraxis; Fragebogen; Australien; Fidschi
Abstract	Reforms in Australia about the education of future teachers has placed a high degree of emphasis on the development of knowledge and skills that are necessary for practitioners who will ply their trade in culturally rich and diverse classrooms (Ramsey, 2000). There is now a broad consensus from key stakeholders (Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, 2012) that pre-service teachers need to be provided with a range of opportunities that are grounded in classroom practices including exposure to teaching students overseas. The aim of the study that is reported here is to better understand the skills and knowledge that pre-service teachers need in order to function in and gain from their overseas professional experiences (OSPEX). In this study, we compared a cohort of pre-service teachers' perceptions of OSPEX before and after their completed their professional experiences in Fiji. Results indicate that pre-service teachers need to be better prepared locally before attempting an OSPEX visit. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10