Intercultural Teacher Education: Challenges and Ethical Dilemmas on an International Practicum

Autor/inn/en	Chan, Jenny; Parr, Graham
Institution	Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
Titel	Intercultural Teacher Education: Challenges and Ethical Dilemmas on an International Practicum
Quelle	(2012), (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISSN	1324-9320
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teacher Education; Ethics; Developing Nations; Foreign Countries; Practicums; Nongovernmental Organizations; International Education; Partnerships in Education; Student Attitudes; Teaching Experience; Cultural Awareness; Program Descriptions; Australia; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Ethik; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Ausland; Practicum; Praktikum; Praktika; Internationale Erziehung; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Schülerverhalten; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Australien; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Interest is growing in the potential of international intercultural teaching practicums to connect students to international dimensions of education and to productively disturb the conceptions of teaching, diversity and culture that some pre-service teachers bring with them into their teaching. This paper reports on an international teaching practicum, wherein a cohort of pre-service students from Australia undertakes a three week practicum in schools and community-based settings in Johannesburg, South Africa. The practicum is part of an ongoing international project, which is now in its fourth year. It is supported by partnerships between universities in Australia and South Africa, and ongoing relationships with schools and NGOs in the host country. Using narrative-based inquiry methods, the authors inquire into the experiences of three cohorts of pre-service teachers who undertook the practicum from 2009-2011. They find that the pre-service teachers' experiences of this practicum in a developing country are usually positive, notwithstanding, or perhaps even because of, the ways in which the students have to grapple in deeply collegial ways with ethical dilemmas and other challenges. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10