Sister Schools: An Experience in Culture Vision for Preservice Teachers and Elementary Children.

Autor/inn/en	Black, Sharon J.; Cutler, Beverly R.
Titel	Sister Schools: An Experience in Culture Vision for Preservice Teachers and Elementary Children.
Quelle	(1997), (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	College School Cooperation; Cross Cultural Training; Cultural Awareness; Cultural Exchange; Elementary Education; Elementary School Students; Higher Education; Multicultural Education; Preservice Teacher Education; Student Teachers; Student Teaching; Teacher Education Programs; Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interkulturelle Orientierung; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Kulturaustausch; Elementarunterricht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Teaching practice; Unterrichtspraxis; Mexiko
Abstract	The School of Education at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah developed a sister school program with teachers and children in Cuauhtemoc and Dublan (Mexico) to increase the culture vision of preservice teachers while simultaneously allowing elementary school children to develop culture awareness by participating in a cross-cultural learning experience. Student teachers from BYU were sent to the sister schools in Mexico, working under the direction of Mexican cooperating teachers as well as an onsite field instructor from the American sister school. At the same time, a child-to-child exchange developed joint fundraising projects for improvements to the Mexican schools and visits to Mexico by some of the American students. The preservice teachers in the program gained a substantive knowledge of how that culture affects the children, learning to look beyond color to see individuals within a unique cultural setting. American children participating in the program experienced similar though less extensive changes in their culture vision. Both student teachers and the sister schools students found that their talent and self-confidence developed through the new challenges and experiences, and that important lessons were learned through the service they contributed to the Mexican communities. (Contains 16 references.) (ND)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC