The Transformative Power of Travel? Four Social Studies Teachers Reflect on Their International Professional Development

Autor/in	Patterson, Timothy
Titel	The Transformative Power of Travel? Four Social Studies Teachers Reflect on Their International Professional Development
Quelle	In: Theory and Research in Social Education, 43 (2015) 3, S.345-371 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0093-3104
DOI	10.1080/00933104.2015.1064504
Schlagwörter	Travel; Transformative Learning; Teacher Attitudes; Social Studies; Foreign Countries; Study Abroad; Faculty Development; Qualitative Research; Learning Experience; Course Content; Curriculum; Asian History; Middle School Teachers; Secondary School Teachers; Personal Narratives; Semi Structured Interviews; Program Descriptions; Participant Observation; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Travelling; Reisen; Reise; Pädagogische Transformation; Lehrerverhalten; Gemeinschaftskunde; Ausland; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Qualitative Forschung; Lernerfahrung; Kursprogramm; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Middle school; Middle schools; Teacher; Teachers; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Erlebniserzählung; Teilnehmende Beobachtung
Abstract	Common sense thinking on international professional development suggests that the rewards for teachers are automatic. One of the most frequently advertised gains teachers are expected to see from participation includes the likelihood that they will have a transformative experience, whereby aspects of their personal or professional attributes are fundamentally modified in some productive way. This qualitative inquiry is an examination of the stories four teachers told after participating in one international professional development program. Employing interviews and observations while drawing on postcolonial theory, it investigates if and to what degree travel to and study in China constituted a transformative experience. Specifically, this study is concerned with the influence of 1 study tour on the perceptual understandings of 4 in-service social studies teachers, and if their travel alters the way they interpret often underrepresented and misrepresented content of their curricula. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01