Tensions, Transformations and Travel: Comparative Narratives of 'Becoming' a Cosmopolitan Educator through an Overseas Study Tour in Singapore

Autor/inn/en	Soong, Hannah; Caldwell, David
Titel	Tensions, Transformations and Travel: Comparative Narratives of 'Becoming' a Cosmopolitan Educator through an Overseas Study Tour in Singapore
Quelle	In: Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 13 (2021) 2, S.132-144 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Soong, Hannah) ORCID (Caldwell, David)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2151-0393
Schlagwörter	Study Abroad; Travel; Cultural Awareness; Intercultural Programs; Global Approach; Teacher Educators; Preservice Teachers; Faculty Development; Self Concept; Professional Identity; English (Second Language); Transformative Learning; Foreign Countries; World Views; Singapore; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Travelling; Reisen; Reise; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Globales Denken; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Selbstkonzept; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Pädagogische Transformation; Ausland; World view; Weltanschauung; Singapur; Australien
Abstract	This paper discusses the dynamic and complex dimensions of 'becoming' a cosmopolitan teacher educator through an overseas study tour. It employs autobiography as a research method to interpret the experiences of an overseas study tour, and how it has engaged the teacher educators in self-reflexivity of their negotiation of multiple identities: academic, personal and cultural. Our self-narratives reveal how becoming cosmopolitan educators is not only intimately linked to the process of re-construction of oneself as a reflexive person. The process can also be conflicting and unsettling because of how we were positioned by our pre-service teachers. It concludes by highlighting the conditions in which our multiple identities come into existence and how they shape our ways of becoming, and the need for teacher educators to engage in a continual process of professional development as cosmopolitan teacher educators. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01