Full Description
This book presents a collection of research-based narratives exploring the learning of pre-service teachers and teacher educators in a range of international professional experience (IPE) settings. The narratives, based on over 20 years of IPE managed by an Australian faculty of education, capture the lessons learnt from the IPE program from a variety of perspectives, including academic staff, pre-service teachers and in-country partners. Four key themes emerge from the narratives: identity, learning through discomfort, collaboration and relationships. At a time when critics of teacher education are arguing for more predictable, standardised programs and practices, this book advocates for richly diverse, innovative programs that better prepare the next generation of educators for teaching in a multicultural, uncertain future.
Contents
Chapter 1 Monash University International Professional Experience Program.- Chapter 2 Tourist, tour guide, traveller, travel agent? Reflections on leading and learning international professional experience.- Chapter 3 Pre-service teachers' international teaching placement: Outcome for the accompanying academic.- Chapter 4 Self-interest and ethical praxis agendas in an international teaching practicum: Promoting synergies through transcultural dialogue across difference.- Chapter 5 Transformation of pre-service teacher sense of self through engagement and community connections in IPE.- Chapter 6 Mentoring-learning in a cross-language and cross-cultural framework: Australian pre-service teachers and Israeli mentor-teachers.- Chapter 7 Building intercultural competence and professional confidence through collaboration in an Italian IPE.- Chapter 8 Outside in: Learning from an international professional experience program.- Chapter 9 The influence of an international context on a teacher educator's knowledge, practice and identity.- Chapter 10 Acknowledging and learning from discomfort: The learners' perspective.- Chapter 11 Resilience, Global Threat and International Professional Experience.- Chapter 12 Learning from leading: A teacher educator's perspective of learning through leading an international professional experience.
