Narratives of learning through international professional experience

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 t...

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Other Authors: Fitzgerald, Angela,, Parr, Graham,, Williams, Judy,, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Singapore : Springer, 2017.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 184 pages) : 8 illustrations, 2 illustrations in color.
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Table of 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.