Narratives of Learning Through International Professional Experience

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fitzgerald, Ange (Editor), Parr, Graham (Editor), Williams, Judy (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Teaching.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Learning & Instruction.

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...

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.