The impact of a short-term international experience for preservice teachers

Willard-Holt, Colleen

doi:10.1016/s0742-051x(01)00009-9

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“…In the context of university education, research on study abroad has found a number of positive outcomes that refl ect the previous list of competencies. For example, compared with students who have not studied abroad, students who study abroad have greater knowledge and understanding of other cultures (Bates, 1997;Hutchins, 1996;Williams, 2005), are better able to identify with people from other cultures (Drews & Meyer, 1996), are more fl exible and adaptable (Black & Duhon, 2006;Willard-Holt, 2001), are better able to recognize and appreciate cultural diff erences (Bates, 1997;Hutchins, 1996), are more emotionally resilient and independent (Black & Duhon, 2006), and are more interested in learning about other cultures (Carson & Widaman, 1988;Forgues, 2005;Hadis, 2005;Hutchins, 1996).…”

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Global leadership development plans: Engaging students as agents in their own development

Niehaus

O'Rourke

Ostick

2012

J of Leadership Studies

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Predominance of right‐handedness has historically been considered as a hallmark of human evolution. Whether nonhuman primates exhibit population‐level manual bias remains a controversial topic. Here, we investigated the hypothesis that bimanual coordinated activities may be a key‐behavior in our ancestors for the emergence and evolution of human population‐level right‐handedness. To this end, we collected data on hand preferences in 35 captive gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) during simple unimanual reaching and for bimanual coordinated feeding. Unimanual reaching consisted of grasping food on the ground, while bimanual feeding consisted of using one hand for holding a food and processing the food item by the opposite hand. No population‐level manual bias was found for unimanual actions but, in contrast, gorillas exhibited a significant population‐level right‐handedness for the bimanual actions. Moreover, the degree of right‐handedness for bimanual feeding exceeds any other known reports of hand use in primates, suggesting that lateralization for bimanual feeding is robust in captive gorillas. The collective evidence is discussed in the context of potential continuity of handedness between human and nonhuman primates. Am J Phys Anthropol 2010. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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Global leadership development plans: Engaging students as agents in their own development

Niehaus

O'Rourke

Ostick

2012

J of Leadership Studies

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“…Therefore, creating more opportunities for international or study abroad for preservice teachers can be an ideal way to help them gain a global perspective (Haakenson, 1999). International teaching experiences are said to be powerful in changing beginning teachers' thinking about themselves, curriculum design, and teaching strategies; enhance skills and abilities of effective teachers; force examination of personal beliefs, habits and values; increase their motivation to teach about global issues and encourage commitment to open-mindedness (Willard-Holt, 2001;Holden & Hicks, 2007). The impact of International experience is well captured in the illustration of the story of Diane, a University of Kentucky graduate who did her teaching in a small village school in England.…”

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“…Infusion experiments allow teachers to experiment with global perspectives in their own teaching through lesson plans, teaching and assessment and later reflect on their own teaching (Merryfield, 1993). The idea of infusion experiments is in line with the methods used in a study conducted by Willard-Holt (2001) where she examined the impact of cross-cultural teaching experience. The study involved 27 pre-service teachers most of whom were White at Penn State-Capital College.…”

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“…The results indicated that 80% of pre-service teachers integrated content from their trip, 60% taught and learned more about countries of the world and 60% reported change towards teaching with sensitivity and empathy (Willard-Holt, 2001). This project is in tandem with Merryfield (1993) idea of infusion experiments in that pre-service teachers were to use their international experience in their lesson planning, content and real teaching, and reflect on its impact on their teaching.…”

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Teaching World Mindedness in Social Studies Classrooms in Primary Schools in Botswana: Reality or Illusion?

Mhlauli

2013

IRE

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The need to teach global perspectives in schools has heightened with the proliferation of information sharing technologies and the growing interconnectedness of world systems, hence, the suggestion that if social studies is to do better in the preparation of global citizens for the future it has to pay attention to global perspectives. The purpose of this study was to interrogate the social studies teachers' views and experiences in teaching about the world in upper classes in primary schools in Botswana. For its framework, this study uses Hanvey' (1976) five dimensions of global education popularly known as "An attainable global perspective". This study was anchored within the naturalistic inquiry paradigm and used qualitative methods to collect data. Data were analyzed inductively through grounded theory techniques. The findings of this study indicated that social studies teachers teach about the world from a "Motswana" worldview. The conclusion drawn from these findings is that these teachers believe that teaching about Botswana is more of a priority than teaching about the world and their discussion on world issues is based on how those issues affect them as a country and a people. Therefore, the development of world mindedness in social studies classrooms remains an illusion rather than a reality. The study recommends that teacher education both pre-service and in-service revisit their curriculum in an effort to incorporate mega trends in social studies and global education and its pedagogies.

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“…These changes were demonstrated 4 weeks after the completion of the international study. Willard-Holt (2001) showed that a study tour of only 6 days demonstrated improvements in student empathy, tolerance, flexibility, patience and self-confidence a year afterwards. In contrast Houser (2008) and Nieto (2006) argue that even short cultural plunges (2 hour plunges), appropriately scaffolded and with support for reflection, can be very effective in helping students become more aware of their own values and biases and to improve their sensitivity.…”

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Short-term International Experience (STIE) and Students’ Understanding of Quality Early Childhood Service Provision

Sims¹,

Nishida²

2017

JEL

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Exposing pre-service teachers to international professional experiences through a short-term visiting programme serves to challenge their understandings of good quality practice through disturbing assumptions and expectations previously formed through experiences in their own country/culture. Much of the research in international study focuses on pre-service teachers preparing to teach in primary, secondary or language classes. In this study we present the perceptions of pre-service early childhood students who underwent a short-term international experience. In particular we explore the ways in which their experiences impacted on their understandings of quality early childhood service provision. In the increasingly neoliberal Australian early childhood sector externally imposed standards define quality and this is enacted in relatively homogenous ways in practice, opportunities to observe practice arising from different understandings serves to challenge thinking, potentially leading to different world views (Piaget's accommodation).

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The impact of a short-term international experience for preservice teachers

Cited by 186 publications

References 5 publications

Global leadership development plans: Engaging students as agents in their own development

Global leadership development plans: Engaging students as agents in their own development

Teaching World Mindedness in Social Studies Classrooms in Primary Schools in Botswana: Reality or Illusion?

Short-term International Experience (STIE) and Students’ Understanding of Quality Early Childhood Service Provision

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