The Teacher Educator Toolbox: Cross-Cultural Learning in Global Partnerships

• In Event: 31.070 - Global Impacts on Higher Education and Teacher Preparation

Abstract

Professional development offered to teacher educators is meant to enhance pedagogy and improve practice. Inspired by a transnational partnership in Southeast Asia, this study aimed to discover how teacher education faculty perceived faculty development offered to them by university partnership colleagues from the West. Survey findings indicate that certain faculty development strategies improved teaching and assessment practices and enhanced self-reflection. However, evidence also showed some negative faculty perceptions in relation to the Western presenters’ methodologies, and qualitative responses indicated a lack of relevancy to the Southeastern Asia context. Very little has been written on the impact of teacher educator professional development offered by transnational academic partnerships.

Author

• Janine F. Allen, Corban University