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Critical and Narrative Perspectives on Intercultural Teaching

Sat, April 9, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Room 144 A

Session Type: Symposium

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This session will enhance the current dialogue on intercultural teaching and on intercultural competence with first–hand narrative accounts of life, teaching, and research in intercultural professional settings in order to bring to light intricate understandings of this form of educator professional development. In addition, this session will critically unpack aspects of intercultural teacher development and programs supporting such endeavors as they explicitly enhance educators’ capacities for personal, passionate, and participatory teaching and inquiry. The set of presentations included in this symposium make use of narrative and/or critical lenses to analyze and discuss the experiences, research, development of, and responses to intercultural teaching interactions with respect to ameliorating the education of diverse youth in schools.

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