32.043 - Opportunities for Learning From Participation in International Professional Experience

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this symposium, teacher educators from four different institutions present findings from their research into the professional learning gained from participating in an international professional experience program. As the AERA theme suggests, education has the potential to provide students life-enhancing opportunities that they might have otherwise been denied. In this symposium, we present findings from research into the learning and engagement potential for teacher educators and student teachers when teaching in diverse international contexts. These experiences provide opportunities for learning and engagement that would be difficult to access in their home contexts, and that contribute to their professional practice of providing educational opportunities for students in a range of diverse contexts.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 6: Field Experiences: Student Teaching, Supervision, School/Community Collaborations, and Innovative Approaches and Models

Chair

• Judy Joy Williams, Monash University

Papers

• Confronting and Expanding: Impact of International Professional Experience on Student Teachers - David Mittelberg, Oranim Academic College of Education

• Intercultural Understanding and Global Threat - Julie Faulkner, Monash University; Anne Keary, Monash University

• The Relational Work of Leading an International Professional Experience - Judy Joy Williams, Monash University

Discussants

• Susan E. Elliott-Johns, Nipissing University

• Monica Taylor, Montclair State University