Developing Preservice Teachers’ Cultural Competence Through Video-Cued Transcultural Conversations

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Abstract

A just education system where renewal, healing, and equity are centered for all children is situated within educator attitudes, beliefs, and interrogations of ontological and epistemological orientations. To build such a system, educators need to develop a deeper sense of intercultural competence. This study explores the types of intercultural noticings that occurred relative to cultural differences when Taiwanese and American pre-service teachers engaged in conversations on two documentary films highlighting four schools in four countries. Findings suggest that video-cued transcultural conversations created a space for preservice educators to re/conceptualize their beliefs. Evidence shows the growth of preservice educators’ cultural competence during these conversations and an expansion of their epistemologies to more effectively work with culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Authors

• Ya-Fang Cheng, Western Oregon University

• Kristen L. Pratt, Western Oregon University