Sustaining Noticing as Potential: US Teacher Candidates in Aotearoa New Zealand Schools

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Abstract

Teacher candidates’ international learning experiences are an opportunity not only to learn about new topics, but to engage with new ways of learning and ways of being in the world. Through analysis of data from a short-term study abroad programme for teacher candidates from the USA who travelled to Aotearoa New Zealand, this paper activates and develops noticing as a pedagogical and conceptual mechanism. In analysis of teacher candidates’ (TCs) assignments, researcher field notes, and iterative discussions among researchers from the originating and destination contexts, we recognised noticing as a means by which TCs in an unfamiliar context were present in their surroundings in a particular kind of way. Through this analysis, we recognised noticing holding temporal space for vast potential.

Authors

• Lori Czop Assaf, Texas State University

• Jessica Cira Rubin, University of Waikato