Understanding the Lives of Transnational Teachers in Canadian Schools Overseas

• In Event: Roundtable Session 2
  In Roundtable Session: Lives of Teachers: Teacher Identity

Abstract

Educators who teach overseas face a number of barriers to job adjustment in light of different cultural, political, and social settings. The purpose of this research project is to further understand and remove these barriers. Situated as a case study of Canadian provincially affiliated schools overseas, there are eight schools from four provinces that participated in this study. Study participants consist of fifty-seven transnational teachers and eight school administrators. Information shared suggests that there was an inadequate sense of educator preparedness to work overseas and that teachers did not view their foreign identity-backgrounds as being a controversial factor in the classroom. This study gives an indication of where disconnects may exist between administrators and their foreign teaching staff.

Authors

• Robert Mizzi, University of Manitoba

• Alysha June Sloane, Manitoba School Improvement Program

• Sunny Lynn Munn, The Ohio State University