Pre-service and in-service teachers' professional learning through the pedagogical exchange of ideas during a teaching abroad experience

Pre-service and in-service teachers' professional learning through the pedagogical exchange of ideas during a teaching abroad experience

• Moorhouse, Benjamin Luke The University of Hong Kong
• Harfitt, Gary James The University of Hong Kong

Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, (0), - , 2019

Routledge

2019

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers

Teaching Abroad Overseas Student Teaching International Field Experience Initial Teacher Education Programme Qualities of Teaching Twenty-First Century Teaching

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This study explores the professional learning of ten pre-service teachers from Hong Kong and ten host teachers in a school in China who participated in a teaching abroad project. The participants' professional learning during the project is conceptualised within five knowledge domains of quality teaching for the twenty-first century: personal, contextual, pedagogical, sociological and social. The findings suggest that by immersing pre-service teachers in an unfamiliar teaching environment, they can learn professional knowledge for teaching in an increasingly complex world. This complements the knowledge they are acquiring in their domestic courses and practicums. Furthermore, through the pedagogical exchange of ideas, the host teachers are also found to benefit. We recommend that teaching abroad opportunities be included in initial teacher education (ITE) programmes and that host teachers' professional learning are considered in their development.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 1359866X

• 10.1080/1359866X.2019.1694634

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/b71c1c0e

2020-08-26