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Huang, Xingfeng; Huang, Rongjin; Bosch, Marianna – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2021
Teacher collaborative learning is key in teacher professional development. Yet, how teachers learn in cross-cultural professional development settings remains largely unexplored. This paper examines the case of a Chinese mathematics teacher who learned through addressing various challenges when teaching in an English school in a China-UK exchange…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, International Cooperation
Gasteiger, Hedwig; Brunner, Esther; Chen, Ching-Shu – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
Results of international comparison studies show substantially better mathematics performance of the investigated Asian than European students from the early years on. A Taiwanese-German Research Program (TaiGer) engages in exploring differences and similarities in the educational system, in teachers' knowledge and beliefs and in teaching or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Mathematics Instruction, Early Childhood Education
Moorhouse, Benjamin Luke; Harfitt, Gary James – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
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,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods, Teacher Education Programs
Shim, Soo Won – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2021
Multicultural competence has gained attention in education as the diversity of students has increased. Thus, teachers ought to be expected to develop ways of understanding students' cultural differences and to improve their ability to communicate with and be culturally empathic with students from different backgrounds. Using an autoethnographic…
Descriptors: Science Education, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, Student Diversity
Khoza, Simon Bheki. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Online teaching results in knowledge-building. Knowledge-building is the teaching and learning process that helps academics and students to generate specific personal values used to understand their personal identities. Academics have been forced by COVID-19 lockdowns to go online in teaching their students. The purpose of this study is to explore…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Knowledge Level, Higher Education
Jiang, Shuaipu – Commission for International Adult Education, 2022
Classroom instruction in China and in the United States have sharp differences. Typically, constructivist learning theory shapes American classroom instruction whereas Confucian educational culture shapes Chinese classroom instruction. Furthermore, typically, Chinese classrooms adopt a direct instructional approach whereas American classrooms…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Constructivism (Learning), Confucianism, Asian Culture
Bae, Han Suk; Yin, Li; Joshi, R. Malatesha – Annals of Dyslexia, 2019
The purpose of the present study is to explore cross-cultural differences among teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) on the basic language constructs and the impacts on their perceived teaching ability in English-reading instruction. Chinese EFL (n = 73) and Korean EFL (n = 39) teachers were administered the Reading Teacher Knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Cultural Differences
Smits, Tom F. H.; Janssenswillen, Paul – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2020
Socio-political and demographic developments in Western Europe make diversity and multiculturalism a relevant line of research and emerging topic in education sciences. This paper discusses a case study that investigates Belgian pre-service teachers' attitudes towards ethnic diversity in their classrooms, how their teaching caters to student…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Multicultural Education, Adult Education, Immigrants
Bacala, Frederick Navarro – Online Submission, 2019
Cultural interference acknowledgement can be difficult to acknowledge. Student acknowledgment of cultural interference has been researched extensively, but teacher acknowledgement has not. The purpose of this multicase study is to examine teacher acknowledgement of cultural interference, to assess if they are aware of it, and to assist educators…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Interference (Learning), Case Studies, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Othman, Azam; Ruslan, Norbaiduri – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to present the qualitative findings on students' and teachers' experiences in communicating and interacting with students and teachers from different ethnic backgrounds in the Malaysian vision schools initiative. Design/methodology/approach: Face-to-face interviews were conducted involving 15 informants comprising of three…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Jin, Lixian; Cortazzi, Martin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Internationalising higher education (HE) shows tensions between recruiting international students as a means of securing income and meeting their particular educational needs towards practices of caring for their social, psychological, intercultural and educational well-being. This paper briefly outlines the extent of current HE…
Descriptors: Universities, International Education, Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication
Hutchison, Charles B.; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Creech, Tracy; Robertson, Colleen; Hguyen, Nhu – International Research and Review, 2018
The international mobility of knowledge workers, as reflected in the vast numbers of international (or immigrant) scholars, help provide the intellectual infrastructure of several higher institutions of learning and research across the world. Although the large numbers involved reflect an apparent success of this phenomenon, there are hidden…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, College Faculty, Faculty Mobility, Instructional Effectiveness
Gube, Maren; Shore, Bruce M. – Online Submission, 2018
From the 1990s until 2017 the High Ability and Inquiry Research Group (HAIR) at McGill University in Montreal, received C$1.3M in research funds from Canadian, Quebec, and US agencies to support its research and graduate training in education and educational psychology. Their research encompassed two principal areas, Inquiry in Education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Educational Objectives, Academic Ability
Everington, Judith – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2012
In the context of international debates about teachers' knowledge, this essay reports a study of how and why a cohort of English trainee teachers of Religious Education used their personal life knowledge in their teaching. Four possible reasons for their commitment to this practice are examined. A belief in the value of openness, a desire to…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Cultural Differences, Beginning Teachers, Religious Education
Laschke, Christin – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2013
How individual characteristics affect the acquisition of knowledge in teacher education has been widely unexplored thus far. The "Teacher Education and Development Study--Learning to Teach Mathematics (TEDS-M)" provides a database for examining this research question across countries. Based on the Taiwanese and German sample of TEDS-M,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Individual Characteristics