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Jin, Aijing; Parr, Graham; Cooley, Dean – Australian Educational Researcher, 2020
In the context of increasing interest in international teaching practicums, this study investigated the perceptions of Australian pre-service teachers, Chinese mentor teachers and Chinese school students vis-à-vis an international teaching practicum in Anshan, China. Utilising a case study design and thematic analysis methods, the authors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Practicums
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Jin, Aijing; Parr, Graham; Hui, Leng – Educational Research, 2020
Background: Small cohorts of pre-service teachers (PSTs) have been successfully undertaking teaching practicums in a range of international settings for more than 40 years, as part of their initial teacher education studies. Most research into these international teaching practicums (ITPs) has concentrated on the benefits for western PSTs and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Practicums, Educational Benefits
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Parr, Graham; Faulkner, Julie; Rowe, Craig – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
Many teacher education institutions across the world are now initiating and supporting international teaching practicums to better prepare their teaching graduates to teach for diversity. Recently, some of these practicums have embedded service-learning structures and discourses to further encourage pre-service teachers (PSTs) to think beyond…
Descriptors: Practicums, International Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs
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Parr, Graham – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
Across the world, the work of teacher educators in universities is subject to contradictory discourses of, on the one hand, globalisation and standardisation and, on the other, innovation in both teaching and research. This article is a critical account of a particular experience of an Australian teacher educator leading an international teaching…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Practicums, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators
Chan, Jenny; Parr, Graham – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
Interest is growing in the potential of international intercultural teaching practicums to connect students to international dimensions of education and to productively disturb the conceptions of teaching, diversity and culture that some pre-service teachers bring with them into their teaching. This paper reports on an international teaching…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Ethics, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
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Parr, Graham; Chan, Jennifer – Teaching Education, 2015
Since the 1970s, international fieldwork has provided opportunities for small numbers of pre-service teachers to teach and learn in a culture different from their own. Research into this fieldwork suggests that pre-service teachers are positive about their experiences, although questions remain about the ethics underpinning some of these programs.…
Descriptors: Practicums, International Educational Exchange, Student Exchange Programs, Field Experience Programs