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Zhu, Gang; Chen, Boyin; Li, Changjie; Li, Danyang – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2020
This paper examines a cohort of Chinese preservice teachers' (PSTs') (n = 13) international teaching practicums (ITPs) experiences in Canada from the perspectives of complexity theory and boundary-crossing. Through semi-structured interviews and reflective journals, we positioned PSTs' ITPs within multiple layers, including biographies, the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Practicums, Learning Processes, Teacher Exchange Programs
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Lazzari, Arianna; Picchio, Mariacristina; Musatti, Tullia – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2013
There is a broad consensus in international debates that the quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services is inextricably linked to the professionalisation of its workforce. In particular, the importance of providing ECEC practitioners with continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities has been increasingly recognised in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Educational Quality, Professional Continuing Education
Carter, Margie – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2010
Last February, in search of expanded thinking, the author led a group of 20 early childhood professionals on a study tour to Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). The group included two Canadians and two Aussies, with everyone else from the United States. While they knew they had much to learn from the overall system of early childhood education in NZ, the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Field Trips