scholarly journals Informing Teacher Education Through Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning: Dialogic Inquiry into Japanese and Canadian School Experiences

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsuyo Sakamoto ◽  
Elaine Chan
Author(s):  
Cher Hill ◽  
Paula Rosehart ◽  
Sue Montabello ◽  
Margaret MacDonald ◽  
Don Blazevich ◽  
...  

This paper explores the potentiality inherent within a community-campus partnership in the area of inservice teacher education, and the inter-institutional space that has afforded creative and collaborative practices. Through this partnership, we endeavour to find innovative ways to better serve our students and create opportunities for smooth interactions and flow across school and university communities. Unlike other research that explores tensions and/or common ground within community-university partnerships, we seek to understand the potential that is created in the metaphorical space in-between institutions. Using dialogic inquiry, the diverse members of our teaching team, including members of the university community and the K-12 school system, as well as graduates of the program, reflected on the unique material, discursive and relational dimensions of our inter-institutional space. We came to see our graduate program as a hybrid place of connections, rhythms, and intersections in which usual institutional practices are ruptured. Together we identified powerful interrelated structural dimensions of our inter-institutionality, which we referred to as the gathering space, the inquiry space, the transformative space and the empowering space. These themes and the flow that has been created across and between institutions will be discussed in the following paper. 


Author(s):  
Gonca Telli Yamamoto ◽  
Michael D. Featherstone ◽  
Faruk Karaman ◽  
Patricia C. Borstorff

The chapter details the experiences both students and instructors encountered in creating and participating in a cross-cultural virtual team conducted predominantly in a virtual environment. We describe problems encountered and often (though not always) overcome. Students learned both the rewards and the frustrations such teams experience as they learned to participate in and contribute to the collective intelligence of the team.


Author(s):  
Candace Schlein ◽  
Elaine Chan ◽  
JoAnn Phillion

There is a need to move from a policy curricular perspective to a pragmatic orientation of the curriculum so that issues of teaching and learning may sharpen into focus in relation to learning interactions between teachers and students. An experiential perspective on the curriculum through narrative inquiry would contribute significantly to the existing literature. Further work highlighting students’ and teachers’ lives serves to underscore natural overlaps between cross-cultural and multicultural vantages on research in education. Narrative inquiry work in the areas of multicultural curriculum and cross-cultural curriculum are seminal for supporting a vision emphasizing experience. Data drawn from experiential research that combines multicultural curriculum and cross-cultural curriculum may inform policy and practice from a contextualized vantage. Narrative inquiries that adopt multicultural and cross-cultural lenses represent tremendous potential for extending educator professional development and enhancing understanding of students’ school experiences.


Author(s):  
Winifred Oluchukwu Eboh

Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning for Home and International Students - Internationalisation of Pedagogy and Curriculum in Higher Education


2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 811-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Plummer ◽  
Tom Omwenga Nyang'au

English Few have been able to benefit from international exchanges due to the distance, cost and complications of cross-cultural teaching and learning. This article discusses how university and non-profit social work professionals can create, sustain and benefit from internet communication. A case example provides concrete examples of possibilities inherent in this international exchange. French Seuls quelques individus ont pu bénéficier d’échanges internationaux: à cause de la distance, du coût et des complications de l’enseignement et de l’apprentissage interculturels. Cet article traite de la façon dont l’université et les professionnels du travail social à but non lucratif peuvent créer, maintenir et bénéficier de la communication internet. Une étude de cas apporte des exemples concrets de possibilités inhérentes à cet échange international. Spanish Pocos han podido beneficiarse de intercambios internacionales debido a la distancia, el costo y las complicaciones del aprendizaje y la enseñanza intercultural. Este artículo discute como las universidades y los profesionales del trabajo social sin fines de lucro pueden crear, mantener y beneficiarse de la comunicación vía Internet. Un caso tipo provee ejemplos concretos de las posibilidades inherentes a este intercambio internacional.


Author(s):  
Shuang Liu

The progress of science and technology and the development of information technology have accelerated the speed of information dissemination and cultural transformation. In the context of multiculturalism, if we want to cultivate talents who can communicate across cultures, domestic English teaching needs further reforms. The unified implementation of English teaching in China has lasted for decades, and the research on teaching theory has gradually formed a stable framework. But from an overall point of view, instillation teaching under test-oriented education is not conducive to improving students' English practice level. In order to solve this problem, this article analyzes the cultural teaching content in college English teaching from a cross-cultural perspective, and emphasizes the importance of cultural infiltration in English teaching. At the same time, it analyzes the problems in teaching practice from multiple aspects of listening, speaking, reading, writing and translation, and puts forward suggestions for the construction of a cross-cultural communication ability training system. Experiments show that in the classes taught by ordinary English teachers, the average proportion of classroom culture teaching is only 14.995%; under the same conditions, the average proportion of classroom culture teaching in the classes taught by foreign teachers reaches 33.865%. Combined with the higher average scores of students in foreign teachers' classes, it can be known that cultural teaching can play a certain role in improving the level of comprehensive English teaching.


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