Teaching Overseas

Teaching Overseas
Author: Kent M. Blakeney
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: International schools
ISBN: 9781537533063

The ideal book for someone considering making the leap overseas or has not been overseas very long. The book includes everything you need to know from learning about the structure of an overseas school, learning how to find the right job, moving, and adjusting to life overseas.

Teaching Abroad

Teaching Abroad
Author: Gordon E. Slethaug
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2007-06-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789622098541

Focuses on North Americans who go to China and Europe, but also discusses attitudes and issues relevant to all of the international community; notes the recent flourishing of international education and developments in educational structures and practice, and takes up the historical development of, and recent changes in, university education in China.

Innocents Abroad

Innocents Abroad
Author: Jonathan Zimmerman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008-12-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0674268474

Protestant missionaries in Latin America. Colonial "civilizers" in the Pacific. Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa. Since the 1890s, thousands of American teachers--mostly young, white, middle-class, and inexperienced--have fanned out across the globe. Innocents Abroad tells the story of what they intended to teach and what lessons they learned. Drawing on extensive archives of the teachers' letters and diaries, as well as more recent accounts, Jonathan Zimmerman argues that until the early twentieth century, the teachers assumed their own superiority; they sought to bring civilization, Protestantism, and soap to their host countries. But by the mid-twentieth century, as teachers borrowed the concept of "culture" from influential anthropologists, they became far more self-questioning about their ethical and social assumptions, their educational theories, and the complexity of their role in a foreign society. Filled with anecdotes and dilemmas--often funny, always vivid--Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting attitudes about their country and themselves, in a world that was more unexpected and unsettling than they could have imagined.

Teaching Abroad During Initial Teacher Education

Teaching Abroad During Initial Teacher Education
Author: Benjamin Luke Moorhouse
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2022-07-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3031059611

This book explores teaching abroad during initial teacher education, an increasingly common practice in the initial preparation of teachers. Teaching abroad involves pre-service teachers spending a defined period teaching in a foreign country or in an alternative, and preferably a distinctly different, education system from the one in which they are receiving their initial teacher education. The book, drawing on relevant literature and the author’s first-hand experience of developing and leading a teaching-abroad project, is a concise but comprehensive introduction to the field. Important aspects of the initiative, such as rationale, project designs, benefits, criticisms and limitations, community considerations and future possibilities are included. The book is an important starting point for teacher educators interested in developing teaching abroad projects, as well as academics and scholars interested in the principles, practices, and debates around teaching abroad in initial teacher education.

Advancing Teacher Education and Curriculum Development through Study Abroad Programs

Advancing Teacher Education and Curriculum Development through Study Abroad Programs
Author: Rhodes, Joan A.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2015-11-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1466696737

The number of English language students in American schools has dramatically increased in recent years, creating a greater awareness of cross-cultural issues and considerations in education. Globalization as well as an increase in international exchange student programs has proven that pre-service teachers can benefit from traveling abroad and working with students from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Advancing Teacher Education and Curriculum Development through Study Abroad Programs is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the value of travel abroad programs for pre-service educators, addressing the benefits and opportunities available when teachers gain cultural awareness and a better global understanding. Highlighting theoretical foundations, curriculum innovations, and specific challenges to overcome in the implementation of such programs, this book is an essential reference source for school administrators, university professors, curriculum developers, and researchers in higher education.

Teaching English Overseas: An Introduction

Teaching English Overseas: An Introduction
Author: Sandra McKay
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1992-03-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780194328142

Looks at the way in which social, political, economic, and cultural factors can influence the language classroom. This book also contains practical suggestions on how to cope with the professional problems and misunderstandings which can occur in overseas contexts. It is useful for native-speaker teachers of English preparing to work overseas.