Teaching Abroad during Initial Teacher Education: The Effects as Perceived by Recently Qualified Teachers on Their Preparedness for Teaching

Autor/in	Moorhouse, Benjamin Luke
Titel	Teaching Abroad during Initial Teacher Education: The Effects as Perceived by Recently Qualified Teachers on Their Preparedness for Teaching
Quelle	In: Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 42 (2022) 4, S.760-771 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Moorhouse, Benjamin Luke)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0218-8791
DOI	10.1080/02188791.2020.1755222
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; Preservice Teacher Education; Study Abroad; Student Teaching; Educational Benefits; Foreign Countries; Beginning Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Hong Kong + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Teaching practice; Unterrichtspraxis; Bildungsertrag; Ausland; Junior teacher; Junglehrer; Lehrerverhalten; Hongkong
Abstract	Opportunities for pre-service teachers to participate during their initial teacher education (ITE) in teaching-abroad experiences, where they spend time teaching in a foreign country, have become increasingly popular. However, studies to date have collected data during or soon after the participant's return. Little is known about how recently qualified teachers (RQTs) who participated in such experiences during the ITE perceive their benefits. By collecting and analysing reflective writings of ten RQTs in Hong Kong, who participated in a teaching-abroad experience in China, this small-scale study sought to explore its impact on their perceived preparedness for their current roles in their home context. The findings suggest that the teachers feel that the experience added to their preparedness, in areas such as lesson preparation and planning, teaching confidence and flexibility and professional collaborations. The RQTs attributed these benefits to the unfamiliar teaching context and the additional teaching practice that the experience provided, as well as the opportunity to work closely with peers, course tutors and teachers in China. The study adds to the growing teaching-abroad literature by including the perspectives of RQTs, providing further justification for including such experiences in ITE programme curriculums. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01