The 4Cs of Global Education for Teacher Education Students: Culture, Confidence, Context, and Crowded Curriculum

Title: The 4Cs of Global Education for Teacher Education Students: Culture, Confidence, Context, and Crowded Curriculum
Creator: Ferguson-Patrick, Kate; Reynolds, Ruth; MacQueen, Suzanne
Relation: The Globalisation of Higher Education: Developing Internationalised Education Research and Practice p. 427-442
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74579-4_26
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2018
Description: Global citizenship is an important attribute in our interconnected world, with children’s first formal introduction to global perspectives mostly occurring through schooling. Accordingly, teacher general knowledge and curricula skills around global perspectives are pivotal. We present findings from a study of preservice teachers’ global education (GE) observations and experiences during professional experiences in schools. We used qualitative data from surveys administered after they had been in schools teaching over four weeks to determine what GE teaching they had observed and conducted during their placements and what barriers to the teaching of GE they perceived. Results show that much work is needed to ensure an adequate GE focus in schools.
Subject: global education; professional experience; teacher education; preservice teacher education; pedagogy; curriculum
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1441473
Identifier: uon:41436
Identifier: ISBN:9783319745794
Language: eng