After a Summer: Pedagogical Developments in Cross Cultural Settings
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| Title | After a Summer: Pedagogical Developments in Cross Cultural Settings |
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| Abstract | This paper presents approaches and evaluations based on a summer of volunteer work in faculty development in China that led to years of cross cultural shared study, mentoring, and faculty training. Successful teaching or learning in a foreign culture emerged through attitudes and actions based on welcoming, accommodating, invigorating, valuing, and evaluating (WAIVE). Cross cultural shared learning between presenter and local faculty, during summers working in five provinces of China, showed participants gained confidence and skill in pedagogy inclusive of observation, stories, flexibility, cultural appreciation, societal awareness, and mutually shared knowledge in adaptable presentations, actions, modeling, practice, projects, and assessment options. Effective faculty development experiences, just as classroom teaching, needed a foundation of relational communication, flexibility, and interactive learning. |
| Publisher | ACADEMY PUBLISHER |
| Date | 2012-04-01 |
| Source | Theory and Practice in Language Studies Vol 2, No 4 (2012) |
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