Short-term International Experience (STIE) and Students' Understanding of Quality Early Childhood Service Provision

Title
Short-term International Experience (STIE) and Students' Understanding of Quality Early Childhood Service Provision
Publication Date
2018
Author(s)
Sims, Margaret
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4686-4245
Email: msims7@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:msims7
Nishida, Yukiyo
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0313-6072
Email: ynishid2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ynishid2
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Canadian Center of Science and Education
Place of publication
Canada
DOI
10.5539/jel.v7n2p21
UNE publication id
une:22712
Abstract
Exposing pre-service teachers to international professional experiences through a short-term visiting programme serves to challenge their understandings of good quality practice through disturbing assumptions and expectations previously formed through experiences in their own country/culture. Much of the research in international study focuses on pre-service teachers preparing to teach in primary, secondary or language classes. In this study we present the perceptions of pre-service early childhood students who underwent a short-term international experience. In particular we explore the ways in which their experiences impacted on their understandings of quality early childhood service provision. In the increasingly neoliberal Australian early childhood sector externally imposed standards define quality and this is enacted in relatively homogenous ways in practice, opportunities to observe practice arising from different understandings serves to challenge thinking, potentially leading to different world views (Piaget’s accommodation).
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Citation
Journal of Education and Learning, 7(2), p. 21-33
ISSN
1927-5269
1927-5250
Start page
21
End page
33

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