Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
This study followed 24 teacher candidates in a short-term cultural immersion field experience designed to help them reflect on their assumptions and perspectives in order to better understand the culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse students they will teach. Qualitative methods were informed by a phenomenological research approach to examine candidates’ transformative learning experiences in a cultural immersion context. The findings are discussed within a three-stage framework of transformative learning: triggering experiences, frame of reference examination, and transformative change.
Recommended Citation
Addleman, Rebecca A.; Nava, Robert Ch.; Cevallos, Tatiana; Brazo, Carol J.; and Dixon, Kriston, "Preparing Teacher Candidates to Serve Students From Diverse Backgrounds: Triggering Transformative Learning Through Short-Term Cultural Immersion" (2014). Faculty Publications - College of Education. 234.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/soe_faculty/234
Comments
Originally published in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations Volume 43, Part B, November 2014, Pages 189-200.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2014.08.005