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Developing the Intercultural Competence of Early Childhood Preservice Teachers: Preparing Teachers for Culturally Diverse Classrooms
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Lash, Martha; Madrid Akpovo, Samara; Cushner, Kenneth – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2022
This research reports on studies conducted in two early childhood education (ECE) teacher preparation programs focused on increasing preservice teachers' intercultural competence through intercultural teaching and learning and diverse US and international field experiences. Study 1 took place at a large U.S. Midwestern university with the first…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Cultural Awareness
Cultural Humility in an Intercultural Mentor-Mentee Relationship: Overcoming Emotional "Borders and Borderlands" of Nepali-Mentors and US-Mentees
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Thapa, Sapna; Madrid Akpovo, Samara – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
This study examines qualitative data collected during an 8-month ethnographic study that explored the emotional experiences of six student-teachers from a university in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States and five Nepali teachers from an upper-middle-class preschool in Kathmandu, Nepal. The study uncovered how emotional experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Mentors, Intercultural Communication