“We just have different colors”: Enhancing Student Teachers’ Multicultural Sensitivity Through International Field Experience

서지정보

ㆍ발행기관 : 한국다문화교육학회 ㆍ수록지정보 : 다문화교육연구 / 2권 / 1호
ㆍ저자명 : 주미경, 안성호, 안미리

목차

I. INTRODUCTION
II. MULTICULTURAL SENSITIVITY & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT TEACHING
III. RESEARCH METHOD
IV. Findings
V. Conclusions
References

영어 초록

This research investigated the impact of the International Student Teacher ExchangeProgram (I-STEP) on the enhancement of preservice teachers’ cultural sensitivity. Theresults of this research are consistent to the findings from previous studies confirming thepositive effect of international field experiences. Specifically, the analysis of thequantitative survey showed that the 2008 I-STEP programs were effective in improvingparticipant impressions on the hosts’ ethno-groups. The journal analysis confirmed thisresult by showing that the preservice teachers reconsidered their beliefs about other ethnicgroups through the program participation. Although the participants had possessed a setof biases about the ethnic groups, the participants interacted with host ethnic groups andreconsidered their beliefs about the groups. Through person-to-person interaction, theparticipants found that human beings share some commonalities in ways of feeling andliving. At the same time, they realized that people can be different and that thedifferences are cultural constructions. As the I-STEP allowed the participants to access toothers’ lived worlds, they witnessed other possibilities of being in the world andreflected upon their own ways of living. Thus, this experience of cultural emersionexpanded the participants’ worldviews and developed the attitude of active respect. Basedon these findings, this paper presents several implications for the future development ofinternational field experience programs for preservice teachers and further of multiculturalteacher education curricula in general.[Key Words] Multicultural teacher education, International field experience, Culturalsensitivity

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