Deakin University
Browse
joseph-internationalstudents-2017.pdf (680.57 kB)

International students experience in teacher education: creating context through play workshops

Download (680.57 kB)
journal contribution
posted on 2017-01-01, 00:00 authored by Dawn JosephDawn Joseph, Liz RouseLiz Rouse
Higher education in Australia attracts many international students. Universities are challenged to prepare them with the necessary understandings, knowledge and skills to effectively participate in their study. For international students, understanding Early Childhood contexts in Australia is a new way of viewing teaching and learning from their own cultural perspective. This paper situates itself as part of a wider study “Improving work placement for international students, their mentors and other stakeholders”. A pilot program was run at Deakin University for the Master of Teaching Early Childhood students to undertake play workshops before commencing placement. Questionnaires were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Three themes emerged and are discussed. The findings show that while play workshops may provide a ‘place and space’ for international students to gain knowledge, skills and understandings before going out on placement, they do have some limitations. Generalisations to other institutions cannot be made.

History

Journal

Australian journal of teacher education

Volume

42

Issue

9

Article number

3

Pagination

44 - 58

Publisher

Edith Cowan University

Location

Joondalup, W.A

ISSN

1835-517X

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2017, The Authors

Usage metrics

    Research Publications

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC