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A Reader of Narrative
and Critical Lenses
on Intercultural
Teaching and Learning
A volume in
Research for Social Justice: Personal~Passionate~Participatory Inquiry
Ming Fang He and JoAnn Phillion, Series Editors
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A Reader of Narrative
and Critical Lenses
on Intercultural
Teaching and Learning
edited by
Candace Schlein
University of Missouri–Kansas City
Barbara Garii
St. Joseph’s College–Brooklyn
Acknowledgements............................................................................... vii
SECT I O N I
INTERNATIONALIZATION OF TEACHER PREPARATION
v
vi Contents
SECT I O N I I
EXPANDED INTERCULTURAL UNDERSTANDINGS
OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ACCREDITATION STANDARDS
SECT I O N I I I
EDUCATORS’ AND TEACHER EDUCATORS’ INTERCULTURAL EXPERIENCES
SECT I O N I V
TECHNOLOGY AS A TOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL
AND INTERCULTURAL TEACHER PREPARATION
As editors of the book, we would like to thank the series editors, Ming Fang
He and JoAnn Phillion, for all of your careful advice and guidance. You al-
ways made sure that we were supported throughout every stage of this proj-
ect. We are also very grateful for all of the authors who contributed chapters
to this volume. Your work has added much thoughtful discussion to the
field of intercultural education and social justice teaching. Each chapter
provides exciting facets and vantages of intercultural teaching and learn-
ing through unique and thoughtful narrative and critical lenses. We are
also indebted to our evolving AERA group for our ongoing communication
about teaching and learning across and through cultures. We would further
like to thank our colleagues and friends for stimulating and fostering our
inquiries.
On a personal note, Candace Schlein would like to thank Ida Lewis for
reinforcing the value of education and social justice, and to thank Ilan Rai-
kles for reminding her to reach for her dreams. She would additionally like
to thank Jim Chiu for holding her proverbial hand for every page of writing
and editing. A tremendous thank you as well goes out to Neile Schlein, Joe
Schlein, Stacey Schlein, Marlene Lewis, and Jocelyn Allard.
Barbara Garii would like to thank Barbara Beyerbach, Tania Ramalho,
and Anne Fairbrother for expansive and insightful conversations about the
ways in which we think about and incorporate social justice into the fabric
of our professional identities. She would also like to thank Mae Waldron for
her insightful questions that spurred thoughtful answers.
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CHAPTER 1
FOREWORD
Shaping Intercultural Narrative
and Critical Lenses
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& Kaczynski, 2015), and for cultivating passion for pluralism (Basbay, 2014;
Greene, 1995; Halbert & Chigeza, 2015) and social justice in national
(Ayers, Hunt, & Quinn, 1998; Ayers, Quinn, & Stovall, 2009; Darling-Ham-
mond, French, & Garcia-Lopez, 2002) and international teacher education
(Pantic, 2015; Sharma, Phillion, Rahatzad, & Sasser, 2014) as new teachers
develop culturally relevant pedagogy (Basbay, 2014; Gay, 2000; Ladson-Bill-
ings, 1994) that aims for equal and equitable opportunities for all.
In response to such a challenge, many schools of education have es-
tablished teacher preparation programs that include enhanced consid-
eration of diversity. Such programs often include practical components
that enable preservice teachers to participate in hands-on experiences
in schools around the world in multicultural environments. A further
response has been to establish local intranational intercultural experi-
ences for student teachers, whereby prospective educators engage in edu-
cative or professional interactions with students from different cultural
backgrounds. Several exchange opportunities have also been organized
to provide preservice teachers with international professional practice
and/or service learning opportunities (Davison & McCain, 2008; Phil-
lion, Malewski, Rodriguez, Shirley, Kulago, & Bulington, 2008; Salmona,
Partlo, & Kaczynski, 2015; Weiley, 2008), such as those offered through
the Consortium for Overseas Student Teaching (COST) (Consortium for
Overseas Student Teaching, 2013).
Intercultural communication is recognized as an important area of study
and, perhaps more importantly, such communication skills are understood
as necessary precursors to successful participation across professions (Sor-
rells, 2013). Intercultural strategies shape the establishment of a variety of
professional relationships. Simultaneously, preparing students and soon-
to-be professionals to be sensitive to and aware of the intercultural chal-
lenges associated with such communication is a delicate task (Rimmington
& Alagic, 2008; Sorrells, 2013). Within the field of teacher preparation,
much of the research on intercultural teaching relates the impact of such
experiences in terms of the acquisition of intercultural competence (Dear-
dorff, 2009; Fleer, 2012; Stoddart, Bravo, Mosqueda, & Solis, 2013). It is
assumed that the attainment of intercultural competence is associated with
increases to educators’ abilities to engage in teaching within culturally di-
verse classrooms (Cushner & Mahon, 2009; Garii, 2009; Schlein, 2010; Wal-
ters, Garii, & Walters, 2009). As well, intercultural competence is viewed
as a set of skills and dispositions that can only be properly gained through
formal training (Cushner & Mahon, 2009; King & Butler, 2015; Stoddart,
Bravo, Mosqueda, & Solis, 2013), and Byrd Clark (2009) asserted a socially
constructed connection between culture, language, and identity as situated
in a globalized world and across discourses.
Foreword 3
ORGANIZING A READER
ON INTERCULTURAL TEACHING AND LEARNING
voice extends one’s capacity to structure formal and informal learning environ-
ments (King & Butler, 2015; Rimmington & Alagic, 2008) and deepen under-
standing of social justice as both a method for identifying loci of needed change
and a tool for making those changes (Basbay, 2014; Halbert & Chigeza, 2015;
Solinger, Fox, & Irani, 2008). However, in our text, each chapter approaches
facets of intercultural teaching and learning as situated in increasingly inter-
connected societies through four general themes. These themes address the
internationalization of teacher preparation, expanded intercultural under-
standings of professional organizations and accreditation standards, educators’
and teacher educators’ intercultural experiences, and technology as a tool for
international and intercultural teacher preparation. This text includes the per-
spectives of educational researchers with intercultural experiences and teach-
ers across various contexts in order to draw together global insights into this
phenomenon and with respect to the applications of intercultural teaching for
a variety of countries and cultures.
VOLUME OVERVIEW
In this section we outline the chapters for this edited text. We provide a
brief description of each chapter as organized according to the four differ-
ent book sections of: “Internationalization of Teacher Preparation,” “Ex-
panded Intercultural Understandings of Professional Organizations and
Accreditation Standards,” “Educators’ and Teacher Educators’ Intercul-
tural Experiences,” and “Technology as a Tool for International and Inter-
cultural Teacher Preparation.” The chapters might be read in the provided
order, or reading selected chapters across sections of the book might prove
to engage readers in theoretical and pragmatic stimulation.
Rahatzad, Dockrill, and Phillion argued for the critical need to attend
to the “darker side” of international intercultural experiences in “Study
6 C. SCHLEIN & B. GARII
Importantly, this work indicates ways for students and teachers to both
learn about culture and to share knowledge through culture while making
use of educational technologies and online communication venues
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SECTION I
INTERNATIONALIZATION OF TEACHER PREPARATION
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CHAPTER 2
STUDY ABROAD
AND COLONIALITY
Postglobal Teacher Educator Reflections
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BACKGROUND
the settler country context (Kincaid, 2000). This can be understood as con-
trol over international intercultural experiences.
Thirty years after Wilson’s work (1982), we, as teacher educators and
researchers of this study abroad program, continue to encounter colonial
U.S. study abroad students (Ogden, 2007–2008) who choose to remain on
the veranda during their international intercultural experiences. Ogden’s
metaphor of the veranda within study abroad refers to the desire of U.S.
study abroad students to remain above the transformative messiness of in-
ternational intercultural experiences. Instead, the veranda offers a safe,
voyeuristic view of the intended experience.
POSTGLOBAL FRAMEWORK:
POSTCOLONIAL THOUGHT AND NEOLIBERALISM
perspectives (Malewski & Phillion, 2009; Phillion & Malewski, 2011; Rahat-
zad, Sasser, et al., 2013; Sharma, Rahatzad, & Phillion, 2013). However, we
are also aware that study abroad research around teacher education often
paints a rosier picture than is evident if systemic considerations are con-
sidered (e.g., Cushner, 2011). Many academic dialogues have a dominant
emphasis on the individual level at the expense of recognizing systemic
influences on international intercultural experiences. Through a postco-
lonial approach, we are not arguing for a remedy to individual deficits,
but rather advocating for recognition of patterns among individuals that
are indicative of larger epistemological systems. Within teacher education,
Zemach-Bersin (2007) and Phillion et al. (2008) have demonstrated the
importance of Wilson’s (1982) identification of the nature of international
intercultural perspectives as being significant in the learning process of pre-
service teachers. Zemach-Bersin (2007) has outlined the place of U.S. study
abroad within the colonial/modern world system.
DISCUSSION
The Honduras study abroad program began in 2002 with the goal of
providing opportunities for preservice teachers to gain field experience
through international intercultural experiences. The first 7 years incorpo-
rated homestays, field experiences in private bilingual high schools in Te-
gucigalpa, and service learning experiences with local public rural schools.
Not all of these components lasted as the program continued and changes
occurred. Furthermore, the program has recently come under increasing
pressure from the university study abroad office because of the U.S. De-
partment of State’s (2013) travel warning for Honduras (based on statisti-
cal levels of “crime and violence”) and the program has to be justified to
university officials in terms of safety. Such pragmatic issues and experiential
outcomes from program components have necessitated changes as the pro-
gram continued. The beginnings, continuation, and possible future direc-
tions of the study abroad program are discussed in what follows.
The Honduras study abroad program was conceived after university fac-
ulty, including the program founder, of an RU/VH midwestern university
engaged in curricular development at Esperanza School, a private, bilin-
gual elementary school in rural Honduras. The program founder devel-
oped the Honduras study abroad program with the help of a Honduran
doctoral student studying at the midwestern university and the principal
of Esperanza School. Partnerships with underfunded public rural schools
have been developed over time. In the past, the Honduras study abroad
program has also included field experience placements for U.S. preservice
teachers at private, bilingual middle schools and high schools in Teguci-
galpa, and homestay experiences with Honduran families. The program in-
volves trips to cultural and tourist sites on weekends and an end-of-program
trip to Lago Yojoa and Copán. As with any study abroad program, the first
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few years involved determining what worked well and what did not in fulfill-
ing the initial multiculturalist purpose of the program (Mukherjee, 2012).
The inclusion of homestays for preservice teachers is an example of the
pedagogical considerations enacted based on experiences from previous
years. The idea was to provide an opportunity for participants, predomi-
nantly preservice teachers, to experience a more intimate relationality with
the community around Esperanza School. Volunteer host families were
compensated for all expenses (e.g., meals and utilities) and were advised
not to make any special accommodations in order to provide the oppor-
tunity for preservice teachers to observe families’ daily lives. The socioeco-
nomic status of the host families differed greatly; therefore, the homestay
experiences of the preservice teachers were also varied. For example, con-
trary to specific program suggestions, some upper-class host families pro-
vided more expensive “American style” food specifically for the preservice
teachers staying with them, which was food that was not normally consumed
by the family. This type of accommodation to the superficial cultural prefer-
ences of U.S. preservice teachers discouraged an intersectional exploration
of social class and culture. There was a stark absence on the part of pre-
service teachers, despite curricular attention, of social class analysis across
geopolitical borders that would have opened possible spaces for epistemic
border thinking. On the other hand, students complained about host fami-
lies of lower socioeconomic status because of the living conditions, such as
homes with dirt floors. Again, an analysis of class was absent, but in this case
it was a result of experiencing unanticipated discomfort. Both experiences
demonstrated a desire to remain on the colonial veranda throughout the
Honduras study abroad program, despite claims of having “learned from
experiencing difference.” The boundaries that delineate difference within
this example are interior to the colonial world system. There is a necessity
for preservice teachers to extend their reflections to the epistemological
borders that flirt with knowledge and ways of being outside the boundaries
of the colonial world system.
Esperanza School represents a continual navigation of what is pedagogi-
cally beneficial for preservice teachers’ field experiences. As a bilingual
school that emphasizes English language instruction, Esperanza School
represents hierarchical values domestically in Honduras and international-
ly. The school was chosen as an appropriate site for U.S. preservice teacher
field experiences because it does not require Spanish language ability (a
consequence of a short-term program), and a relationship already existed
between Esperanza School and the college of education at the RU/VH mid-
western university.
Throughout the years, it has become evident that Esperanza School is a
place of comfort for U.S. preservice teachers. It embraces the same middle-
class, White values of many public and private schools in the United States.
Study Abroad and Coloniality 23
While Esperanza School is not a public school, its social justice mission
provides spaces for both White preservice teachers and the upper-class
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presented as benevolent in intent through the news media. The stated aims
of USAID (USAID, 2013) include the creation of markets and trade part-
ners for the United States. Many preservice teachers take statements such
as this at face value and as apolitical, with a belief that more markets for
U.S. businesses are beneficial for all. Preservice teachers are often unwill-
ing to acknowledge the neoliberal waters in which they swim. The natural-
ized system in which they exist prevents the consideration of alternative
perspectives.
Furthermore, it has been our experience that in contrast to being chal-
lenged through formal and informal educational experiences, the Hon-
duras study abroad program participants often expect to be served. The
2012 and 2013 program trips involved participants demanding to know
why dinner was almost half an hour late, why the internet Wi-Fi signal was
down, and audibly craving “normal” food from their favorite U.S. chain res-
taurants. Class discussions also revealed the beliefs that paved roads, more
private businesses, fewer trees and open spaces, and more human develop-
ment were key to the “betterment” of Honduran society, without including
the historical experience of Honduras as dependent on richer nation-states
through colonial maintenance. The majority of preservice teachers who
participate in the Honduras study abroad program seek a relatively safe and
predictable experience that can then be marketed for professional and per-
sonal gain. The challenge that such a discrepancy between the preservice
teachers’ desires and our desires as teacher educators is what we attempt to
address continuously.
The program curriculum directly addresses the historical context in
which Honduras was shaped by outside forces (more powerful, imperially
motivated nation-states, and multinational corporations motivated by prof-
it) as a poor nation-state that is economically dependent. The readings,
class discussions, informal conversations, and framing of historical and cul-
tural trips explicitly connect the historical context to the contemporary situ-
ation of Honduras internationally. However, neoliberal discourse pervades
preservice teachers’ engagement with new ideas and information, such
that other knowledges are either incongruent with preconceived ideas, or
there exists an unassailable belief that world circumstances are the result of
“natural” realities and therefore the current world system is inevitable and
preferable from their understandings.
Posttrip interviews reveal how many of the preservice teachers feel “bad”
for their students at Esperanza School. A recent posttrip interview revealed
one program participant’s thinking behind this feeling. Sarah believed that
the students from Esperanza School “probably go home after school and sit in
darkness and loneliness.” Sarah had also articulated an assumption prior to the
Honduras study abroad trip that parents in Honduras do not care about their
children. When asked what she was basing her assumptions on, Sarah searched
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After experiencing just a sliver of Honduras for a short time, the dominant out-
come we have seen expressed by preservice teachers in posttrip interviews is
an essentialization of Honduras and the United States by comparison. General
statements made describing Honduras by participants in posttrip interviews
include: “There is no sense of Honduran identity in Honduras,” “Hondurans
should create more business opportunities like we have here,” and “They need
to do something about corruption.” The journals and written reflections that
program participants submit after returning home abound with vague plati-
tudes about Honduran and U.S. society, yet the belief of having gained aware-
ness and “global competence” permeates participants’ self-descriptions. These
emergent themes and patterns require us to call into consideration a postglob-
al lens and a postcolonial sensibility. There is much rethinking that needs to
be done in order to move away from stale multicultural understandings that
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CRITICAL QUESTIONS
AUTHORS’ REFLECTIONS
As intercultural educators and researchers, all of the authors have had ex-
perience teaching and researching intercultural issues within education
and various experiences working with preservice teachers. We believe that
planetary awareness is essential for the cultivation of self-awareness within
preservice teachers. Planetary awareness is distinct from a global competen-
cy in that it takes up epistemic considerations. This is based on the intercon-
nections between global systemic decision-making structures and processes
(neoliberal globalization) and lived personal experiences of the world’s
various populations. We often feel restricted by institutional constraints and
the academic background of the preservice teachers we work with through
teacher education courses, mentoring relationships, and study abroad pro-
grams. However, we believe that there are ways to subvert constraints on our
work with preservice teachers by exploring the contradictions within the
certainties of modernity.
Within foundational teacher education courses—multicultural educa-
tion and exploring teaching as a career—we seek to focus on the inequi-
ties present in society and the impact on disparate schooling experiences.
Through the Honduras study abroad program, the same courses are en-
gaged in a manner that emphasizes international relations and the impact
on local communities. Our aim is to allow space for preservice teachers to
question and possibly reconsider the myth of equal opportunity and as-
sumption of equitable social relations. This is a long term process that we
as teacher educators aim to work on with preservice teachers at the early
stages of development.
NOTE
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CHAPTER 3
INTERCULTURAL TEACHING
AND LEARNING THROUGH
STUDY ABROAD
Pedagogies of Discomfort, Oppositional
Consciousness and Bridgework
for Equity and Social Justice in Education
Suniti Sharma
Intercultural teaching and learning through study abroad is not a new con-
cept and operates on many registers in educational theory, research, and
practice: at the political level in response to national security issues and
international peace keeping post-9/11 (Stewart, 2007); at the economic
level in response to market forces of globalization and technology (Cush-
ner, 2012); in professional development as a response to growing global
competition in teaching, research, and development (Darling-Hammond,
2010); and in response to immigration and diversity (Malewski, Sharma, &
Phillion, 2012). In recent years, there has been growing awareness among
multicultural teacher educators in the United States that along with the
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