Narratives of Learning Through International Professional Experience

1. Front Matter

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2. Monash University International Professional Experience Program

   • Judy Williams, Ange Fitzgerald, Graham Parr

   Pages 1-14

3. Tourist, Tour Guide, Traveller, Travel Agent? Reflections on Leading and Learning from International Professional Experiences

   • Ange Fitzgerald

   Pages 15-27

4. Pre-service Teachers’ International Teaching Placement: Outcomes for the Accompanying Academic

   • Gillian Kidman, Catherine Lang, Marcelle Cacciattolo

   Pages 29-45

5. Self-Interest and Ethical Praxis Agendas in an International Teaching Practicum

   • Graham Parr, Julie Faulkner, Craig Rowe

   Pages 47-62

6. Going with the Flow: Pre-service Teacher Learning in, About and with Community

   • Robyn Babaeff

   Pages 63-75

7. Mentoring-Learning in a Cross-Language and Cross-Cultural Framework: Australian Pre-service Teachers and Israeli Mentor-Teachers

   • Janina Kahn-Horwitz, David Mittelberg, Roberta Bell-Kligler, Rachael Gelfman Schultz

   Pages 77-93

8. Building Intercultural Competence and Professional Confidence Through Collaboration in an Italian IPE

   • Libby Tudball, Michael Phillips

   Pages 95-110

9. Outside in: Learning from an International Professional Experience Program

   • Pearl Subban, Allie Clemans

   Pages 111-123

10. The Influence of an International Context on a Teacher Educator’s Knowledge, Practice and Identity

    • Michael Phillips

    Pages 125-138

11. Acknowledging and Learning from Discomfort: The Learners’ Perspective

    • Gillian Kidman, Zoe Davies, Cassy Eaton

    Pages 139-152

12. Resilience, Global Threat, and International Professional Experience

    • Julie Faulkner, Anne Keary, Jan Drew

    Pages 153-167

13. Learning from Leading: A Teacher Educator’s Perspective of Learning Through Leading an International Professional Experience

    • Judy Williams

    Pages 169-184

This book presents a collection of research-based narratives exploring the learning of pre-service teachers and teacher educators in a range of international professional experience (IPE) settings. The narratives, based on over 20 years of IPE managed by an Australian faculty of education, capture the lessons learnt from the IPE program from a variety of perspectives, including academic staff, pre-service teachers and in-country partners. Four key themes emerge from the narratives: identity, learning through discomfort, collaboration and relationships. At a time when critics of teacher education are arguing for more predictable, standardised programs and practices, this book advocates for richly diverse, innovative programs that better prepare the next generation of educators for teaching in a multicultural, uncertain future.

• International professional experience
• School placement/practicum
• Global engagement
• Global education
• Internationalisation
• Culturally responsive
• Narrative inquiry
• learning and instruction

• Monash University , Melbourne, Australia

  Ange Fitzgerald, Graham Parr, Judy Williams

Ange Fitzgerald led the Faculty’s International Professional Experience (IPE) programs in 2015-16 and has worked on establishing and/or leading IPE to the Cook Islands, India, Italy, Israel, Nepal, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. Outside this space, she works with initial teacher education students, mainly in the area of primary science education as well as in general education studies focused on development and engagement. Ange’s research interests involve engaging in classroom-based practices aimed at better understanding what quality science learning and teaching looks like in primary schools and why.   


Graham Parr is an associate professor and director of Graduate Research in the Faculty of Education, Monash University. He is a fellow of the Monash Education Academy and is currently a member of the Academy’s Executive Council. His research interests include teacher education, teacher professional learning, English teaching, na

rrative in research and creativity in English education. Together with colleagues at Monash South Africa and Monash Australia, Graham co-founded and led the South African teaching practicum (2009-2012). He has published widely in international journals and books about this practicum and other teacher education initiatives he has led.

Judy Williams teaches undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of pedagogy, professional studies, professional experience, and research methods. Her particular areas of interest are teacher and teacher educator professional learning, professional ‘becoming,’ reflective practice, self-study of teacher education practices, and professional experience. Judy has worked on establishing and/or leading IPE to Hong Kong, Malaysia and the Cook Islands.  

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