Redefining Teaching Competence through Immersive Programs Practices

 "A timely book - broadly insightful, challenging, targeted, and practically useful." -- Fred Hamel, University of Puget Sound, USAThis edited book examines how teacher education utilises international immersion and field teaching (or service-learnin

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Redefining Teaching Competence through Immersive Programs

Daniela Martin · Elizabeth Smolcic Editors

Redefining Teaching Competence through Immersive Programs Practices for Culturally Sustaining Classrooms

Editors Daniela Martin Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine Media, PA, USA

Elizabeth Smolcic Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, USA

ISBN 978-3-030-24787-4 ISBN 978-3-030-24788-1  (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24788-1 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Getty Images/Bashir Osman’s Photography This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Acknowledgements

We offer muchísimas gracias to all who joined in this effort and helped to make it whole. We recognize the contributing authors who stepped up to offer their work as part of this project, opening windows into their activity as teacher educators, program participants, researchers, thinkers, and scholars. We are most grateful to you for your willing cooperation along the way and for your careful and thoughtful feedback to colleagues in our peer review process. Your collaborative energies have greatly increased the quality and depth of this project. We give many special thanks to Adison Godfrey who volunteered her assistance during a long process of editing and review. Her careful review and insightful comments on many chapter drafts, and support in the final stages of compiling this volume were invaluable and we are deeply grateful. Very special appreciation goes to Cassandra Smolcic who willingly directed her creative energies to our project in its early stages. Under her expert guidance, we thought in new ways about what this volum