Shifting the Kaleidoscope: Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Educators' Insights on Culture Shock, Identity and Pedagogy (46) (Complicated Conversation: A Book Series of Curriculum Studies) - Softcover

Smythe, Jon L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433126834 ISBN 13: 9781433126833

Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

This book examines culture shock and reverse culture shock as valuable learning experiences for educators working in increasingly culturally diverse environments. Although these phenomena are often cast as illnesses to be avoided, this study suggests that both types of shock can help educators develop greater self-understanding and intercultural awareness and will benefit their pedagogical practices as well. For this study, four returned Peace Corps volunteer educators who have taught at various grade levels, both abroad and in the United States, share thought-provoking stories of how their experiences shifted their identities and their approaches to teaching. A Post-structural hermeneutic framework is used to analyze each story in two separate readings as a way of disrupting the flow of each text so that other possible meanings may emerge. The metaphor of the kaleidoscope develops from the study as a way to imagine a curriculum in motion - one in which new and often surprising patterns are created by shifting, juxtaposing and refocusing the multiple lenses within. 'Shifting the Kaleidoscope' should appeal to those readers who are interested in curriculum studies, multicultural education, intercultural awareness, narrative inquiry, post-structuralism, international studies, the Peace Corps and/or teaching English abroad.

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Biografía del autor

Jon L. Smythe is a returned Peace Corps volunteer who taught English in a rural village in Cameroon. He received his PhD in curriculum studies and social foundations from Oklahoma State University and is currently an enrollment services director and adjunct instructor at Tulsa Community College.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1433126834
• ISBN 13: 9781433126833
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264