Exploring culture for improving teacher education: A narrative study of a teacher educator

Yim Mei Esther CHAN

Exploring culture for improving teacher education: A narrative study of a teacher educator

Yim Mei Esther CHAN

Department of Early Childhood Education (ECE)

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The focus of this study is to understand the impact of culture on learning that gives insight into how teacher education can be improved. This paper begins by inquiring into the Confucian Heritage Culture and explaining how it shapes Hong Kong Chinese learners into bicultural individuals who are still sticking to a traditional mode of learning. Two cases, explored through a teacher educator's interpretations of experience, are presented to illustrate how a narrative approach is adopted to change the learning habits of student teachers. This study argues that story telling offers opportunities for both teachers and learners to make meanings from their experiences of cultural tensions to facilitate reflection that gives rise to changes in learning. Copyright © 2017 All Academic, Inc.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Apr 2017
Event	2017 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: "Knowledge to Action Achieving the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity" - San Antonio, Texas, United States Duration: 27 Apr 2017 → 01 May 2017 https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting/Previous-Annual-Meetings/2017-Annual-Meeting

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Conference	2017 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: "Knowledge to Action Achieving the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity"
Abbreviated title	AERA 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Antonio, Texas
Period	27/04/17 → 01/05/17
Internet address	https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting/Previous-Annual-Meetings/2017-Annual-Meeting

Exploring culture for improving teacher education: A narrative study of a teacher educator. / CHAN, Yim Mei Esther.
2017. Paper presented at 2017 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: "Knowledge to Action Achieving the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity"
, San Antonio, Texas, United States.

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