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This chapter draws from research on the ways in which a group of Australian and Malaysian pre-service teachers reflected on their collaborative experiences during a short-term outbound mobility programme in Malaysia, funded through the Australian Government’s Study Overseas Short-Term Mobility Program. The research focused on how both groups of pre-service teachers reflected on themselves as culturally responsive global citizens during and after the two-week programme in Kuala Lumpur. Findings suggest that from initial ethnocentric assumptions, the Australian and Malaysian pre-service teachers developed a respect for cultural difference through their intercultural encounters with each other, gained deeper insights into their cultural selves as global citizens, and reflected on how global perspectives can be shaped through regional contexts in the Asia–Pacific.
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Henderson, D. et al. (2018). The Global Citizen: Exploring Intercultural Collaborations and the Lived Experience of Australian and Malaysian Students During a Short-Term Study Tour in Malaysia. In: Hall, T., Gray, T., Downey, G., Singh, M. (eds) The Globalisation of Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74579-4_19
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