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Creating an Ecology of Affordances to Allow Australian Pre-service Teachers to Get to Know and Make Sense of China

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Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects ((EDAP,volume 30))

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This chapter reports the reflections of two Australian teacher educators, captured through their planning emails, as they accompanied a group of Australian pre-service teachers on a short-term international experience (STIE) in China in June 2014. The ten pre-service teachers would, among other things, encounter culturally embedded (many of them ‘linguistic’) differences as they ‘got to know’ and ‘made sense of’ China. The two teacher educators capture their own conceptualisation of pre-service teachers’ processes of learning-to-know for framing of such student mobility programs in the future.

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  1. Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Lesley Harbon (Honorary Associate Professor in Languages Education) & Catherine Smyth

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  2. The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong

    Po Keung Eric Tsang

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Harbon, L., Smyth, C. (2016). Creating an Ecology of Affordances to Allow Australian Pre-service Teachers to Get to Know and Make Sense of China. In: Robertson, M., Tsang, P. (eds) Everyday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 30. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0216-8_13

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