Article
Affective Responses of Overseas Student Teachers
Journal of College Teaching & Learning
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2007
Abstract
Universities offering teacher education degrees are finding the world to be significantly smaller than did previous generations. Increasingly, American students are completing their required student teaching in foreign contexts. The present research study used rigorous qualitative methods in order to appraise the affective experiences from a sample of 13 students who completed their student teaching overseas. Results showed, affectively, students experienced a bell-shaped curve phenomenon. Particularly, they underwent stages of excitement when entering the teaching experience, followed by significant dysphoria, and then completed their student teaching with a positive emotional set.
Disciplines
- Education and
- Psychology
Keywords
- Student teaching,
- research,
- social support
Citation Information
Firmin, M., Firmin, R., & MacKay, B. (2007). Affective responses of overseas student teachers. Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 4, 1-8.