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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2021.41.5.429

From Volunteering to Collaboration, and from Transmission to Learning: Interpreting Science Teachers' Learning Experiences in Interculturalism through International Development Cooperation  

Hwang, Seyoung (National Youth Policy Institute)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.41, no.5, 2021 , pp. 429-440 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this article, we explored the value of interculturalism in developing the discourses of international cooperation in science education. By doing so, we interviewed four teachers who had an experience in teaching science in developing countries, and analyzed their experiences and perceptions in the lens of interculturalism and dialogue. Our analysis of teacher narratives shows the transition in the teachers' perspectives from volunteering and transmission to collaboration and learning. The transition from volunteering to collaboration occurred as the teachers learned how to meet 'the others' as themselves being strangers in the foreign context. Through intervening and colliding, teachers were able to reposition their identities as teachers. Furthermore, their science teaching practices show how the teachers tried to negotiate between the universal or idealistic value of science education and the heterogeneities formed by the country's cultural and specific situation of science education. Through these experiences, the teachers began to understand the importance of the culturally specific 'need' for science education. In conclusion, we proposed a discourse of science education collaboration based on interculturalism in terms of the diversity and complexity of science education practices in developing countries, teacher professionalism, culturally relevant pedagogy and sustainable policy.
Keywords
interculturalism; international development cooperation; official development assistance (ODA); science teacher; qualitative research method;
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