Heidi L. Hollingsworth, Bill Burress, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Mark Enfield
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This scoping review summarizes and analyzes 82 empirical articles on preservice teacher (PST) study abroad of at least three weeks in duration and featuring an education field experience. Our analysis found that most studies focused on cross-cultural/intercultural awareness, understanding, competence, and/or communication, and included small sample sizes of undergraduate PSTs. Findings suggested that study abroad programs with field experiences facilitate growth in PSTs’ knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Limitations to PST gains were apparent, suggesting that study abroad experiences run the risk of reinforcing stereotypes and ethnocentrism. We identify gaps in the literature and offer recommendations for future research.
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Teaching and Teacher Education is an international journal concerned primarily with teachers, teaching, and/or teacher education situated in an international perspective and context. The journal focuses on early childhood through high school (secondary education), teacher preparation, along with higher education concerning teacher professional development and/or teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education is a multidisciplinary journal committed to no single approach, discipline, methodology, or paradigm. The journal welcomes varied approaches (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods) to empirical research; also publishing high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Manuscripts should enhance, build upon, and/or extend the boundaries of theory, research, and/or practice in teaching and teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education does not publish unsolicited Book Reviews.