International teachers negotiating 21st century science classrooms: a question of hybridized identities and pedagogical imaginaries |
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| Authors: | Deborah J Tippins Lorie Hammond Charles B Hutchison |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics and Science Education, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA;(2) Department of Teacher Education, California State University, Sacramento, CA, USA;(3) The University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA |
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| Abstract: | International high school science teachers are crossing international and cultural borders to teach, raising important issues
in education. In this article, we describe the cross-cultural assessment challenges that four international science teachers
encountered when they migrated to teach in the United States. These included differences in grade expectations for a given
quality of work, the weight given to final examinations, the assessment process, and cutoff scores for letter grades. To become
proficient in their new teaching contexts, the participating teachers had to modify (or hybridize) their assessment philosophies
and practices in order to conform to the expectations of their new schools. This hybridization process ushered them into what
is proposed as the Pedagogical imaginary; a transitional space between the ``purity' of their native educational conventions and that of their American schools.
The implications of these findings are discussed in hopes of improving high school science teaching experiences for international
science teachers.
Deborah
J. Tippins is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Georgia. She served as a Fulbright
Scholar in the Philippines where she continues to explore notions of community-based science education. Her research interests
include culturally relevant pedagogy, case-based science teaching and learning and post-structuralist feminist pedagogy and
research. She is intensively involved in professional development of PreK-8 science teachers. In her spare time she likes
to play tennis, travel and take her dog for long walks.
Lorie Hammond is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at California State University at Sacramento. Her work centers
on community-based multicultural science education. For the past 10 years she has been leading action research projects centered
in school-community gardens in diverse urban schools which serve as food security, oral history, science education, and service
learning sites involving children, parents, teachers, and pre-service teachers. Lorie just co-edited a book, Innovations in educational ethnography: Theory, methods and results (2006), with George Spindler, and is finishing a book on how teachers can teach and learn with immigrant communities. She
has recently been engaged in ethnographic and international research with immigrant women, developing relational and equalizing
models of teaching and learning in immigrant communities.
Charles B. Hutchison is an Assistant Professor at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of the book, Teaching in America: A cross-cultural guide for international teachers and their employers, and the upcoming book, Teaching diverse and urban learners: Research, best practices, and lesson planning. He is the recipient of Recognition and Key to the City of Boston, and has appeared on, or been featured by local and international
news media. He was recently invited to participate in the Oxford Round Table at Oxford University, England. He teaches and
provides professional development in science education, cross-cultural and urban education, and instructional strategies for
diverse learners. |
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| Keywords: | Intercultural Cross-cultural International Migrants Assessment Problems Teachers Challenges |
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