Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to share a technology-enhanced international-
ization project between the largest teacher training college in Tel Aviv, Is-
rael, and a university in the New York City metropolitan area. The experi-
ence was designed around a project-based learning task approach (PBLT) in
which student teachers from both institutions compared and contrasted the
challenges and experiences of minority students in both educational contexts.
Finally, they constructed an electronic poster presenting their findings. The
objective of the Israeli research team was to provide an authentic language
experience in English using telecollaboration with members of the target
language culture in the United States. The project was designed mainly to
promote the student teachers’ motivation to use English as a foreign lan-
guage with their international partners, as well as to elicit student teachers’ reflection on education as a means to social justice in a global context.
Although data were collected by both the American and the Israeli teams,
this chapter reports research carried out on the Israeli students only.
ization project between the largest teacher training college in Tel Aviv, Is-
rael, and a university in the New York City metropolitan area. The experi-
ence was designed around a project-based learning task approach (PBLT) in
which student teachers from both institutions compared and contrasted the
challenges and experiences of minority students in both educational contexts.
Finally, they constructed an electronic poster presenting their findings. The
objective of the Israeli research team was to provide an authentic language
experience in English using telecollaboration with members of the target
language culture in the United States. The project was designed mainly to
promote the student teachers’ motivation to use English as a foreign lan-
guage with their international partners, as well as to elicit student teachers’ reflection on education as a means to social justice in a global context.
Although data were collected by both the American and the Israeli teams,
this chapter reports research carried out on the Israeli students only.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education |
| Subtitle of host publication | Successes and Challenges Within Local and International Contexts |
| Editors | David Schwarzer, Beatrice Bridglall |
| Place of Publication | Lanham, Maryland |
| Publisher | Lexington Books |
| Chapter | 7 |
| Pages | 149-171 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781498504362 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781498504355 |
| State | Published - 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |