Title
Your Culture, My Classroom, Whose Pedagogy?: Negotiating Learning and Understanding in a Brazilian MA-TESOL Program
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2004
Abstract
This article explores the cross-cultural teaching and learning environment of a graduate course in a master’s degree program in teaching English to speakers of other languages (MA-TESOL) offered by a U.S. university in Brazil. The authors analyze the experience of a U.S. professor teaching diverse adult students in Brazil to illustrate and further illuminate what is known about teacher immediacy, communication accommodation, and cross-cultural adjustment. They also raise ethical and pedagogical concerns related to international education endeavors. In this case study of teacher praxis, critical and feminist pedagogical theories are used in conjunction with intercultural communication theory in the development of a culturally flexible pedagogy appropriate to cross-cultural learning environments like this one. Although the context is Brazil and the professor and researcher are from the United States, the broad conceptual strokes of the analysis may be applicable to other intercultural teaching and learning contexts.
Publication Title
Journal of Studies in International Education
Repository Citation
Crabtree, Robbin D. and Sapp, David Alan, "Your Culture, My Classroom, Whose Pedagogy?: Negotiating Learning and Understanding in a Brazilian MA-TESOL Program" (2004). Communication Faculty Publications. 4.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/communications-facultypubs/4
Published Citation
Crabtree, R. D., & Sapp, D. A. (2004). Your Culture, My Classroom, Whose Pedagogy?: Negotiating Learning and Understanding in a Brazilian MA-TESOL Program. Journal of Studies in International Education, 8(1), 105-132.
DOI
10.1177/1028315303260826
Peer Reviewed
Comments
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