TY - JOUR
T1 - Conflicting road maps
T2 - cross-cultural professional development for Egyptian educators
AU - Hammad, Waheed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 British Association for International and Comparative Education.
PY - 2016/3/3
Y1 - 2016/3/3
N2 - This article reports on findings from a qualitative research study on overseas teachers’ continuing professional development (CPD). It seeks to explore the perceptions of a cohort of Egyptian teachers about their overseas training experience upon completion of a nine-month training programme in the UK. Data were mainly gathered through four focus-group interviews with a sample of 35 Egyptian teachers during the last week of their stay in England. Findings indicate that the CPD programme did not match teachers’ expectations. In particular, the teachers raised concerns about course content, lack of integration into university life and lack of opportunities for social interaction with other students leading to inadequate language development. The paper explores the clash of aspirations and locates them within a wider discourse of cultural dissonance.
AB - This article reports on findings from a qualitative research study on overseas teachers’ continuing professional development (CPD). It seeks to explore the perceptions of a cohort of Egyptian teachers about their overseas training experience upon completion of a nine-month training programme in the UK. Data were mainly gathered through four focus-group interviews with a sample of 35 Egyptian teachers during the last week of their stay in England. Findings indicate that the CPD programme did not match teachers’ expectations. In particular, the teachers raised concerns about course content, lack of integration into university life and lack of opportunities for social interaction with other students leading to inadequate language development. The paper explores the clash of aspirations and locates them within a wider discourse of cultural dissonance.
KW - continuing professional development
KW - cross-cultural transfer
KW - overseas teacher training
KW - teacher education
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U2 - 10.1080/03057925.2014.985186
DO - 10.1080/03057925.2014.985186
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84960336305
SN - 0305-7925
VL - 46
SP - 293
EP - 313
JO - Compare
JF - Compare
IS - 2
ER -