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Between Local and Global: The Implementation of International Education in a Taiwanese Preschool
This research aims to explore how international education can be better practiced in the Taiwanese preschool context where there appears a myth for the push of "being global." Collaborative action research was conducted and data was collected from one preschool in Taiwan, which included teaching observations and semi-structured interviews with teachers. Three findings are as follows. First, strategies in the implementation of international education were creating new and genuine foreign contact with flexible design. Second, with the foreign contact experience, children have newfound and brighter cultural vision which trigger children's cultural thinking. Third, children gradually change their cultural bias by simply labelling culture as either Taiwan or foreign without discrimina-
期刊介绍:
The journal serves as a vehicle for reporting and sharing the results of studies by early childhood education in the Pacific area. It is peer reviewed to insure that only high quality manuscripts are accepted for publication. The journal is multi-disciplinary and serves educators and other professionals concerned with the education and care of young children. It focuses primarily on research activities in the Pacific Rim area, though research reports from other areas are not excluded. The journal includes research articles related to the education and care of children from birth to age 8 and to related topics. These include reports of empirical research, reviews of research, critiques of research, and articles related to the applications of research to practice.