Open AccessIntercultural competencies of Polish and Kazakh teachers explored in their Facebook profiles
Author(s) -
Adam Jagiełło-Rusiłowski,
Zhandarbek Immanchiyev
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
problemy wczesnej edukacji
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2451-2230
pISSN - 1734-1582
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0008.5670
Subject(s) - kazakh , narrative , pedagogy , intercultural competence , intercultural communication , ethnography , mathematics education , sociology , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , anthropology
The aim of the study was to analyze Facebook profi les of teachers in Poland and Kazakhstan as the virtual educational space where intercultural competencies are manifested and further developed. The rationale for intercultural learning was derived from the pedagogies of Abay and Korczak while the list of attitudes, skills and knowledge to be observed was adapted from Deardorff’s (2009) model. Digital ethnographic research approach was used for capturing teachers’ behavior and artifacts in the fi eld site. Teachers collaboration on a divergent problem and focus discussion afterwards provided further narrative material of refl ective nature. The results suggest that Facebook profi les show ample evidence of competent intercultural behavior; they could be considered as e-portfolios and further researched for development of proper educational and validation tools for teacher training involving global networks.