Envisioning the 21st Century Online Professional Development for Turkish EFL Preservice Teachers via Webquests: An Exploratory Case Study into Preservice Teachers’ Insights into Global Citizenship Education

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2024-05-10

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Kaçar, Işıl Günseli

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Based on an inquiry-based and socio-constructivist philosophy of learning, webquests are likely to offer multiple experiential opportunities for 21st century EFLpre-service teachers’ professional development. As EFL teachers are expected toeffectively address the learning needs of ever- culturally and linguistically diverselearner profiles today, they need to raise their awareness towards how to incorporatecharacteristics of global citizenship into their future teaching contexts. They alsoneed to be informed of how to align their curricula with global citizenship elementsto foster inclusive classroom practices. Considering the compelling need to raise21st century preservice teachers as inquiry-oriented professionals equipped withthe different dimensions of global citizenship education (i.e. knowledge andunderstanding, skills, as well as values and attitudes), this six-week exploratorycase study focuses on 19 Turkish EFL preservice teachers’ insights into how tointegrate webquests as a tool to raise K-12 learners as global citizens and how topromote global citizenship in K-12 curricula. The participants taking the WorldEnglishes and Culture course received a three-hour online training session ondifferent dimensions of global citizenship prior to their study involvement. Thedata were collected via document analysis, online preservice teacher reflections,and semi-structured interviews and were analysed via the content analysis.Findings indicated the pre-serviced teachers’ enhanced agency towards thecreation of online collaborative differentiated webquest tasks aligned with globalcitizenship for diverse learner profiles as well as their insights into how to usewebquests as a catalyst to foster inclusive practices and a global mindset in K-12learners.Keywords: Global citizenship education, EFL pre-service teachers, inclusivepractices, K-12 learners, teacher agency–5

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https://dbe.metu.edu.tr/convention2024/documents/book-of-abstracts.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/117828

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