Virtual/Lived Reality: A Generative Divide for Language Teacher Education
Friday, January 28, 2022 at 3:15 PM–5:15 PM MST
Bobcat
Presentation Summary
Problematizing notions of mobility and interculturality, this conceptual paper takes up the example of use of virtual reality in langauge teacher education pointing to divides between lived and virtual experience that currently trouble theory and practice of interculturality in teacher education but which could become a more generative tension.
Primary Presenter
Erin Kearney, State University of New York at Buffalo
State (if in the U.S.)
NY
Country
US
Professional Biography
Erin Kearney is an Associate Professor, educational linguist, classroom-based researcher and teacher educator, whose research focuses on interculturality in modern language classrooms (preK to university) and preparing language educators for engaging interculturality through their professional practice.
Secondary Presenters
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