Nurturing Intercultural Minds through International Teaching Practice

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In this research project, international teaching practice was conducted in Vietnam, Korea and China with the aim of facilitating, for students participating in Kochi University's teacher training courses, the development of intercultural perceptiveness with special attention to English language and environmental studies. In addition, a symposium on intercultural communication took place at Kochi University. Taken together these have contributed to the aim of helping future teachers to develop competence in international communication and constituting contributions to the development of teacher training programs in Japan and the countries referred to. It is believed that the participating students have greatly benefited from this project by learning the importance of understanding the similarities and differences between cultures, thus preparing them to be suitably interculturally-minded teachers in the future.