Ithaca College

Phoebe Constantinou, assistant professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education, participated in a panel entitled, "Tension and Teaching: Preservice Teachers, International Experiences, and Changing Professional Identities," at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in New York City, March 24-28, 2008.

This session explored the impact of teaching-related travel on novice teachers' cultural understandings and professional identity. The papers presented in this session discussed how prospective teachers challenge their own understanding of their professional self through international field experiences.