As a result of an extensive experience in Peru made possible through a Fulbright-funded project, we gain insight into the growth and transition undergone by a team of teachers and teacher educators as they become more knowledgeable, skilled and globally-competent at understanding the intercultural dynamics at play students in teaching and learning across cultures. This volume provides further evidence of the critical role that firsthand immersion plays in the development of intercultural competence and how it can impact one’s teaching in both K-12 as well as teacher education contexts.

Kenneth Cushner, Professor Emeritus of International and Intercultural Education, Kent State University; author of Teacher as Traveler

This book immerses readers into the stories of educators whose experiences in a global context challenged their understandings of culture and language and led them to make significant changes in their classrooms. The strength of this book is the invitation to join the journeys of these educators as they struggle with being outside their comfort zones and use that struggle to transform their teaching.

Kathy G. Short, Professor, Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies, College of Education, University of Arizonia; Director, Worlds of Words; Founder's Endowed Chair of Global Children's and Adolescent Literature