Emerging identities in virtual exchange

Abstract

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Glocality, Reflexivity, Interculturality, and Worldmaking: A Framework for Critical Global Teaching

“…Some teachers do not have knowledge of how to establish partnerships for international collaboration (Kerkhoff & Cloud, 2020;O'Dowd, 2015) or experiences with or access to materials from unfamiliar locations (Slapac, this issue). For example, it is essential that in incorporating virtual exchanges that facilitate critical global education, educators attend to the authenticity of the experience in participation and be careful of hegemony in the interactions (Helm, 2018). In addition to cultural authenticity in experiences and materials and counter-hegemony, partnerships should be horizontal, reciprocal, and equitable.…”

Editorial position paper: how virtual is your research?

“…A first observation is that earlier literature on telecollaboration was more detailed in terms of concrete activities than the later literature on virtual exchanges. Statements in current literature on the topic remain more on the level of goals, such as global citizenship, intercultural communication, social inclusion (Turula, Kurek, & Lewis, 2019), twenty-first century skills, learner agency (Kohn & Hoffstaedter, 2017), critical digital literacy skills (Hauck, 2019), (trans)languaging (Messina Dahlberg & Bagga-Gupta, 2014), learning to learn (Garc ıa-Esteban, Villarreal, & Bueno-Alastuey, 2019), and non-native speaker identity (Helm, 2018). All these are learning goals, not affordances.…”

“Nice to get to know you”

“…Virtual exchange is a form of internationalization in education, more speci cally a means of internationalization at home (Wächter 2003;Garam 2012;Weimer et al 2019), which does not require physical mobility. In VE projects, students from di erent countries collaborate online in a structured, facilitated way as part of educational programs (European Commission 2017;Helm 2018;O'Dowd 2018;Baroni et al 2019;Virtual Exchange Coalition 2019). As pointed out by O'Dowd (2018), although there are other terms in use, such as 'telecollaboration' , 'online intercultural exchange' , 'e-tandem' , or 'globally networked learning' , most of them have been interpreted and applied in an inconsistent way.…”

“…There is growing research interest in the study of discourse in virtual exchange. Drawing on the theoretical framework of situatedness, Helm (2018) analyzed the participants' identity constructions in both the asynchronous and the synchronous platforms of the Soliya Connect Program. The ndings show evidence of re-positioning and the dynamic re-and co-construction of identities in discourse.…”