Abstract
Researchers purport an efficient method to influence student thinking on globalization is to influence their teachers’ thinking. Teachers with a global mindset can impact students to think beyond their own community, state and country. A course was offered to Agriculture and Extension Education majors to develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions of global competency. Nineteen students from two land-grant universities traveled to South Korea for 10 days and engaged with Korean school-based agricultural education, Korean professional teacher organizations and Korean student youth organizations as well as cultural experiences. Students were challenged to keep a reflective journal with provided prompts that were analyzed for emergent themes in global competency knowledge, skills and dispositions. Findings from the journal prompt show that context matters to help students grow personally, professionally and globally. Research implications suggest short-term study abroad embedded courses may not have enough impact to develop enduring globally competent skills of participating teacher candidates.
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