Each professor has a different experience but they all show the importance on creating and keeping a global community. Also, all of these professors have more than 10 years of experience in teaching. Therefore, the result of this small study may not be relevant for adjunct professors, community professors, or professors who are just starting this career. Also, in this sample, all of them experienced traveling abroad, thus this results may not apply for professors who did not traveled abroad. Lastly, data was retrieved through semiformal interviews, mostly with the following open questions:
1. Tell me a little bit of your curriculum and experience as an educator.
2. Have you ever traveled abroad? How often? (Academic purposed only please). …show more content…
Rachel Jones is an Associate professor in the Philosophy Department at George Mason University, who just recently has gained her Tenure. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Oxford and a MA and PhD on Philosophy and Literature from the University of Warwick. Originally from United Kingdom, Rachel Jones is teaching in the US for a little over five years now. The importance of her participation in this paper is the outsider to insider view that she can offer thanks to her transition to an American University.
Rachel Jones has been teaching since 1996 starting at the University of Warwick, while finishing her Ph.D. in Philosophy and Literature. Now Living in the US since 2010 her international teaching experience is somewhat mix compared to what she was used to do in the UK. Global faculty community is something that she experienced since early on her career. While teaching in the UK, the concept of global faculty usually meant European Academics. Even though it is common to meet international colleagues while she worked in different institutions, Europe in many sense holds the same methodology in teaching as in the US. One thing professor Jones stresses out is the importance of being open to different teaching styles and cultures usually gained while facing international …show more content…
At the beginning she definitively experienced the changes of living outside her own culture. Certainly, the clash of changing a lifestyle to be fitted into a different culture has its challenges in which we need to be open to. Her experience with the American community has been better than she would imagine. Her colleagues are very friendly and always willing to help. Living in another country is not the same compared from what we can learn from a simple exposure to international faculty while we are at home. Much of the international training in grad school, universities prepare the grad student to learn about international faculty and even learning from international faculty, this by articles written by international scholars. But to build a community, Professor Jones emphasizes the need to learn with other international faculty. These truly did not happened until she stated to work in the US. “I cannot really call my peers as outsiders anymore. Eventually they have become home and my colleagues at home have become international.” Professor Jones simply explained how her global community has basically
1. Tell me a little bit of your curriculum and experience as an educator.
2. Have you ever traveled abroad? How often? (Academic purposed only please). …show more content…
Rachel Jones is an Associate professor in the Philosophy Department at George Mason University, who just recently has gained her Tenure. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Oxford and a MA and PhD on Philosophy and Literature from the University of Warwick. Originally from United Kingdom, Rachel Jones is teaching in the US for a little over five years now. The importance of her participation in this paper is the outsider to insider view that she can offer thanks to her transition to an American University.
Rachel Jones has been teaching since 1996 starting at the University of Warwick, while finishing her Ph.D. in Philosophy and Literature. Now Living in the US since 2010 her international teaching experience is somewhat mix compared to what she was used to do in the UK. Global faculty community is something that she experienced since early on her career. While teaching in the UK, the concept of global faculty usually meant European Academics. Even though it is common to meet international colleagues while she worked in different institutions, Europe in many sense holds the same methodology in teaching as in the US. One thing professor Jones stresses out is the importance of being open to different teaching styles and cultures usually gained while facing international …show more content…
At the beginning she definitively experienced the changes of living outside her own culture. Certainly, the clash of changing a lifestyle to be fitted into a different culture has its challenges in which we need to be open to. Her experience with the American community has been better than she would imagine. Her colleagues are very friendly and always willing to help. Living in another country is not the same compared from what we can learn from a simple exposure to international faculty while we are at home. Much of the international training in grad school, universities prepare the grad student to learn about international faculty and even learning from international faculty, this by articles written by international scholars. But to build a community, Professor Jones emphasizes the need to learn with other international faculty. These truly did not happened until she stated to work in the US. “I cannot really call my peers as outsiders anymore. Eventually they have become home and my colleagues at home have become international.” Professor Jones simply explained how her global community has basically