Seeking the cosmopolitan teacher: internationalising curricula in a Canadian preservice teacher education program

This paper takes the trans-nationalising conditions of global mobilities, hyper-connectivity and super-diversity as bases for the internationalisation of teacher education (ITE) curricula and for 'seeking the cosmopolitan teacher.' We ground our conception of the cosmopolitan teacher in one novel Canadian exemplar of ITE in which we participate as curriculum developers and teacher educators. In the literature on ITE we find an overlapping set of rationales for, and notions of, the cosmopolitan teacher that link up to our own ITE context. However, still sparse in the literature are details on ITE curricula, which is our primary focus in the presentation of our exemplar. Our seeking the development of the cosmopolitan teacher aligns with the concept of 'cosmopolitan learning' (CL), which aims to deepen learners' critical reflexivities of their situatedness within historically produced global interdependencies. Our paper illustrates how our ITE curricula provoke the 'epistemic virtues' of CL, to support further inquiries into ITE curricula and teaching, as a more pro-active, education-focused internationalisation.