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Asia in-Country Experience

Impact on Teachers

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Since 1993, the Asia Education Foundation has offered opportunities for Australian teachers of Studies of Asia to acquire first-hand experience of Asian societies and cultures by undertaking short-term study tours. The study tours continue to be well-subscribed, and schooling sectors across Australia have complemented and extended the range of offerings by conducting their own study tours or other in-country experiences in many instances. This would appear to indicate that Asia in-country experience is considered to be a valuable form of teacher professional development.

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Trevaskis, D. (2013). Asia in-Country Experience. In: Excellence in Scholarship. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-257-0_16

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