Intercultural Talent Management Model and its Application as an Active Teaching and Learning Strategy. Preservice Teachers in a New Time and Space Dimension: Virtuality

Abstract

To apply effective teaching and learning strategies, it is essential to understand the complexity of human groups, especially in educational contexts. To look for the relationship between the contributions that people make, it is critical to understand the singularities of cultures when developing innovations and to foster leadership in education. This chapter presents an experience developed in Higher Education in Chile focused on the ability of preservice teachers to enhance the development of individual talents as an active teaching and learning strategy to create a society made up of integrally developed people in educational contexts. In addition, we use virtual learning environments as a vehicle to connect students between physical and virtual boundaries. This strategy is based on the Talent Management Model which was implemented in intercultural primary schools by professors and preservice teachers from the south of Chile. The virtuality dimension promoted the detection of individual traits of students and contributed to the development of a cultural identity. Additionally, it offered theoretical and practical knowledge that implied an innovation in the training of future teachers.

Citation

Sepúlveda-Valenzuela, E., Butter, M.C. and Badilla-Quintana, M.G. (2018), "Intercultural Talent Management Model and its Application as an Active Teaching and Learning Strategy. Preservice Teachers in a New Time and Space Dimension: Virtuality", Misseyanni, A., Lytras, M.D., Papadopoulou, P. and Marouli, C. (Ed.) Active Learning Strategies in Higher Education, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 247-272. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78714-487-320181011