Teacher Education Quarterly, Winter 2007 Lessons Learned from a Collaborative Self-Study in International Teacher Education:

Sometimes I feel like a fraud and a failure...at least that´s what I felt after the last class. I guess that the old phrase to go abroad helps you to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange has allowed me time to really think about what I teach and how I teach. I know that asking questions about why things haven´t been as successful as they might is a difficult and painful road on which to embark. But embark I must. If only for my sense of professional growth and for my own sense that I really, really tried to understand. (Francisco, personal journal, 3/05) As the journal entry from one of the authors sug-gests, international teacher education is no easy crossing of borders. At the time he wrote the note, Francisco was teaching a course on multicultural education from international and comparative edu-cation perspectives at the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in Chile in spring, 2005. After a particular Francisco Rios is a professor with th