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Abstract—Through the lenses of dissonance theory, resilience theory, and educational best practices, this study provides a thematic analysis of pedagogical experiences of teacher candidates within a South African school to examine what the researcher has termed pedagogical dissonance, pedagogical resilience, sociocultural dissonance, and sociocultural resilience. A thematic analysis of teacher candidates’ journals generated evidence of resilience to overcome dissonance within five categories related to pedagogy and a foreign sociocultural setting.

Index Terms—Pedagogical dissonance, pedagogical resilience, sociocultural dissonance, sociocultural resilience, teaching abroad.

Boyd Bradbury is with the Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA (e-mail: bradbury@mnstate.edu).

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Cite: Boyd L. Bradbury, "The Impact of Pedagogical Dissonance and Associated Resilience within a Foreign Sociocultural Context of Teaching Abroad," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 161-165, 2018.