Redefining the development of pre-service teachers' intercultural competence through an online teaching environment

Teacher educators are faced with the dual challenge of preparing teachers for an increasingly globalized world and a digitally enriched world. Building pre-service teachers intercultural and digital competences are therefore priorities. This paper reports on pre-service teachers' perceptions of their intercultural competence after participating in an online teaching and learning environment, eTutor, that partnered them with culturally diverse children from local and international primary and secondary schools. Analysis of pre-service teacher reflections shows that the experience of tutoring culturally diverse children online does contribute to the development of intercultural competence and that online spaces can redefine how intercultural competence can be developed in pre-service teachers.