Simulation for Participatory Education: Virtual Exchange and Worldwide Collaboration (Springer Texts in Education)

This textbook explores the use of simulation within the context of education and internationalization. Simulation is broken down into its phases and these elements are discussed by experts, most of whom have long tradition in the application of simulation. Simulation is treated with references to the specific needs of practitioners, educators and researchers in initiating and developing simulation in different fields of study, with specific reference to teacher education.
This volume focuses on presenting simulation as a means to facilitating students’ openness to complexity and development of intercultural skills through virtual exchange. Thus, it provides educators and researchers with a conceptual and practical resource that tackles the critical role of cognitive and metacognitive complexity in the education of future global professionals through intercultural pedagogy.
By tracing the roots of simulation and outlining a framework to support professional learning through experiential-based research, this textbook will prove invaluable for teacher trainers, practitioners and researchers interested in simulation.

María Laura Angelini is an accredited lecturer and researcher at the Universidad Católica of Valencia 'San Vicente Mártir'. She is the Chief Researcher of the Interdisciplinary Group on Active Learning and Assessment (IGALA). Dr. Angelini integrates active teaching-learning methods and formative and shared assessment. She conducts action research through the application of simulation in English language teaching, which is reflected in her numerous publications. She has recently published the books “Learning Through Simulations. Ideas for Educational Practitioners” (2021) Ed. Springer; and “La simulación como estrategia educativa. Propuesta adaptada para el medio físico y virtual” (2021) Ed. Dykinson. She is an Erasmus+ accredited Virtual Exchange trainer. In her teaching, she promotes understanding of social issues, encourages respect for human and animal rights, and the development of empathy through simulation scenarios. She is currently researching the effectiveness of large-scale simulation through virtual exchanges between in-service teachers, teacher trainees and academics from different institutions worldwide.

Rut Muñiz Calderón is a senior lecturer of ESP at Universidad Católica de Valencia (UCV). She received a PhD in English philology from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain (2011). She teaches Business English and Legal English in the Business Administration degree, Multimedia and Digital Arts and Law degrees and Maritime Law master’s degree she also teaches English language Didactics in the pre -service teacher instruction master’s degree. Her research areas are contrastive linguistics,  the analysis of professional and academic discourse and its linguistics variations, intercultural communication, Virtual Exchange and simulation. She has presented papers at international conferences and is the author of several publications. She has carried out international teaching stays and virtual exchanges and is also a member of the IGALA research group as PI of the Virtual Exchange research line.