Teaching in global collaborations: Navigating challenging conversations through cosmopolitan activity

This article examines teachers' participation in a global collaboration, an educational partnership connecting educators and students online. A challenge that emerged involved how to engage in and facilitate online interactions that made manifest participants' conflicting beliefs and opinions, what I refer to as challenging conversations. To mediate challenging conversations, teachers experimented with new digital tools and practices, especially creating and remixing videos, to foster mutual understanding. I discuss findings about how teachers created contexts and conditions for cosmopolitan practice by ethically navigating these challenging conversations, suggesting that a framework of cosmopolitan activity highlights important ethical dimensions in educational cross-cultural collaborations.