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- Title
Partnerships in education shared understandings: enhancing the practicum.
- Authors
Russell, Barbara; Chapman, Jan
- Abstract
This research is a qualitative study of twenty-five teachers who have taken time away from the classroom to work on short-term contracts in a University College of Education pre-service teacher education program. The study considers their perceptions of the ways in which this experience has enhanced their professional development in terms of greater understanding, expertise and career prospects and how it has changed their own teaching practices when they returned to a school or centre. It explores whether this experience has enhanced their professional roles within the school setting, particularly in having input into new initiatives and policies. The study also examines ways in which their increased knowledge of the academic requirements of the university together with their increased understanding of the role of both the school/centre and the college in the pre-service teacher education program is perceived as enabling them to better support students during the practicum. In the case of those who returned to senior positions within a school or centre their ability to be resource persons for other associate/tutor teachers within the school is also examined.
- Subjects
TEACHER training; TEACHER training courses; OCCUPATIONAL training; TEACHER development; CAREER development; CLASSROOMS; PRACTICUMS; SCHOOL environment; CLASSROOM environment; TEACHERS' contracts
- Publication
Pacific-Asian Education Journal, 2001, Vol 13, Issue 2, p74
- ISSN
1019-8725
- Publication type
Article