[Download] "Developing Practices in Multiple Worlds: The Role of Identity in Learning to Teach (Report)" by Teacher Education Quarterly " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Developing Practices in Multiple Worlds: The Role of Identity in Learning to Teach (Report)
- Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 206 KB
Description
Recently, researchers and policymakers have begun to question the role of professional education in learning to teach. This inquiry reflects skepticism about the contributions of teacher education, which is, in turn, fueled by popular ideas about the work of teaching: teachers are born not made, or that real learning begins once novices arrive in the classroom (Britzman, 2003). Despite its sometimes dubious reputation, teacher education has an undeniable economic value, as legislation demanding highly qualified teachers presses on schools and districts to recruit candidates who are credentialed by the programs in question. But what, exactly, are the contributions of teacher education to teachers' eventual practice? Our study takes up the challenge of understanding the role of teacher education in learning to teach by connecting novice teachers' experiences in pre-service education with their eventual practice. Through a longitudinal person-centered ethnography, we have been following 8 secondary teachers as they advance through various stages of their education, starting in a progressive, university-based teacher credentialing program, into their student teaching, and, eventually, their induction years in the profession. Four of our interns specialized in mathematics and 4 in social studies. They varied in their subject preparation, reasons for entering the teacher education program, prior education and work experience. In this article we explain how a conceptual framework of teacher identity helps us understand the variations in interns' learning in the first stages of their formal education.