The Social Formation of the Minds of Beginning Teachers in School-based Initial Training
Conference:
ECER 2000
Format:
Paper

Session Information

Session 26.04, Teachers' Identity Formation

Papers

Time:
2000-09-23
16:30-17:30
Room:
G19, AFB
Chair:
David Hartley

Contribution

Data collected from student teachers from two postgraduate training programmes in England over one year are examined using frameworks derived from sociocultural psychology and activity theory. The sample comprised 125 student teachers from which a case study group of twelve student teachers was drawn for intensive study. The research methods included interviews, recordings of conversations and questionnaires. The analysis outlines how training practices in England are producing particular and quite restricted ways of being, seeing and responding among student teachers. The implications of these forms of professional identity for pedagogy, and alternative ways of operating school-based training are discussed.

Author Information

University of Birmingham
University of Birmingham

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