The journey to becoming professionals: Student teachers’ experiences of teaching practice in a rural South African context

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 141-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tabitha Grace Mukeredzi ◽  
April R. Mandrona
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
South African ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
South African Context ◽  
Rural South ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
African Context

scholarly journals A Finnish model of teacher education informs a South African one: A teaching school as a pedagogical laboratory

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anni Loukomies ◽  
Nadine Petersen ◽  
Jari Lavonen
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
South African ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
African Context

In this study, we examined student teachers’ learning during their teaching placement period in Finland and South Africa. The setting of the inquiry in both countries was a ‘teaching’ school, affiliated to a university teacher education programme. The teaching school is also referred to as an educational innovation that was transferred from the Finnish context to the South African context. Data were collected through an interview protocol. The findings show that the students, like many of their counterparts in different parts of the world, focused on teaching tools and methods as well as classroom management as a gateway to their teaching career. The extended teaching placement period at both the university teaching schools was expected to yield some findings about the intersection of teaching practice and its supporting theories because of the close collaboration of the schools and the universities. Some of the findings satisfied this expectation while other parts did not, confirming that initial teacher education may be regarded as a platform for learning to be teachers, but it has its own limits even in a pedagogical ‘laboratory’. The transfer of the educational innovation was regarded as successful.

Exploring recidivism in the South African context.

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Bedell ◽  
Nicholas Challis ◽  
Charl Cilliers ◽  
Joy Cole ◽  
Wendy Corry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
African Context
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