scholarly journals Det første møtets sødme? Lærerstudenters første møte med praksisfeltet

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Anne Bonnevie Lund ◽  
Anna Järnerot ◽  
Nicole Veelo

This article reports on a qualitative study on the experiences of 126 newly educated preservice teachers from their first encounter with the field of practice, consisting of one week of observations occurring within the first weeks of their studies. The objective of the study was to elucidate the way in which the students’ understanding of the teacher role was altered by this experience, and how their emerging identities as teacher students were affected. The study was conducted through an online open-ended questionnaire and two focus group interviews which were analyzed using Grounded Theory and a constant comparative method. Results indicate that the students primarily focus their attention on the execution of class management, that is, the performance-aspect of the teacher role. Additionally, many students discovered that there is so much more to leading a class than what they had thought or experienced as pupils themselves. Although the development of a teacher identity takes time, the study shows that this development can start early. Observation practice is valuable in this regard. It also gives students relevance and meaning, and is a major influence on their motivation and further commitment.

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-63
Author(s):  
Anne Bonnevie Lund ◽  
Anna Järnerot

This article is based on a study of the reflection notes written by 62 first term preservice teachers. These reflection notes revolve around how they understand their future professional roles, their concepts of the “good teacher”, and to what degree they feel qualified to become competent professionals. The data was analysed through open coding and constant comparative method. The participants show insight into important aspects of the teaching role. They have their own ideas, visions, and place importance on their own professional attainment. A significant majority of the preservice teachers found their duties to be more complex and demanding than anticipated. In particular, the intense need for involvement and the amount of unforeseen issues that arose came as a surprise to many. The participants display high expectations of themselves in terms of classroom management, but at the same time seem to have faith in their abilities to meet these expectations. At an early stage in their education, we can see a dawning teacher identity among the participants.


2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura McFarland-Piazza ◽  
Alison Lord ◽  
Melissa Smith ◽  
Belinda Downey

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY was to explore how connections between families, communities and educators can be facilitated in teacher education courses through the use of playgroups. Barriers to building relationships, as well as the perceived benefits of these relationships to families and pre-service teachers, were also explored. Participants were involved in weekly university-based community playgroups. Focus group interviews were conducted and the constant comparative method was used to analyse interview transcripts. Themes of ‘Constraints’ and ‘Enablers’ emerged from pre-service teachers' transcripts, indicating that they were initially uncomfortable with community and family involvement but eventually made connections as to why this was important. The theme of ‘positive relationship building’ emerged from parents' transcripts, indicating that they saw building relationships with families and communities as an important role of early childhood educators. Implications for the importance of authentic learning situations for fostering these relationships in teacher education courses are discussed.


Author(s):  
Wajeeh Daher

The constant comparative method (Lincoln & Guba, 1985) was used to analyze preservice teachers’ discussions and interactions in wiki discussion sections regarding geometric lessons that were written by other preservice teachers in the year before. The data was compared for the following interaction aspects of knowledge building: dialogical actions, participants’ roles, and discussion tracks. Research shows that building their content and pedagogic content knowledge, the preservice teachers together with the lecturer used mainly proposing, asking, requesting, arguing, presenting, and moving the discussion forward as dialogical actions. Proposing and asking were used for various goals such as proposing various ideas and actions, and asking about different issues concerned with geometric content and pedagogic content knowledge. The lecturer asked questions more than the preservice teachers, while the preservice teachers proposed more than the lecturer. The knowledge building was collaborative in nature, and one important aspect which enabled the collaboration is the topology of the wiki discussion section. This topology enables presenting the content of the messages; not just the titles, where the contents are presented as having the same level and thus the same importance.


2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Bente Velle Hellang ◽  
Gro-Renée Rambø

De siste tiårs forskning, samfunnsdebatt og politikkutforming knyttet til skolesektoren har vært preget av diskusjoner om hva det egentlig innebærer å være en kompetent lærer, og hvordan de to læringsarenaene i lærerutdanningene – teoriarenaen og praksisarenaen – best kan utfylle hverandre for å utdanne kompetente lærere. I denne artikkelen presenterer vi resultatene fra en undersøkelse blant grunnskolelærerstudenter på én utdanningsinstitusjons grunnskolelærerutdanning for 1.–7. trinn. I undersøkelsen har vi rettet blikket mot studentenes opplevelser av lærerrollen og av sammenhengen mellom teoriarenaen og praksisarenaen. Dette har vi gjort i tilknytning til ett spesifikt undervisningsfag i lærerutdanningen – norskfaget. Gjennom en spørreskjemaundersøkelse og gruppeintervjuer har vi bedt studentene svare på hvordan de mener at norskfaglig kompetanse bidrar til at de kan fylle lærerrollen på en god måte, og hvordan de opplever sammenhengen mellom undervisning i norskfaget ved lærerutdanningsinstitusjonen og praksiserfaringer fra norskfaget i skolen. Målsettingen med artikkelen er å bidra til diskusjonen om hvordan man best mulig kan legge til rette for en god lærerutdanning, hvor studenter og lærerutdannere (på både praksisarenaen og teoriarenaen) opplever gjensidig toleranse og felles forståelse for kompleksiteten som ligger i denne profesjonsutdanningen, og der de anerkjenner de to læringsarenaenes likeverdighet. Hovedfunnene er at lærerstudentene ikke uten videre klarer å omsette kunnskap mellom de to læringsarenaene, at de i stor grad ser relasjonskompetanse som viktigere enn fagkompetanse, at disse to kompetanseområdene er uavhengige av hverandre og at praksisarenaen er viktigere enn teoriarenaen som grunnlag for å tre inn i lærerrollen.Nøkkelord: lærerutdanning, lærerstudent, lærerkompetanse, lærerrolle, fagkunnskap, læringsarenaer, norskfagetAbstractDuring the last few decades, research, public debate and policymaking related to the school sector, have been characterized by discussions concerning what being a competent teacher involves. Another issue has been how the two learning arenas in teacher education – the theory arena and the practice arena – can best complement each other to educate competent teachers. In this article we present and discuss results from an investigation conducted among teacher students in teacher education 1-7 at one particular educational institution. We have focused on getting across the students´ experiences and understanding of what the teacher role comprises, and how they see the connections between the two learning arenas as campus training and practice training in partner schools in the school subject Norwegian. This is done using a survey and group interviews. Our goal has been to contribute to the ongoing discussion about how to develop a teacher education in which teacher students and teacher educators (in both learning arenas) share an understanding of mutual tolerance and respect. Another has been to develop a common understanding of the complexity of teacher education, and thereby recognizing the equivalence of the students` two learning arenas. Our main findings are that the respondents are not automatically able to transfer knowledge between the two arenas. Consider relational competence more important than subject competence, that these two competence areas are seen as independent of each other, and that the practice arena is considered as more important than the theory arena for developing the role of the teacher.Key words: teacher education, student teacher, teacher competence, teacher role, subject knowledge, learning arenas, the subject Norwegian


2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wajeeh Daher

The constant comparative method (Lincoln & Guba, 1985) was used to analyze preservice teachers’ discussions and interactions in wiki discussion sections regarding geometric lessons that were written by other preservice teachers in the year before. The data was compared for the following interaction aspects of knowledge building: dialogical actions, participants’ roles, and discussion tracks. Research shows that building their content and pedagogic content knowledge, the preservice teachers together with the lecturer used mainly proposing, asking, requesting, arguing, presenting, and moving the discussion forward as dialogical actions. Proposing and asking were used for various goals such as proposing various ideas and actions, and asking about different issues concerned with geometric content and pedagogic content knowledge. The lecturer asked questions more than the preservice teachers, while the preservice teachers proposed more than the lecturer. The knowledge building was collaborative in nature, and one important aspect which enabled the collaboration is the topology of the wiki discussion section. This topology enables presenting the content of the messages; not just the titles, where the contents are presented as having the same level and thus the same importance.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Dowling ◽  
Somikazi Deyi ◽  
Anele Gobodwana

While there have been a number of studies on the decontextualisation and secularisation of traditional ritual music in America, Taiwan and other parts of the globe, very little has been written on the processes and transformations that South Africa’s indigenous ceremonial songs go through over time. This study was prompted by the authors’ interest in, and engagement with the Xhosa initiation song Somagwaza, which has been re-imagined as a popular song, but has also purportedly found its way into other religious spaces. In this article, we attempted to investigate the extent to which the song Somagwaza is still associated with the Xhosa initiation ritual and to analyse evidence of it being decontextualised and secularised in contemporary South Africa. Our methodology included an examination of the various academic treatments of the song, an analysis of the lyrics of a popular song, bearing the same name, holding small focus group discussions, and distributing questionnaires to speakers of isiXhosa on the topic of the song. The data gathered were analysed using the constant comparative method of analysing qualitative research.


2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Bejo Danang Saputra

Perencanaan pengembangan uji kompetensi perawat Indonesia akan dikembangkan  dengan metode OSCE.. Pelaksanaan uji OSCE membutuhkan persiapan yang matang, terutama kesiapan sumber daya manusia (SDM) dalam hal ini adalah dosen untuk melaksanakan uji OSCE. Mengetahui kesiapan SDM dalam pengembangan uji OSCE di Prodi D3 Keperawatan Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan (STIKES) Al-Irsyad Al-Islamiyyah Cilacap. Desain penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif dengan rancangan studi kasus. Informan penelitian adalah 6 orang dosen dan Kepala Program Studi D3 keperawatan. Data diperoleh melalui, focus group discussion, wawancara mendalam dan studi dokumentasi. Data kemudian dianalisis dengan menggunakan constant comparative method. Penelitian menunjukan bahwa pengetahuan dosen tentang OSCE dan kompetensi berdasarkan pendidikan memenuhi persyaratan untuk pengembangan uji OSCE, namun masih membutuhkan pelatihan mengenai OSCE. Uji OSCE dapat diselenggarakan dengan melibatkan dosen dari prodi lain karena jumlah dosen di Prodi D3 Keperawatan  STIKES Al-Irsyad Al-Islamiyyah Cilacap belum memenuhi kebutuhan pelaksanaan uji OSCE. Hambatan penyelenggaraan OSCE adalah SDM belum terkoordinasi, belum terlatih dan keterbatasan sarana pendukun. Pengetahuan dan kompetensi dosen berdasarkan tingkat pendidikan memenuhi syarat dalam pengembangan OSCE dan OSCE dapat diselenggarakan dengan melibatkan dosen prodi lain.


Author(s):  
Alison LaGarry ◽  
Timothy Conder

This chapter, “How ‘Identity Play’ Protects White Privilege: A Meta-Ethnographic Methodological Test,” presents the findings of a 2013 meta-ethnographic analysis on White identity in preservice teachers (PSTs), as well as a methodological test of those findings in light of recent publications on Second-Wave White Teacher Identity Studies (SWWTIS). In the 2013 meta-ethnography, the authors first found a reciprocal argument in which the authors described similar tools or strategies by which White PSTs defended their own privilege. Through further reflexive interpretation, the authors then found a line of argument that situated the multiple theories used in the studies as contested spaces in a larger figured world of whiteness. In testing findings from 2013 against recently published studies on SWWTIS, the authors found that the earlier study anticipated a shift in thinking and theorizing within the field.


2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-70
Author(s):  
Crystal Sieger

Students choosing to enter the music teaching profession after having already obtained undergraduate degrees in other music fields may experience unique forms of socialization and teacher identity development. Participants were four students enrolled in a 3-year master’s program with a music teacher licensure component. Through individual and focus group interviews, participants shared their perspectives on program experiences, course elements, and interactions with peers and professors as important influences on their developing music teacher identity. I examined the data for emerging patterns and applied open and axial coding to the most prominent responses, resulting in themes centered on participants’ socialization experiences, desire for independence, need for self-justification, and “outsider” status among peers. To combat lack of peer recognition or support, participants developed strong, collaborative relations with each other. Implications for music teacher educators are considered.


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