The Consensus on Citizenship Education Purposes in Teacher Education

Although education for democratic citizenship has long been a powerful rationale for social studies education, researchers still report a significant gap between this purpose and what is really taught in classrooms. Explanations of this phenomenon vary, but literature on citizenship education (CE) research has largely interpreted this gap as a result of (preservice) teachers’ political worldviews or lack of civic experiences. Other evidence, however, suggests that teacher socialization processes generate conventions about what is necessary, possible, and reasonable in CE that go beyond teachers’ political views and behaviors. This mixed-method study, developed at a Spanish university, aims to explore the understandings of CE shared by preservice teachers with different political ideologies and levels of civic engagement. The findings of this study have deep implications for teacher education courses aimed at fostering CE and the curricular inclusion of current social issues.

As redes de interações dos professores de educação física iniciantes na carreira docente: tecendo fios de socialização

Objetivo: Essa pesquisa teve como objetivo identificar e compreender as redes de interações dos professores de Educação Física iniciantes na carreira, no processo de socialização docente. Métodos: Para isso, foi realizado uma etnografia em duas escolas da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Porto Alegre (RS). Durante o trabalho de campo, que durou seis meses, foram acompanhados dois professores, um de cada escola. Os instrumentos utilizados para obtenção das informações foram diários de campo, observações e entrevistas. O material construído no campo foi compilado e organizado em pastas, após a leitura foram elencadas unidades de significados que nos auxiliaram na construção de categorias de análises. Resultados e conclusão: Compreendemos que as redes de interações são construídas para a socialização dos professores iniciantes nas escolas. A secretaria municipal de educação, a cultura escolar e os pares socializadores são os elementos que tecem os fios da socialização docente dos professores iniciante e são responsáveis, na maioria das vezes, pela permanência e envolvimento destes na cultura escolar.ABSTRACT. The networks of interactions of teachers of physical education beginners in the teaching career: weaving threads of socialization. Objective: Identify and understand the networks of interactions of Physical Education teachers beginning in the career, in the process of teacher socialization. Methods: For this purpose, an ethnography was carried out in two schools of the Municipal Education Network of Porto Alegre (RS). During the fieldwork that lasted six months, were accompanied two teachers, one from each school. The instruments used to obtain the information were field diaries, observations and interviews. The material built in the field was compiled and organized and folders, after reading were listed units of meanings that helped us in the construction of categories of analysis. Results and conclusion: We understand that interaction networks are built for the socialization of beginning teachers in schools. The municipal secretariat of education, school culture and socializing peers are the elements that weave the threads of teacher socialization of beginning teachers and are responsible, for the most part, for their permanence and involvement in school culture.

New Teacher Socialization and the Testing Apparatus

Given the well-documented pervasiveness of high-stakes assessment in preK–12 schools, many researchers have investigated how testing affects students. In this article, Sarah Byrne Bausell and Jocelyn A. Glazier explore the ways that high-stakes testing influences beginning teacher socialization and the ways that teacher colleagues shape one another's responses to these policies. The authors use discourse analysis to examine six years of transcripts collected from a series of quarterly teacher discussion groups, during which elementary school teachers talked about their work within the testing landscape. Their findings indicate that high-stakes testing deeply affects teacher beliefs, practices, and socialization behaviors, thus revealing a troubling tendency to position students as numbers and a sharp decline in talk about teaching philosophies and practices develops alongside the testing policy landscape. Bausell and Glazier recommend that teacher educators prepare future teachers with an understanding of the ways teacher socialization unfolds so that new teachers can be mindful of the factors that may shape their practice.

Teacher Socialization in a Changing World

The purpose of this chapter is to examine teacher socialization with different aspects. Therefore, teacher socialization was investigated as a concept. Afterward, the primary socialization traditions—functionalist, interpretive, and critical—were explained, and then the idea of teacher socialization was examined thoroughly according to these traditions. Throughout the chapter, the items of the stages of socialization, and Lacey's model of socialization, the social strategies of beginning/novice teachers, the socializing factors, the socialization role of preservice teacher education and induction period, socialization in the workplace and culture were examined.

Teacher Socialization and Teacher Isolation

This study addresses teacher socialization and isolation primarily within the context of induction to the profession, workplace learning, and informal learning. Since the content of the subject is covered by fields of sociology, pedagogy, psychology, management, and organization, the concepts of induction to the profession and workplace learning were used to establish the basis for teacher socialization and isolation. How the teacher socializes influences the quality of education because socialization influences how the teacher performs his job. Increased interest in teacher training results in increased teacher quality, thereby increasing educational success. Increased interest in teacher training is accompanied by pursuit for quality in teacher training systems. Increasing teacher quality is not only related to training the teacher in preservice programs. Considering the fact that there are teachers who had received preservice training, yet started the profession prematurely, in-service learning processes are important in efforts to ensure teacher quality as well.