Student Teachers in School Practice An Analysis of Learning Opportunities [Paperback]

This book discusses changes to student teacher education globally and in the UK, exploring how student teachers learn through school teaching practices and ideas for developing and maximizing learning opportunities in school-based student teacher education.1. Introduction 2. Researching Workplace Learning 3. Cultural and Historical Activity Theory: Identifying the Object of Student Teacher Education Activity 4. The Methodological Implications of Working Ethnographically 5. The School History Department: Cultural, Historical and Social Practices in Student Teacher Education 6. The School Modern Foreign Languages Department: Cultural, Historical and Social Practices in Student Teacher Education 7. The School Geography Department: Cultural, Historical and Social Practices in Student Teacher Education 8. The School Science Department: Cultural, Historical and Social Practices in Student Teacher Education 9. An Analysis of Student Teacher Education Tools: Mediating Student Teacher Education Practice 10. The Objects of Student Teacher Education Activity 11. Developing Expert Learners of Teaching and Learning: A Model for Researching and Developing Learning Opportunities in School Settings 12. Conclusions, Implications and Recommendations

Douglas has provided a thorough description and analysis of the interactions of student teachers with schools and mentors in their practicum, through an ethnographic Case Study qualitative approach. & I read Douglas book and learned much more than I expected, in methodology as much as in novice teacher education. I can recommend it wholeheartedly, especially for those running courses entirely based in schools. (John Oversby, Journal of Education for Teaching, Vol. 41 (5), December, 2015)

In an educational era characterized by oversimplified solutions to complex problems, Alaster Scott Douglas provides in this study a deeper, richer look into how schools and departmental faculty work than is l“b