Beginning Professionals' Metaphors in an Early Field Placement.

Autor/inn/en	Richards, Janet C.; und weitere
Titel	Beginning Professionals' Metaphors in an Early Field Placement.
Quelle	(1992), (34 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Attitude Measures; Content Analysis; Education Majors; Elementary Education; Field Experience Programs; Higher Education; Journal Writing; Metaphors; Methods Courses; Personal Narratives; Preservice Teacher Education; Student Teaching; Teacher Educators + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Inhaltsanalyse; Elementarunterricht; Praxisnahes Lernen; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Methodisch-didaktische Anleitung; Erlebniserzählung; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Teaching practice; Unterrichtspraxis; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerbildung
Abstract	This study was conducted to examine the value of analyzing student teachers' metaphors for purposes of early identification of beliefs and teaching orientations. Participants were 2 university professors and 23 female elementary education majors enrolled in a reading/language arts methods course designed as an early field placement. During the first and last class meetings, the students were asked to write a two- or three-paragraph narrative describing their views about teaching and themselves as future teachers; also weekly journal entries were kept. At the end of the semester, pre- and post-semester orientations as documented by metaphors, along with statements from journal entries were coded for content using a metaphor identification and recording system. Results suggest that metaphor analysis can provide university teachers with a quick and early indication of students' teaching orientations, affording an opportunity to plan appropriate course activities and seminars; and it was confirmed that novice teachers' beliefs have a profound influence on teaching practice. Appendixes contain examples of student teachers' metaphors; pre- and post-semester teaching orientations as described by metaphors; journal entries demonstrating an authoritarian or a progressive orientation; and an example of a teacher observation coding system. (LL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01