Publication details
Professional Learning of Student Teachers and its Support during Clinical Practice (Humanistic and Neo-humanistic Trends in Action)
| Authors | |
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | The New Educational Review |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | undergraduate teacher education; facilitation of professional development; mentors; mentor roles and strategies and techniques; intervention types; humanistic and neohumanistic trends in education |
| Description | The paper focuses on undergraduate teacher education, specifically on its phases which in the Czech context have not been sufficiently investigated yet: those of on-the job professional learning and its support (during the so-called Clinical year, i.e. a year-long internship), and subsequent reflection of the on-site experience back at the university. Attention is paid to the forms of support provided by the key facilitators of future teachers professional development, mentors at schools, i.e. to their roles, strategies and techniques adopted in the collaborative relationship with student teachers, as well as to their operationalisation in the form of specific intervention types. Research results shed some light on the implementation of humanistic and neo-humanistic principles by the mentors. |