'Unruly pupils' in pre-service English language teachers' teaching practicum experiences

'Unruly pupils' in pre-service English language teachers' teaching practicum experiences

• Gao, Andy Xue Song University of Hong Kong
• Benson, Phil Hong Kong Institute of Education

Journal of Education for Teaching, 38(2), 127-140, 2012

Routledge

2012

• N Students & Student Services
  • NG Student Discipline
• B Human Behaviour
  • BE Behavioural Problems, Unruly & Criminal Behaviours, Juvenile Delinquency, Children & Youth at Risk, Triad Society
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FG Classroom Management & Control

Pupil Discipline Pre-Service Teachers Teaching Practicum Contextual Mediation Transition Hong Kong Education & Educational Research

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

The teaching practicum is a pivotal event for pre-service teachers to experience the transition from being students to being teachers. This paper examines the emergence of 'unruly pupils' as a central concern for pre-service English language teachers in their teaching practicum. The inquiry relates the pre-service teachers' perceived challenge of 'unruly pupils' to the mediation of contextual conditions and processes as well as the marginal positions in which they found themselves during the teaching practicum. The article also reports on the efforts that they undertook to address this perceived challenge. The findings suggest that pre-service teachers are encouraged to interrogate the contextual conditions and processes underlying the perceived challenge of 'unruly pupils' in their transition to being teachers, rather than treat it merely as a relationship challenge.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2012.656440]

• English

Journal Articles

• 02607476

• 10.1080/02607476.2012.656440

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/cfa940bb

2014-07-11