The impact of personal history on student teachers' learning to teach

The impact of personal history on student teachers' learning to teach

• Tang, Yee Fan Sylvia The Hong Kong Institute of Education

1998

British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 1998 (1998: The Queen's University of Belfast, Ireland)

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MG Identities, Attitudes & Opinion of Educational Workers

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This paper attempts to explore the complex and multi-dimensional nature of student teachers’ learning to teach in teaching practice from the life history perspective. It first reviews the relevant literature portraying the life history perspective, with particular reference to student teachers’ learning. It then presents the methodology and findings of a pilot study of student teachers’ learning to teach in Hong Kong, adopting the life history lens to analyze the qualitative data collected. The tentative analysis of the data collected tells that the life history perspective is far from offering an adequate explanation of the complexity of student teachers’ learning. Suggestions are made on using the teacher socialization perspective as a conceptual alternative to guide future research.

Paper presented at British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 1998

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/ea5160e1

2015-03-17