A Finnish model of teacher education informs a South African one: A teaching school as a pedagogical laboratory
South African Journal of Childhood Education
| Field | Value | |
| Title | A Finnish model of teacher education informs a South African one: A teaching school as a pedagogical laboratory | |
| Creator | Loukomies, Anni Petersen, Nadine Lavonen, Jari | |
| Description | In this study, we examined student teachers’ learning during their teaching placement period in Finland and South Africa. The setting of the inquiry in both countries was a ‘teaching’ school, affiliated to a university teacher education programme. The teaching school is also referred to as an educational innovation that was transferred from the Finnish context to the South African context. Data were collected through an interview protocol. The findings show that the students, like many of their counterparts in different parts of the world, focused on teaching tools and methods as well as classroom management as a gateway to their teaching career. The extended teaching placement period at both the university teaching schools was expected to yield some findings about the intersection of teaching practice and its supporting theories because of the close collaboration of the schools and the universities. Some of the findings satisfied this expectation while other parts did not, confirming that initial teacher education may be regarded as a platform for learning to be teachers, but it has its own limits even in a pedagogical ‘laboratory’. The transfer of the educational innovation was regarded as successful. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2018-06-13 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajce.v8i1.593 | |
| Source | South African Journal of Childhood Education; Vol 8, No 1 (2018); 11 pages 2223-7682 2223-7674 | |
| Language | eng | |
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https://sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/593/706
https://sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/593/705
https://sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/593/707
https://sajce.co.za/index.php/sajce/article/view/593/699
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