Talk about field placement within campus coursework: Connecting theory and practice in teacher education

IS Jenset, K Hammerness, K Klette - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019Taylor & Francis
Worldwide, scholars and policymakers have called for teacher education to link fieldwork
and coursework. This article examines teacher candidates' opportunities to talk about field
placement within their campus coursework as one way of doing so. It reports on survey data
(n= 270) and observation data (n= 52 hours) from 3 teacher-education programs in Norway,
Finland, and California in the USA. Findings suggest that candidates have extensive
opportunities to talk about field placement. However, the characteristics of the talk, the …
Abstract
Worldwide, scholars and policymakers have called for teacher education to link fieldwork and coursework. This article examines teacher candidates’ opportunities to talk about field placement within their campus coursework as one way of doing so. It reports on survey data (n = 270) and observation data (n = 52 hours) from 3 teacher-education programs in Norway, Finland, and California in the USA. Findings suggest that candidates have extensive opportunities to talk about field placement. However, the characteristics of the talk, the degree of specificity and detail provided, and the level of complexity and connectedness to theory vary extensively. The article argues that, to be generative for professional learning, talk about field placement needs to be systematically scaffolded within a pedagogy of teacher education.
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