The Challenge of Teaching : Through the Eyes of Pre-service Teachers /

This book presents thirty-one accounts by final-year pre-service teachers, providing guidance and insights for less advanced teacher education students, and illustrating the use of life history and narrative stories as methods for pre-service teachers to explore educational issues in classroom pract...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Geng, Gretchen; Smith, Pamela; Black, Paul
Published: Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,
Publisher Address: Singapore :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2571-6
Summary: This book presents thirty-one accounts by final-year pre-service teachers, providing guidance and insights for less advanced teacher education students, and illustrating the use of life history and narrative stories as methods for pre-service teachers to explore educational issues in classroom practice. This life-history approach identifies those political, economic, and social forces that have impinged on the individual at different points in their life and contributed to the process of changing their identities. These stories are not written by established specialists in the areas they dea
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (IX, 245 pages)
ISBN: 9789811025716
Index Number: LB1024
CLC: G451.2
Contents: Part I Background to the Book -- 1 Listen to the Voice of Pre-service Teachers: Introduction to the book -- 2 Issues in the Teaching Practicum -- 3 The Importance of 'SELF' -- 4 Teachers as Reflective Practitioners -- Part II Literacy and Language -- 5 The Tricky Word Wall: Motivating young students' desire to succeed -- 6 Benefits of Integrated Learning Support for Early Childhood Children when Learning Sight Words -- 7 Impact of Literacy Sessions on the Reading Abilities of Indigenous Students -- 8 Choose to Read -- 9 Languages other than English being taught in Primary Schools: The Educat