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Article: Complex interactions in student teaching: lost opportunities for learning.(Open Articles)(Report)
- Article from:
- Journal of Teacher Education
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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The power of student teaching is legend. Teachers often proclaim it as the most valuable aspect of their preservice programs, yet ironically, teacher educators often decry it as problematic and cooperating teachers lament that student teachers are not prepared for the realities of schools and classrooms (Borko & Mayfield, 1995; Darling-Hammond, Pacheco, Michelli, LePage, & Hammemess, 2005; Zeichner & Gore, 1990). Discrepant views of the student teaching experience such as these led to Feiman-Nemser and Buchmann's (1985) notion of the two-worlds pitfall--the clash between goals and visions of learning to teach developed at the university and in the field. In some ways, ...