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Article: How do secondary teachers benefit from PDS networks? Lessons from a social studies and global education learning community. (Professional Development School)
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- The Clearing House
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Although educators in schools and universities have long histories of working together, rarely have teachers viewed such connections as truly collaborative. Neither have school/university arrangements regarding field experiences and student teaching been known to close the gap between the content of education courses on campus and the realities of teachers' own theories and practice. Many teachers have perceived professors as pushing their own agendas, ideas, or research without attention to the expertise, interests, or concerns of classroom teachers (Dove, Norris, and Shinew 1997; Kagan 1993).
Such was the climate of relationships between secondary social studies ...