dc.contributor.author | Ussher, William (Bill) Grant | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-05-30T22:26:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-05-30T22:26:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ussher, B. (2010). Involving a village: student teachers’ sense of belonging in their school-based placement. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 38(2), 103-116. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10289/3906 | |
dc.description.abstract | Educating a student on teaching placement involves a 'village', just as it takes a whole 'village' to raise a child. Creating a 'village' around each student teacher gives them greater agency, a sense of belonging and being valued as a member of that professional 'village'. Participating students, teachers and lecturers share their perceptions of experiences in the one-day school-based placement that student teachers are required to undertake in a University of Waikato distance programme. Opportunities, relationships and a sense of inclusion are identified as influencing characteristics, “the all important human infrastructure that provides the opportunity for learners to succeed” (Campbell-Gibson, 1997, p. 8) rather than any modern technologies. Findings indicate that where the school acted as the 'village of learning', the perceived suitability of the placement as a site for learning teaching was conceptualised through a developed sense of belonging, accomplishment and inclusion. It is argued that greater effort should be made by initial teacher education providers to locate such 'villages' for student teacher placements. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_NZ |
dc.subject | belonging | en |
dc.subject | distance learning | en |
dc.subject | practicum | en |
dc.subject | primary school | en |
dc.subject | teacher education | en |
dc.title | Involving a village: student teachers’ sense of belonging in their school-based placement | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/13598661003677614 | en |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education | en_NZ |
pubs.begin-page | 103 | en_NZ |
pubs.elements-id | 34933 | |
pubs.end-page | 116 | en_NZ |
pubs.issue | 2 | en_NZ |
pubs.volume | 38 | en_NZ |