What is it about?
This article reviews five research articles that investigate ways of linking learning from experience during the practicum (student teaching) to other course-based components of teacher education programs in Canadian universities.
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Why is it important?
Often times learning in practicum can be challenging, especially when there is not a good link between the schools where student teaching occurs and the universities where most of the seminars and courses of teacher education occur.
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I enjoyed reacting to these research papers by way of using Sting's song to speak to some of the challenges that occur in practicum.
Allan MacKinnon
Simon Fraser University
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This page is a summary of: Practicum and Teacher Education: Wrapped Around Your Finger, Studying Teacher Education, May 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17425964.2017.1342361.
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