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The present study investigates the nature of Iranian student teachers’ reflections and their professional development in the context of teacher education practicums.
The participants were student teachers (N = 41) enrolled in teacher education colleges at Farhangian University in Tehran, Iran.
A total of 620 reflective writing excerpts were coded using deductive content analysis across three cohorts in three different practicums during a two-year period.
The results show that routine levels of reflection significantly decreased across the three practicums, while technical levels of reflection significantly increased.
The higher levels of reflection, namely dialogic and transformative levels, were rarely found in student teachers’ reflective writings across the practicums.
This study discusses the need both to develop appropriate methods to guide student teachers in centralized contexts such as Iran and to investigate further aspects that enhance or hinder progress in the quality of reflection in teacher education.
Published: 2019
Updated: Jan. 12, 2020
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In this article, the authors examined the various purposes that Finnish student teachers of different subjects have in teaching. The findings revealed that four purpose profiles were identified among participants: Purposeful, Dabblers, Dreamers, and Disengaged.The majority of participants can be profiled as dabblers. The authors found that the student teachers of religious education most often demonstrated a purposeful profile, while student teachers of mathematics and science were mostly profiled as disengaged. The authors conclude that the moral nature of teaching calls for purposeful teachers for schools worldwide.
Published: 2016
Updated: Nov. 12, 2017