Field experiences during teacher preparation are fundamental to helping teacher candidates understand their future roles and responsibilities and can effectively prepare them to meet diverse student needs across a variety of contexts. This multiple case study examined the perspectives of three special education dual certification teacher…

Teacher education programs help preservice teachers develop their identities through various curricular practices, including field experiences. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted teacher education programs as they were pressed to coordinate virtual field experiences. This intrinsic case study explored how virtual field experiences coupled with…

This qualitative instrumental case study examines the practices, curriculum, and experiences of teacher educators and White preservice teachers at one credential program in NorCal through the frameworks of White Racial Identity Development and Critical Pedagogy. This study examined five teaching constructs: policy, pedagogy, curriculum, discourse,…

Over the past 10?years an increasing number of articles have been published in leading science education journals that report on research about teacher identity and describe interventions that support teacher identity development. My purpose in this review paper is to examine how the construct of science teacher identity has been conceptualised…

A holistic education linked to creativity, innovation, critical thinking and local/global citizenship is increasingly marginalized in the United States as schools continue to struggle with the impact of high-stakes testing regimes. In particular, urban youths' access to an education that furthers their ability to choose lives they have reason to…

The Outward Bound concept was developed in Germany and Great Britain with the saving of human life as the ultimate goal. Courses are designed to help students discover their true physical and mental limits through development of skills including emergency medical aid, firefighting, search and rescue, mountaineering, and sailing. Five Outward Bound…

Following more than 2 years of study and research, the faculty of the College of Education developed a plan whereby the student experience is focused on three major elements: a) the Individualized Learning System, b) the Field Experience, and c) the Personal Development Experience. These three elements are integrated to constitute a total learning…

Involvement of pre-student teachers in a field-based teaching experience organized by the University of Texas at Arlington produced personal and professional growth in the affective domain in over half of the participants. Those education majors who elected to join the program were required to assume the role of teacher aides in a public school…

The Field Studies Program is an undergraduate, interdisciplinary experience in field-related education at the University of California - Berkeley begun in 1971. Self-study has generated a model of field-related education based on doing, thinking, and communicating that leads toward increased competency and consciousness. (Author/LBH)

The goal of the study was to evaluate the contribution of field education to the competence of the parish minister. Questionnaires were sent to a sample of 471 1964 graduates of 86 Protestant theological seminaries asking for information about their present position, their experience in field education while in seminary, and their judgment of its…

The content and process of teacher education for urban areas must familiarize teachers with urban issues and concerns. Elements of this training should include the following: (1) liberal arts; (2) personal and professional development; (3) philosophical foundations; (4) organizational studies; (5) field experiences; and (6) curriculum and…

This paper examines the subject of student teaching from four different angles. The first, why student teaching is popular and successful, points out five positive benefits in this method of learning: (1) It offers a good opportunity for problem solving in real classroom situations; (2) Student teaching produces results that are emotionally…