Exploring the meaning of being a cooperating teacher

Within current concerns for improvement in teacher education programs is the inadequacy of research concerned with questions of meaning, such as what it means to be a cooperating teacher. Interpretive research investigates our way of experiencing the world and addresses questions of being. A phenomenological research approach allows the particular, the unique to be revealed that is frequently overlooked within research that seeks generalizable knowledge. The significance of this study for teacher education rests in bringing to the educational discourse another perspective on teacher preparation toward informed and appropriate action through raised awareness of the nature of the lived experienced of the cooperating teacher.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Slocum, Annabelle Dryden

• Philosophy
• Education, Curriculum and Instruction

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1989 Slocum, Annabelle Dryden

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI8916306
(UMI)AAI8916306

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/23539