A Study of Perspectives of Educators Across Clinical and Scholarly/scientific Work Settings

This study partially investigated a problem in teacher education of (1) the 20 to 50-year time lag in the implementation of research findings in the field, (2) the qualified survival of innovation projects in applied settings, and (3) the typical dissatisfaction of teachers with their training. Terming the problem a "communication gap" and basing the study on theory from Freidson (1970) and Mead (1938), hypotheses were formulated which predicted that individuals who worked in scholarly/scientific work settings would use a "truth-seeking" perspective as a mode of conceiving classroom teaching/learning situations while individuals who worked in clinical work settings would use a "firing-line" perspective to conceptualize the same events.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Pickle, Judy Fay

• Education, Teacher Training

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8108628

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/66006