| Abstract: | Student teachers studying by distance or external mode occupy a marginal and potentially isolated position with respect to the university. When undertaking a practicum experience, they individually enter a space within their placement school in which they may once more be presented with the challenge of operating from the margins. Using the Web and a 'bulletin board' facility, external Graduate Diploma in Education students were provided with the opportunity to 'chat' on-line during their recent practicum experience. The 'visible voices' of those students who participated in this Web link provide an interesting background to considerations of the ongoing negotiation within these marginal spaces by student teachers with respect to their emerging teaching identities. The extent to which the Web can provide students with a new notion of a learning community or a site for a critical or resistant dialogue and implications for broader issues concerning student 'voice' and subjectivities are considered within this article. |
