In-service Initial Teacher Education in the Learning and Skills Sector in England: Integrating Course and Workplace Learning |
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Authors: | Bronwen Maxwell |
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Institution: | (1) Centre for Education and Inclusion Research, Sheffield Hallam University, Unit 7 Science Park, Howard Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK |
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Abstract: | The aim of the paper is to advance understanding of in-service learning and skills sector trainee teachers’ learning and propose
ways of improving their learning. A conceptual framework is developed by extending Billett’s (International Journal of Educational
Research 47:232–240, 2008) conceptualisation of workplace learning, as a relationally interdependent process between the opportunities workplaces afford
for activities and interactions and how individuals engage with these, to a third base of participation, the affordances of
the initial teacher education course. Hager and Hodkinson’s (British Educational Research Journal 35:619–638, 2009) metaphor of ‘learning as becoming’ is used to conceptualise the ways trainees reconstruct learning in a continuous transactional
process of boundary crossing between course and workplace. The findings of six longitudinal case studies of trainees’ development,
and evidence from other studies, illustrate the complex interrelationships between LSS workplace affordances, course affordances
and trainee characteristics and the ways in which trainees reconstruct learning in each setting. The experience of teaching
and interacting with learners, interactions with colleagues, and access to workplace resources and training are important
workplace affordances for learning. However, some trainees have limited access to these affordances. Teaching observations,
course activities and experiences as a learner are significant course affordances. Trainees’ beliefs, prior experiences and
dispositions vary and significantly influence their engagement with course and workplace affordances. It is proposed that
better integration of course and workplace learning through guided participation in an intentional workplace curriculum and
attention to the ways trainees choose to engage with this, together with the use of practical theorising has the potential
to improve trainee learning. |
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