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Rethinking The Place Of The Practicum In Teacher Education., Ralph Blunden
Rethinking The Place Of The Practicum In Teacher Education., Ralph Blunden
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
This paper draws on the author’s 25 years of experience in teacher education and on a number of course evaluation questionnaires administered over the last three years to students in the one-year full time Graduate Diploma of Vocational Education and Training (and its predecessors) at the University of Melbourne. It is argued that the bifurcation between practice and theory (and theory and practice), between teaching and training experience and thinking about such experience within theoretical frameworks is a division that should be sequentially organised rather than concurrent as in most initial teacher education programs. It is claimed that data from …