Document Type
Focus Area Four
Abstract
At the end of his five-year study of the education of educators John I. Goodlad (1990a) concludes that:
Few of the future teachers in our sample would begin their important work with a comprehensive grasp of the role of schools, with the ability to transcend subject matter and make it readily accessible to large numbers of their students, with the range and depth of instructional knowledge and skills requisite to promoting some significant learning in all children and youths and with the traits and abilities essential to working with colleagues on school renewal. (p. 190)
These people will be college graduates and, in that respect, successful students, but they will not have successfully negotiated the transition between being a student and being a teacher. To accomplish this task described in Goodlad's Postulate Nine from Teachers for Our Nation's Schools, several changes in teacher education are necessary. Postulate Nine states: "Programs for the education of educators must be characterized by a socialization process through which candidates transcend their self-oriented student preoccupations to become more other-oriented in identifying with a culture of teaching" (1990b, p. 59).
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
3
Issue
1
First Page
161
Last Page
166
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1992 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Murphy, Bonnie
(1992)
"... To the Other Side of the Desk: The Socialization of Beginning Teachers,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 3:
No.
1, Article 36.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol3/iss1/36
