Encounters with mentor teachers: first-year students’ experiences on teaching practice.

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dc.article.start-page536en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMoosa, M.
dc.contributor.authorRembach, L.
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-20T08:50:10Z
dc.date.available2022-05-20T08:50:10Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractTeaching practice is a compulsory, legislated component of initial teacher education programmes in South Africa. During this experience, preservice teachers engage with their mentor teachers. By exploring first-year students’ experiences with their mentor teachers during their first teaching practice, we argue that mentorship is a vital component of teaching practice in order for first-year students to grow and develop their teaching skills and their professional development. The theoretical framework chosen underpins the mentorship processes based on Hagger and Macintyre’s work, this enabled a multi-dimensional analysis and account of mentorship. Four hundred and twelve first-year students participated in this study and the data were analysed by means of an open coding method. The results were that 376 (91%) of participants reported that they felt unsupported and powerless during teaching practice, because of negative engagements and experiences with mentor teachers. These findings have implications for the preparation of preservice teachers in other contexts too.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMS2022en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMoeniera Moosa & Lauren Rembach (2020) Encounters with mentor teachers: first-year students’ experiences on teaching practice. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 28:5, 536-555en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/32913
dc.journal.issue5en_ZA
dc.journal.linkhttps://doi.org/10.1080/13611267.2020.1859326en_ZA
dc.journal.titleMentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learningen_ZA
dc.journal.volume28:en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.rights© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Groupen_ZA
dc.schoolWits School of Educationen_ZA
dc.titleEncounters with mentor teachers: first-year students’ experiences on teaching practice.en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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