Students’ Perceptions of the Theory/Practice Nexus in Teacher Education

Rethinking Professional Experience Through a Learning Community Model: Toward a Culture Change

“…In the traditional approaches, professional experience aims to provide a bridge between theory and practice and pre-service teachers are required to master technical skills of teaching and develop skills in instruction (Le Cornu and Ewing, 2008). However, research has shown that the traditional approaches to professional experience generally provide insufficient integration of theory and practice and have been criticized for resulting in a lack of classroom readiness in early career teachers (Zeichner, 1990;Brady et al, 1998;Korthagen and Kessels, 1999;Allen, 2009;Grudnoff, 2011;Allen and Wright, 2014;Craven et al, 2014).…”