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Encounters with mentor teachers: first-year students’ experiences on teaching practice
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Teaching 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.
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“Fourthly, it is evident that mentors should be better prepared for their mentoring roles, as the results of our findings suggest that this is not the case, and this could be done through greater collaboration between schools and university lecturers (Du Plessis, 2013; Moosa and Rembach, 2020), training for mentors about their role and its importance (Baartman, 2016;Hugo, 2018) and short courses”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Moosa, M., & Rembach, L.
- Affiliations
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- Corresponding author
- Moosa, Moeniera
- ORCID
- Moosa, Moeniera
- Venue
- Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2020-10-19
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 536-555
- ISSN
- 1361-1267 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-9745
- OpenAlex
- W3111934302
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 1.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Mentoring & Tutoring Partnership in Learning (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Assessments
- Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Professional Development and Motivation
- Keywords
- cooperating teachers, teaching practice, pre-service teachers, mentoring, first-year students, initial teacher education, teacher professional development, student support, South Africa
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