The study that provides the context for this article developed from a major overhaul of the practicum in an undergraduate initial teacher education degree in which practicum roles and relationships were re-envisaged. The aim was to reinvigorate university-school practicum relationships through the collaborative development of a practicum where…

The decentralization policy of Tomorrow's Schools entrusted individual schools with their own operational funds, and responsibility for property and personnel decisions and for staff development. As a result, the role of the primary principal became wider, calling on new knowledge and skills. Principals were also given a greater workload and a…

A study examined (1) how teachers in England. Australia, New Zealand, and the United States think others expect them to behave and (2) the amount of divergence existing between these expectations and the teacher's own attitudes. A teacher-questionnaire listed 10 teacher activities (derived from an interview phase of the study) representing…