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How Front-End Loading Contributes to Creating and Sustaining the Theory-Practice Gap in Higher Education Programs
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Allen, Jeanne Maree – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2011
In this paper, I show how Mead's theory of emergence can prove explanatory in how the theory-practice gap is co-created and sustained in "front-end loading" university programs. Taking teacher education as an exemplar, I argue that trainee teachers encounter different and oft-times conflicting environmental, social and cultural conditions in the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Focus Groups, Theory Practice Relationship