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Spalding, Elizabeth; Wang, Jian; Lin, Emily; Butcher, John – New Educator, 2009
Understanding the interplay among experience, beliefs, and contexts of teaching in preservice and inservice teachers' learning to teach is crucial to improving teacher quality for diverse populations. This study examined the impact of a summer camp English teaching experience in China on the ideas and practice of two White, middle-class female…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Preservice Teachers
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Wang, Jian; Odell, Sandra J. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
Teacher educators have suggested that mentoring has the potential to help novices learn to teach in reform-minded ways. This suggestion implies a change in the nature of mentor-novice relationships as conceptualized in the existing literature and an understanding of the complexities of mentoring relationships. Based on critical constructivist and…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Constructivism (Learning), Mentors, Learning Processes