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Hesitantly into the arena: An account of trainee teachers’ and sixth form students’ preliminary attempts to enter into dialogue through email

McGuinn, Nicholas; Naylor, Amanda

Authors

Nicholas McGuinn

Amanda Naylor



Abstract

Teacher training is increasingly accountable to central government. Trainees - the word itself is significant - are expected to demonstrate competence in a wide range of professional standards if they are to achieve qualified teacher status. Training partnership schools, understandably, impose their own conditions for entry into their 'communities of practice'. In these circumstances, trainees - and their trainers - have increasingly fewer opportunities for risk taking or for exploring new configurations of the teacher pupil relationship. This paper describes an attempt to exploit the potential of email as a means of granting access to a 'pedagogical arena' in which trainees and students might attempt to negotiate their own ways of working together. It concludes by suggesting that both groups found this a challenging task and by noting that the trainers involved decided that, if the project were to run again, a certain amount of autonomy would need to be sacrificed to direction.

Citation

McGuinn, N., & Naylor, A. (2009). Hesitantly into the arena: An account of trainee teachers’ and sixth form students’ preliminary attempts to enter into dialogue through email. English in Education, 43(3), 211-225. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-8845.2009.01048.x

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 30, 2009
Online Publication Date Feb 27, 2018
Publication Date 2009-09
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal ENGLISH IN EDUCATION
Print ISSN 0425-0494
Electronic ISSN 1754-8845
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 43
Issue 3
Pages 211-225
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-8845.2009.01048.x
Keywords Linguistics and Language; Literature and Literary Theory; Education; Language and Linguistics
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/400086