Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lawson, Hal A.

Titel

Beyond the New Conception of Teacher Induction

Ist Teil von

• Journal of teacher education, 1992-05, Vol.43 (3), p.163-172

Ort / Verlag

Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

1992

Quelle

ERIC

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• During the past 20 years the term induction was given new meaning in education, replacing the traditional conception. Today, induction refers to preplanned, structured, and short term assistance programs offered in schools for beginning teachers. This new conception owes its popularity to three convergent influences: educational research, political intrusions, and educators' reform proposals. Benefits of this new conception include the attention it gives to beginning teachers. Its problems include (a) trying to do too much, (b) contriving collegiality, (c) fostering competition among teachers, (d) neglecting teachers' needs, (e) increasing custodial orientations among teachers, and (e) failing to accommodate personal-developmental needs of teachers. Teaching is an intellectual, moral, and political endeavor, yet the new conception ignores this. Alternative conceptions of induction should begin with these unique qualities of teaching and should focus on developing teachers' identities and their adaptive as well as technical competence.