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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Manderstedt, Lena
• Anderström, Helena
• Sädbom, Rebecka Florin
• Bäcklund, Johan

Titel

Consensus and discrepancies on quality: Mentor and student teacher statements on work placement mentoring

Ist Teil von

• Teaching and teacher education, 2022-08, Vol.116, p.103762, Article 103762

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Although work placement mentoring has been examined extensively in research, there are no studies drawing on critical discourse analysis combined with discourse theory, aiming to examine the discursive construction of quality aspects. Seven mentor pairs in Swedish teacher training schools were interviewed individually during student work placement. Focus group interviews were conducted with eleven student teachers. The results reveal a consensus on a general level. The significant discrepancies are intertwined to different subject positions among student teachers and mentors, thus linked to different role expectations. A likely explanation can be found in the differences between professional and academic knowledge traditions. •Mentors and student teachers express a broad consensus about quality in mentoring.•There is broad consensus within each group, but less agreement between the groups.•The most marked contrasts concern the subject positions each group undertake, linked to different role expectations .•There is a potential risk for tensions or misunderstandings related to these different role expectations.•The results indicate different understandings of quality in mentoring between the mentors and the universities.