The purpose of this study is to describe the student teaching internship in context, with a special focus on the cooperating teacher. Three sentizing concepts were used to help provide a framework and focus for the study: documenting the student teaching internship in practice, focusing on the roles and relationships of the participants within the student teaching triad with special consideration given to the cooperating teacher's roles and relationships, and also developing a research design that explored other understandings and provided opportunities to gather information from unexpected, unplanned occurrences. / Three types of qualitative data collection were used throughout the study: non-participant observations, formal and informal interviews, and document collection (Jacobs, 1987). Data collection and data analysis were concurrent, identifying preliminary categories through analytic induction and constant comparison techniques (Goetz & LeCompte, 1984). After the preliminary data collection, a domain analysis was conducted to insure systematic treatment of the data in manageable units for final analysis (Spradley, 1980). / During data analysis, three major categories emerged organizing the roles and relationships of the cooperating teacher during the internship period: the professional role, the supervisory role, and the social role. Across these organizing domains, two recurring cultural themes were identified which defined the actual curricular practices of the setting: the modification of the formal physical education program and the conflicts, interactions, and negotiations of the major participants. / The findings of this study suggest that current teacher education programs are inconsistent with the context and culture of the real teaching world. Several recommendations for teacher education programs, student teaching, and college supervision were provided along with suggestions for future research in teacher education-physical education. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-10, Section: A, page: 3472. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1992.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76760 |
| Contributors | Grooms, Vickie L., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 226 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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