Professional Socialization: The Effects of a College Course Upon Role‐conceptions of Students in Teacher Training

Early Changes in Teacher Attitude

“…A fairly consistent finding has been that students in teacher education programmes tend to become more 'progressive' in attitude during their college or university courses, but that this change is reversed once regular school teaching is experienced (Butcher, 1965;Mclntyre and Morrison, 1967;Gibson, 1972). Shipman (1966Shipman ( , 1967 has reported similar findings, but he suggests that the changes that occur during training are really only superficial.…”

Teacher Quality

“…With regard to the role of a primary school teacher, James and Choppin found their sixth formers to perceive this to be more akin to that of a social worker with qualities emphasised such as a welcoming of parental interest, the encouragement of independence and creativity in pupils and the affording of extra attention to less able children. This was substantiated in part by Gibson's (1971) study of the changes in role conceptions of students in teacher training. Gibson noted that the view that teachers should encourage parental involvement hardened over the course of teacher training.…”