Learning to Teach English and the Language Arts: A Vygotskian Perspective on Beginning Teachers' Pedagogical Concept Development

by Peter Smagorinsky

Book Overview

Drawing together Smagorinsky's extensive research over a 20-year period, Learning to Teach English and the Language Artsexplores how beginning teachers' pedagogical concepts are shaped by a variety of influences. Challenging popular thinking about the binary roles of teacher education programs and school-based experiences in the process of learning to teach, Smagorinsky illustrates, through case studies in the disciplines of English and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350142891
• ISBN13: 9781350142893
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"