eprintid: 10020454
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Li, Chung.
title: From students to teachers : a longitudinal study of occupational socialisation of pre-service physical education teachers in Hong Kong
ispublished: unpub
divisions: B14
note: Thesis: (PhD) University of London Institute of Education, 2004.
abstract: This study is concerned with a qualitative inquiry into how twenty pre-service
physical education teachers, who were taking the full-time two-year teacher education
programme, became occupationally socialised. The research was pursued along the
theoretical lines derived from the interpretive approach. Data were collected through
semi-structured interviews, student records in reflective journals and critical incident
analysis over four sequential data collection phases. For analysis, pre-service teachers
were categorised into five broad groups in accordance with their entry characteristics.
Emergent and recurrent themes in terms of what is classified as teacher perspectives were
traced: these included pre-training dispositions, orientations, professional conceptions,
socialising strategies and sense of agency. The students were found to possess a spectrum
of personality types and attitudinal dispositions including defining orientations toward
sports coaching, apprehensiveness, teaching affinity, pragmatic considerations, and an
easy going style with cognitive and behavioural tendencies ranging from custodial to
progressive and from dominant utilitarian to non-dominant liberal respectively.
Their professional conceptions of promoting learning for the pupils, bringing fun
through games, controlling, maintaining discipline and seeing physical education as
cathartic were revealed and submitted to in-depth analysis. The socialising strategies
adopted for resolving the dissonance they experienced during the learning-to-teach
process included improving their teaching skills, social adaptation and self-defensive
mechanisms. While they all anticipated practical experiences to some extent, they
attended to the pedagogical contents of the teacher education programme in diverse ways.
Their perceptions were transformed to various degrees by the impact of socialising agents
including their coaches, tutors, school supporting teachers, and the programme of
activities and experiences engendered by the teacher education programme as an organic
whole.
The findings of the research should provide a better understanding of the
development of pre-service physical education teachers in Hong Kong especially in
relation to their anticipatory and professional socialisation. The results of the study are
critically considered for their potential impact. Accordingly, clear implications are drawn
to facilitate the socialisation processes of the pre-service PE teachers through the physical
education teacher-training programme.
date: 2004
date_type: completed
oa_status: green
thesis_class: doctoral_open
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
pages: 345
institution: Institute of Education, University of London
thesis_type: Doctoral
citation:        Li, Chung.;      (2004)    From students to teachers : a longitudinal study of occupational socialisation of pre-service physical education teachers in Hong Kong.                   Doctoral thesis , Institute of Education, University of London.     Green open access   
 
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