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Personal Examples of Self-Study as a Means of Developing and Enacting a Pedagogy of Supervision

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A common finding in the research on teacher education is that teacher candidates place a high value on their student teaching experiences. Most regard their clinical experiences as an influential—if not the single most influential—factor in their professional learning and development as pre-service teachers (Knowles & Cole, 1996; Smith & Lev-Ari, 2005; Wilson, Floden, & Ferrini-Mundy, 2001).

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Ritter, J.K. (2012). Personal Examples of Self-Study as a Means of Developing and Enacting a Pedagogy of Supervision. In: Supervising Student Teachers. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-095-8_10

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