Abstract

GUEVARA, Jennifer. Disputes in defining the teaching craft in pre-service field experiences. A case study on early childhood education. Pág. Educ. [online]. 2017, vol.10, n.2, pp.1-20. ISSN 1688-7468.  https://doi.org/10.22235/pe.v10i2.1418.

In pre-service teacher education, field experiences have been conceived as training devices. This article examines field experiences as spaces of struggle over the definition of the teaching craft inside a community of practice that constitutes both the context and the content of the training process. From a qualitative ethnographic inquiry, it shows the struggle to banish three "enemies" of the teaching craft at early childhood education: the infantilization, schoolification and mechanization. This article concludes that the way in which the battle is set reproduces the very thing it seeks to banish: stereotypes.

Keywords : early childhood education; field experiences; supervisors; teaching craft; community of practice.

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