Focusing on the critical role of student teaching in teacher preparation, this book offers a comprehensive overview of its historical development, theoretical frameworks, and current practices. It reviews relevant research literature and provides practical guidelines for reform, emphasizing evidence-based approaches to enhance the effectiveness of student teaching experiences.
This book assembles what political scientists, sociologists, and communication analysts have learned in almost six decades of research on political socialization (the lifelong process by which we acquire political beliefs). It also explores how people develop political values, attitudes, identities, and behavioral dispositions. Of particular interest to Philo C. Wasburn and Tawnya J. Adkins Covert is the process by which people are made into active citizens who are politically interested, informed, partisan, tolerant, and engaged. Finally, Wasburn and Adkins Covert identify some suggestions for institutional change that would lead to “better” citizenship.