Student Teaching Handbook as Boundary Crosser

• In Event: Around the World: Decreasing Boundaries of the Field Experience

Abstract

Student teaching handbooks are artifacts that are mediated within the student teaching partnership of universities and schools. They carry information and cross university-school boundaries of cultural and social activity systems. This paper presents how a student teaching handbook, used by one of the teacher education institutions in southern Philippines, affords its boundary crossing function. It asked how the student teaching handbook accounts for its communicative and coordinative function; and how university supervisors, school mentors and teacher candidates perceive how their interactions were mediated by it. These questions were framed and analyzed within the concept of boundary crossing, using the Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT). Findings provide reference to the student teaching handbook’s redesign effort toward a collaborative university-school partnership.

Author

• Mariche Llanto, The University of Kansas