Triadic Mentoring in Early Childhood Education: The Role of Relational Agency

• In Event: 21.061 - MTCC Roundtable Session Five
  In Roundtable Session: 21.061-9 - Mentoring in Teacher Education: Preservice

Abstract

Current orientation to field experience in teacher education have shifted the view of student teachers' learning as a solo activity , to a view that stresses the importance of engaging various forms of mentoring to mediate student teacher learning in practice. This study examined the impact of the design of a triadic mentoring model of university-school collaboration on student teachers' learning to teach in the context of early childhood education. Findings suggest that the distinctive ways in which relational agency developed in each of the triads examined constituted a major factor influencing the quality of student teachers' learning. We discuss this finding and elaborate on a conceptual framework that emerges from the study.

Authors

• Aya Ben-Harush, The MOFET Institute, Ruppin Academic Center, The David Yellin Academic College of Education

• Lily Orland-Barak, University of Haifa