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ERIC Number: EJ679237
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0141-1926
Rites of Passage in Initial Teacher Training: Ritual, Performance, Ordeal, and Numeracy Skills Test.
McNamara, Olwen; Roberts, Lorna; Basit, Tehmina N.; Brown, Tony
British Educational Research Journal, v28 n6 p863 78 Dec 2002
Explains transition was identified by early 20th century anthropologists as the liminal stage of a rite of passage. Identifies transition, applying a contemporary anthropological lens to initial teacher training, not as a linear progression but as a complex process of extended and ambiguous in betweenness that involves play, performance, and ordeal. (BT)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Rites of Passage; Twentieth Century; United Kingdom
Note: The British Educational Research Journal is a refereed journal.