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ERIC Number: EJ515439
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1047-6210
Ethnography of Biography: Learning to Live Like a Teacher.
Dick, Andreas
Teaching Education, v5 n2 p11-21 Spr-Sum 1993
Paper explores the idea of biography writing as a medium for teacher development and reflection, focusing on the ethnographic biography to provide student teachers with context in preservice education and describing a one-semester course in Switzerland in which student teachers were paired with experienced teachers to complete ethnographic biographies. (SM)
Descriptors: Biographies, Context Effect, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Participant Observation, Preservice Teacher Education, Research Methodology, Secondary Education, Student Teachers, Teacher Improvement, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Ethnographic Evaluation; Switzerland