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ERIC Number: EJ618967
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0742-051X
"Love, Love, and More Love for Children": Exploring Preservice Teachers' Understandings of Caring.
Goldstein, Lisa S.; Lake, Vickie E.
Teaching and Teacher Education, v16 n8 p861-72 Nov 2000
Investigated the understandings of the relationship between caring and teaching brought by elementary student teachers to their first field placements. Data from electronic dialog journals indicated that student teachers believed caring to be an important part of their teaching lives. They had three commonly held understandings of caring: essentialism, oversimplification, and idealism. (SM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Journals, Student Teacher Attitudes, Student Teachers, Student Teaching
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Caring; Essentialism; Idealism