Through Preservice Teachers' Eyes

Exploring Field Experience through Narrative and Inquiry

J. Gary Knowles & Ardra L. Cole with Colleen S. Presswood

Through Preservice Teachers’ Eyes offers a curriculum and a pedagogy for preservice teacher education field experience and is based on and heavily influenced by preservice teachers’ perspectives and experiences. It is written with a developmental perspective on the processes of learning to teach, and becoming a teacher, and celebrates a focus on self-directed learning, facilitation of ongoing professional development, and inquiry. This is a book that encourages preservice teachers to take charge of their own professional development through reflexive inquiry.