Vitenskapelig sammendrag
Nordic countries share a common concern: newly qualified teachers needsupport. The transition to work life is a shock for many newly qualifiedteachers as their images about teaching can differ from the reality that theyface. In the proposed research project, we explore how mentoring can enrichimages of teaching in a way that would ensure that teachers are betterprepared for practice. This is all significant from the viewpoint of schooldevelopment, as well as for the role that teachers play in this development.The proposed research project addresses mentoring through images aboutteaching. The project views this phenomenon from multiple perspectives:those teachers who are mentored, those who mentor teachers, and those atthe administrative and local level who are responsible for mentoring.The project develops Nordic research cooperation and contributes tonational, Nordic, and international discussion regarding the production ofnovel knowledge about images related to teaching in mentoring processes.Such knowledge about teachers' work as cultural, political, and personalpractice is important for teacher education. Images about teaching aremediated in pre-service and in-service teacher education. Teacher educatorsmust be aware of that and recognise the images they are mediating, as wellas the images they meet when communicating with the student teachers.Furthermore, the role of images in defining the prerequisites of teachers'work must be recognised. Inevitably, teachers work in the middle of personal,professional, social, political, and cultural images concerning teaching.
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Metode
The research group will have rich data from interviews and video-recorded mentoring sessions towritten reflections and official educational documents.