Resolving feelings of professional inadequacy : Student teachers’coping with distressful situations

• Student teachers face various difficult situations during their teacher education. The aim of this studywas to examine how student teachers perceive coping with distressful situations during their teachertraining. Focus groups and individual interviews were conducted. The results show that student teachersfeel professionally inadequate, characterized by powerlessness, limited means of action and uncertainty.In resolving professional inadequacy, they use concepts connected to the social process of becomingteachers: modifying professional ideals, dependence on future colleagues and continuing to buildexperience. These concepts lead to acceptance and postponing strategies for learning from distressfulsituations.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Student teacher

Teacher education

Professional inadequacy

Teacher identity

Coping

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