Brings together the research on teachers' expertise and beginning teachers' learning. This book reports a research project on helping student teachers to gain access to experienced teachers' expertis. It explores how school-based initial teacher education can be improved if it is professionally planned in an informed and well thought-out way.
Hazel Hagger is Lecturer in Educational Studies and PGCE Course Director at the University of Oxford. She has written extensively on teachers' learning and development, and on mentoring in education.
Donald McIntyre is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and has been engaged in research into teaching and teacher education for 40 years. His previous publications include Learning without Limits (Open University Press, 2004).