Relevance of casework

Ideas to support the professional development of prospective teachers in internships.

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20377/rpb-82

Keywords:

casework, internship, professionalism, professionalization, teacher education

Abstract

The article combines the perspectives of different approaches to professionalization with strategies to support prospective teachers in internships at university. It aims at giving a description of how support for prospec­tive teachers should be designed to systematically accompany develop­ment and learning in internships. Therefore it first addresses the framework conditions and research findings on long-term internships. This is followed by ideas to support professionalization processes of prospective teachers in school during their internship. The ad­vantages of reconstructive casework from the perspective of the approaches to professionalization are discussed.

Author Biographies

Carina Caruso, University of Paderborn

Dr. Carina Caruso is a post-doc focussing on empirical educational research. Her research interests comprise students' professional learning in internships, teachers' professional development, and expertise development within the context of digitalised work environments.

Jan Woppowa, Universität Paderborn, Institut für Katholische Theologie, Religionspädagogik/-didaktik

Prof. Dr. Jan Woppowa is Professor of Religious Education and Religious Didactics at the University of Paderborn. His research focuses on questions about the didactic design of school religious education in view of the confessional and religious heterogeneity of the students.

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Published

2021-05-05

How to Cite

Caruso, C. and Woppowa, J. (2021) “Relevance of casework: Ideas to support the professional development of prospective teachers in internships”., Journal for Religion in Education, 44(1), pp. 15–23. doi: 10.20377/rpb-82.

Issue

Vol. 44 No. 1 (2021)

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Articles