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Publication date: 8 June 2021

Jo Fletcher, Chris Astall and John Everatt

This paper is about mentoring of initial teacher education (ITE) students whilst on their practicum.

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Purpose

This paper is about mentoring of initial teacher education (ITE) students whilst on their practicum.

Design/methodology/approach

Informed by a social constructivist theoretical framework, an online survey was used to capture the breadth of quantitative data and the richness of qualitative responses relating to factors that impact student teachers' experiences during practicum.

Findings

Quantitative data indicate that many student teachers were positive about the practicum, but this varied across the type of school in which they were placed. The qualitative data analyses showed a greater in-depth understanding of the range of issues that impacted how student teachers are treated in their role as a mentee by the mentor and the wider school community.

Practical implications

Better understanding the experiences of student teachers helps to inform ITE providers of the critical role that mentor teachers play in preparing student teachers. The practical implications are that strategies to develop deep and collaborative partnerships amongst ITE providers, mentor teachers and school leaders, which build stronger understandings of a mentor teacher's role, are critical in order to support student teachers.

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This research study repositions the critical nature of effective mentoring of student teachers so that mentor teachers and ITE providers can be informed by the voices and lived realities of these student teachers. The mentoring relationship needs to be critically interrogated to provide a more even and supportive “playing field” for all student teachers.

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International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, vol. 10 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2046-6854

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Publication date: 10 November 2021

Botshabelo Maja

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Black Youth Aspirations
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ISBN: 978-1-80262-025-2

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Publication date: 1 June 1924

WITH this issue we are commencing the twenty‐seventh year of our career as an independent Library Journal and trust that we shall carry on the tradition of our illustrious founder…

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WITH this issue we are commencing the twenty‐seventh year of our career as an independent Library Journal and trust that we shall carry on the tradition of our illustrious founder and continue to criticise or praise without fear or favour. During the past twelve months our editorial staff has successfully produced special numbers dealing with Bookbinding, Book Selection, Children's Departments, Classification, and Colonial Libraries. Judging by the correspondence we have received, our efforts have been greatly appreciated by the majority of our readers. Naturally we have not pleased everybody and we have even been dubbed the “little contemporary” in some quarters. However, we can point to an unbroken record of twenty‐six years' endeavour to serve the library profession and we ourselves are justly proud of the contemptible “little contemporary” that did not cease to appear even during the darkest hours of the dread war period.

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New Library World, vol. 27 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 January 1939

HENRY D. ROBERTS

AT the end of October, 1935, I retired from active service, after more than fifty years spent in library administration. And now my friend, the editor of this journal, asks me to…

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AT the end of October, 1935, I retired from active service, after more than fifty years spent in library administration. And now my friend, the editor of this journal, asks me to write some reminiscences in a short article. The limitations of space do not provide for more than a series of brief notes, but it is possible that fuller details may subsequently appear in another form.

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Library Review, vol. 7 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 27 March 2009

Mark J. Taylor, Sandi Duffy and David England

The purpose of this paper is to examine the type of adjustments to delivery appropriate for students with dyslexia in a UK higher education setting.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the type of adjustments to delivery appropriate for students with dyslexia in a UK higher education setting.

Design/methodology/approach

A case study in a UK university department was conducted over a four‐year period.

Findings

It was found that a variety of adjustments may be required for students with dyslexia in a UK higher education environment including adjustments to teaching delivery, assessment and pastoral care. In addition it is necessary to provide a managed transition from school/college/work to higher education.

Research limitations/implications

Although the case study reported here focusesd on only 22 students with dyslexia, the number of students entering UK higher education with dyslexia is likely to increase and institutions need to be aware of the adjustments that may potentially be required.

Originality/value

Previously few students with dyslexia had attended university in the UK. However, growing numbers of such students are now attending university, but thus far little, if any, research has been conducted regarding the adjustments that may need to be made for such students.

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Education + Training, vol. 51 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 1 January 1932

LIBRARY activity has been very great since the year opened. On all sides librarians report issues which are greatly in excess of any previously reached. This has been interpreted…

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LIBRARY activity has been very great since the year opened. On all sides librarians report issues which are greatly in excess of any previously reached. This has been interpreted by ourselves and by others as a reflex of the general unemployment. It is also due no doubt to the lack of pence on the part of many people for amusements, who find that reading is a cheap form of diversion. There can be no cause for anything but satisfaction in the fact that in such unhappy times our people turn to books. It is a hopeful sign, for the nation that reads gathers a resilience and buoyancy which can be got from few other activities.

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New Library World, vol. 34 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 April 2002

In essence it seems quite simple: look after your customers and they will look after your business. But as with all such management theories, customer relationship management…

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In essence it seems quite simple: look after your customers and they will look after your business. But as with all such management theories, customer relationship management (CRM) is hard to do – properly. One recent survey found that 70 percent of companies that had implemented CRM have found it to be only a minor success or even a failure.

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Strategic Direction, vol. 18 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0258-0543

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Publication date: 1 April 1935

IN this number we make some commemoration of the twenty‐five years so happily achieved by the King‐Emperor. As our contributors show, the cardinal event of the whole of the Reign…

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IN this number we make some commemoration of the twenty‐five years so happily achieved by the King‐Emperor. As our contributors show, the cardinal event of the whole of the Reign, so far as libraries were concerned, was the passing of the Public Libraries Act of 1919. The generations change rapidly, and there are few to‐day who remember acutely the penury and struggle which were involved in the fact that all public library expenditure had to be kept within “the limit of the penny rate.” It is possibly true that the average community has taken no very intelligent advantage of the breaking of its financial fetters; in no town in the British Empire can it be said that there is anything approaching generosity, let alone extravagance, towards libraries. Even in the greatest cities, where they have built fine buildings and opened them with much ceremony, the rate allocation for their maintenance is not nearly of the scale that finds acceptance, or did find acceptance, in the United States. That is because we are young people in an old country. The tradition dies hard that education is a luxury and that libraries, which in the eyes of many are only remotely related to education, are an even greater luxury. We heard it said recently that many local authorities regarded the libraries as a sort of joke, and delighted to cut down their expenditure upon them. This lugubrious way of opening our remarks upon the Jubilee is only by way of pointing out that to‐day, at any rate, we have the power to go ahead if we convince our authorities that it is desirable to do so.

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New Library World, vol. 37 no. 9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 December 1908

EVERYONE interested in the British library movement will learn with sorrow and regret that one of its greatest friends and strongest champions has passed away, in the person of…

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EVERYONE interested in the British library movement will learn with sorrow and regret that one of its greatest friends and strongest champions has passed away, in the person of Thomas Greenwood, the kind‐hearted and generous advocate of libraries, who won the respect and regard of every English libiarian. From one of his own periodicals the following particulars are abstracted:—

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New Library World, vol. 11 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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Publication date: 1 January 1898

For quite a number of years Librarians and Library Authorities have been urging the establishment of a magazine which will reflect accurately and systematically the various phases…

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For quite a number of years Librarians and Library Authorities have been urging the establishment of a magazine which will reflect accurately and systematically the various phases of modern Library work and progress. A demand has also arisen for a magazine of a more independent nature than anything hitherto issued, or, at least, one which is not hampered in any way by official connection with a society or other public body.

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New Library World, vol. 1 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4803

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