Going towards being a Professional Teacher

ANALYSIS Analysis of In- Text Citations               The aim of this written passage is to analyze the use of in-text citations used by Dolk & den Hertog (2008) in their acticle “Narratives in Teacher Education” based on the theory provided in American Psychological Association (APA) Manual (2010), 6 th edition.              In this article, Dolk & den Hertog (2008) paraphrase with their own words phrases from other authors, therefore they include the surname of the referenced authors followed by the year of publication into brackets as shown in the following example:             As Freudenthal (1991) stated, teaching and didactical experiences result from observing learning processes.            Another way of paraphrasing is mentioning th...

SUMMARY  Narratives in Teacher Education                           Narratives in teacher education is an informative article written by Dolk & den Hertog (2008)  which accounts for a learning experience developed in The Netherlands. It aims to bridge the  gap between theory and experience in teacher education colleges. The authors claim that by means of this approach, prospective teachers are stimulated to construct their own knowledge, observing and investigating into real classroom contexts and bringing their own experiences into their training.                The learning experience which the authors refer to is a multimedia interactive learning environment (MILE). This environment brings 70 hours of mathematics teaching and contains videos of real lessons plus communication tools for learners and journals as well. Since i...