Relationships Between Knowledge and Learning Environments in Teacher Education

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The education of teachers, asserts the author, involves three categories of knowledge: particularistic, technical and liberal. Particularistic knowledge, a prod uct of direct experience, is what pros pective teachers understand as a result of their multiple exposures to class rooms and teachers. Technical knowl edge, the body of skills and understand ings that constitute the knowledge base undergirding teaching, results from laboratory instruction in which preser vice teachers practice and reflect on methods and skills. Liberal knowledge, more universal in character, is composed of the concepts and generalizations as sociated with the disciplines. Liberal knowledge is applicable to the broadest social contexts and contains the most objective truth value. The three knowledge areas are differ entially associated with field, laboratory and scholarly/scientific learning environ ments. Effective teacher training matches knowledge acquisition proce dures with appropriate learning environ ments.

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