Exploring the Moral Socialisation of Teacher Candidates

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Abstract
Against the popular trend of increasing technification of teacher education in the United States, the author argues for teaching as a moral enterprise and studies the moral socialisation experiences of teacher candidates in selected teacher training institutions, using data from a national study of the education of educators in the United States. Lack of a shared moral vision and peer culture among teacher candidates, inadquate foundation courses, and the conservative practice sites were found to be the major problems for teacher education reformers.