Grossman investigated the influence of subject-specific course- work in the development of pedagogical content knowledge in English through contrasting case studies of six beginning English teachers, only three of whom graduated from teacher education. She describes the differences in the teachers' knowl edge regarding the purposes for teaching secondary English, curricular knowledge, and knowledge of student understand ing.
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