Based on interviews with elementary student teachers, researchers examined the perspectives students developed about the teaching of social studies. Students were found to have constructed attitudes about the field that were different than those their universities had sought to develop. Findings document the role of the student teaching experience in the construction of student beliefs and bring into question the power of preservice methods courses to affect students’ ideas about teaching.
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