%0 Journal Article
%T Embarking on the Teaching Journey:Pre-service Teachers Reflecting upon Themselves as Future Teachers
%A Kitt Margaret Lyngsnes
%J World Journal of Education
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.5430/wje.v2n2p2
%X This article reports on a research study that examined 25 reflective papers written by pre-service teachers a few  weeks into attending primary teacher education. The overall aim of the study was to gain insight into the students¡¯ thoughts and ways of reflecting as a basis for taking action to improve lecturing, tasks and exercises which promote reflection in the primary teacher education program. The students were asked to write a paper reflecting upon ¡°The teacher I want to become¡±. Two research questions were posed upon the material: What images of teachers emerge in the texts? How is reflection carried out in constructing these images? The analysis of the reflective papers revealed that the students¡¯ images of themselves might be placed in the main category; ¡°caring teacher¡±. Furthermore their ways and levels of reflection varied considerably from descriptions and fragmented thoughts to accounts with elements of dialogic reflection.
%U http://www.sciedu.ca/journal/index.php/wje/article/view/985