Supervision in Teacher Education: A Counselling and Pedagogical Approach

First Published in 2004. Despite its centrality to the whole process of teacher education, the supervision of student teachers is still a very much neglected subject. The commonly held conception of a supervisor is of someone with the sole function of going into schools to observe student teachers and make suggestions about theory teaching practice. Professor stones fundamentally questions this view, arguing that much of the dissatisfaction expressed with teacher education is a result of tr...