Development of Images of a Beginning Teacher on Educational Practices : Based on a Case Study for a Year

Abstract

This study investigated the peculiarity about development of images of a beginning teacher on educational practices and communication with others in Japanese school context. For the purpose the author described the actual situation based on a case study, and tried to compare it with (1) ethnopedagogy (Shimabara and Sakai 1990) and (2) case studies in western countries. As a result, a beginning teacher's communication with his colleagues both reinforced and moderated "kizuna (bonds between teacher and pupil)", the central idea of ethnopedagogy. Considering development of his images on educational practices, he could not see himself as teacher as professional as to his "pupil" and "teacher" images because of little critical communication between him and his colleagues.