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Teachers’ Transition from School to Work: The Reproduction of Schools’ Organizational Functioning through Teacher Education

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Notions that teachers’ classroom work often gets decoupled from institutional goals of schooling have long been central to sociological theories of schools’ organizational functioning. Despite the pervasiveness of decoupling arguments, we know comparatively little about how teachers learn to operate within schools’ organizational conditions. In this article, I draw upon data from a longitudinal ethnographic study of college seniors in a teacher education program transitioning from coursework, through student teaching, and into their first jobs as teachers. I focus on the collective routines teacher candidates experience, and how they make sense of their roles in schools – both prospectively and upon entry into the occupation – as they pass through the stages of their transition from student to teacher. I find that new teachers reproduce and reinvent the organizational conditions of schools by developing perspectives which prioritize: 1) ongoing adaptation to individual classroom contexts; 2) a locus of control in the classroom; and 3) having a positive influence on students which may or may not overlap with curriculum standards. I discuss implications for theories of decoupling in schools, teacher education, and understanding relationships between social structure and processes of professional socialization.

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Everitt, Judson. "Teachers’ Transition from School to Work: The Reproduction of Schools’ Organizational Functioning through Teacher Education" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242378_index.html>

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Everitt, J. G. , 2008-07-31 "Teachers’ Transition from School to Work: The Reproduction of Schools’ Organizational Functioning through Teacher Education" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242378_index.html

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Abstract: Notions that teachers’ classroom work often gets decoupled from institutional goals of schooling have long been central to sociological theories of schools’ organizational functioning. Despite the pervasiveness of decoupling arguments, we know comparatively little about how teachers learn to operate within schools’ organizational conditions. In this article, I draw upon data from a longitudinal ethnographic study of college seniors in a teacher education program transitioning from coursework, through student teaching, and into their first jobs as teachers. I focus on the collective routines teacher candidates experience, and how they make sense of their roles in schools – both prospectively and upon entry into the occupation – as they pass through the stages of their transition from student to teacher. I find that new teachers reproduce and reinvent the organizational conditions of schools by developing perspectives which prioritize: 1) ongoing adaptation to individual classroom contexts; 2) a locus of control in the classroom; and 3) having a positive influence on students which may or may not overlap with curriculum standards. I discuss implications for theories of decoupling in schools, teacher education, and understanding relationships between social structure and processes of professional socialization.

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Teachers’ Transition from School to Work: The Reproduction of Schools’ Organizational Functioning through Teacher Education Judson Everitt Indiana University *Direct all correspondence to Judson Everitt Department of Sociology Indiana University 1020 East Kirkwood Avenue – Ballantine Hall 744 Bloomington Indiana 47405-7103 jeveritt@indiana.edu. **I would like to thank William A. Corsaro Pamela Barnhouse Walters Maurice Garnier and Bradley A. U. Levinson for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper. ABSTRACT Notions that teachers’ classroom work often gets decoupled from
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