Peter Cunningham, Philip Gardner

'... a thorough and lively account of a unique group of student-teachers, based on interviews with some of them and analysis of recent documentation ... The individual accounts are sad, funny, usually vivid, occasionally banal, but at other times moving and even heroic.' - Ted Wragg, Times Educational Supplement'...an exceptionally scholarly work...the words of interviewees put the teaching profession into a social historical context that is irreplaceable, breathing life experience into the subject.' - Dr Neil Rafeek, History of Education Research No 75, 2005

• Part 1 Problems and Approaches. Part 2 Policy Developed - The Student-Teacher Scheme and its Origins; Policy Debated - Conflicting Ideals for Teacher Education and Training; Policy Concluded - Demise and Legacy of Student Teaching; A Stolen Profession? Social Class and Teacher Supply; A Narrow Life? Teachers and Professional Identity; Practice - Experience of Training from Classroom to College. Part 3 Person; Mr Brian Sawkin; Mrs Delia Skelley and Mrs Lesley Thornbird; Mr Gerald Phillips; Miss Daisy Shipley and Mr Arthur Shipley; Miss Barbara Mill.

Peter Cunningham, Philip Gardner

'... a thorough and lively account of a unique group of student-teachers, based on interviews with some of them and analysis of recent documentation ... The individual accounts are sad, funny, usually vivid, occasionally banal, but at other times moving and even heroic.' - Ted Wragg, Times Educational Supplement'...an exceptionally scholarly work...the words of interviewees put the teaching profession into a social historical context that is irreplaceable, breathing life experience into the subject.' - Dr Neil Rafeek, History of Education Research No 75, 2005

• Part 1 Problems and Approaches. Part 2 Policy Developed - The Student-Teacher Scheme and its Origins; Policy Debated - Conflicting Ideals for Teacher Education and Training; Policy Concluded - Demise and Legacy of Student Teaching; A Stolen Profession? Social Class and Teacher Supply; A Narrow Life? Teachers and Professional Identity; Practice - Experience of Training from Classroom to College. Part 3 Person; Mr Brian Sawkin; Mrs Delia Skelley and Mrs Lesley Thornbird; Mr Gerald Phillips; Miss Daisy Shipley and Mr Arthur Shipley; Miss Barbara Mill.

Peter Cunningham, Philip Gardner

'... a thorough and lively account of a unique group of student-teachers, based on interviews with some of them and analysis of recent documentation ... The individual accounts are sad, funny, usually vivid, occasionally banal, but at other times moving and even heroic.' - Ted Wragg, Times Educational Supplement'...an exceptionally scholarly work...the words of interviewees put the teaching profession into a social historical context that is irreplaceable, breathing life experience into the subject.' - Dr Neil Rafeek, History of Education Research No 75, 2005

• Part 1 Problems and Approaches. Part 2 Policy Developed - The Student-Teacher Scheme and its Origins; Policy Debated - Conflicting Ideals for Teacher Education and Training; Policy Concluded - Demise and Legacy of Student Teaching; A Stolen Profession? Social Class and Teacher Supply; A Narrow Life? Teachers and Professional Identity; Practice - Experience of Training from Classroom to College. Part 3 Person; Mr Brian Sawkin; Mrs Delia Skelley and Mrs Lesley Thornbird; Mr Gerald Phillips; Miss Daisy Shipley and Mr Arthur Shipley; Miss Barbara Mill.