The limitations of front-end loading in undergraduate university programs Allen, J. M and Sinclair, M 2011, The limitations of front-end loading in undergraduate university programs, in Program from the 2011 World Universities Forum, The Hong Kong Education Research Association and Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, pp. 1-1. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads allen-limitationsof-post-2011.pdf Authors' post print application/pdf 929.15KB 218 Title The limitations of front-end loading in undergraduate university programs Author(s) Allen, J. M Sinclair, M Conference name World Universities Forum (4th : 2011 : Hong Kong) Conference location Hong Kong Conference dates 14-16 Jan. 2011 Title of proceedings Program from the 2011 World Universities Forum Editor(s) [unknown] Publication date 2011 Conference series World Universities Forum Start page 1 End page 1 Total pages 1 Publisher The Hong Kong Education Research Association and Hong Kong Institute of Education Place of publication Hong Kong Keyword(s) theory-practice higher education front-end loading program work-integrated learning Mead theory of emergence pre-service teacher education Summary This paper shows how Mead’s theory of emergence can prove explanatory in how the theory-practice gap is co-created and sustained in front-end loading university programs. Taking teacher education as an exemplar, we argue that the trainee teacher encounters different and oft-times conflicting environmental, social and cultural conditions in the two “fields of interaction” of the training program, namely, on-campus work and in-school experience. The argument draws on interview and focus group data collected via a study of first-year graduate teachers of an Australian teacher education program. We conclude that role taking and self-regulated behaviour within the two environmental fields of interaction in front-end loading programs inhibit the trainee professional from exercising the power of agency to implement theory learned at university in practice in the workplace. Further, we propose that Mead’s theory of emergence proves effective in explaining a major limitation of front-end-loaded university programs. Language eng Field of Research 130103 Higher Education Socio Economic Objective 930202 Teacher and Instructor Development HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed Copyright notice ©2011, Hong Kong Education Research Association and Hong Kong Institute of Education Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30064090 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 05 Jun 2014, 19:32:57 EST Fri, 06 Jun 2014, 09:55:33 EST Fri, 06 Jun 2014, 11:40:13 EST Fri, 06 Jun 2014, 11:41:24 EST Mon, 09 Jun 2014, 09:19:15 EST Mon, 09 Jun 2014, 09:22:04 EST Tue, 17 Jun 2014, 10:15:36 EST Wed, 18 Jun 2014, 12:44:44 EST Wed, 18 Jun 2014, 12:45:30 EST Wed, 18 Jun 2014, 12:59:09 EST Wed, 11 Feb 2015, 10:53:24 EST Wed, 06 Dec 2017, 06:07:12 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 17:10:18 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 197 Abstract Views, 221 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 05 Jun 2014, 19:32:34 EST by Jeanne Allen