150 pages
228 x 145mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 104 3
ISBN-13: 978 185856 104 2
June 1999

To become a student and a teacher in mid career is a bold step undertaken by a significant number of women. This book helps and supports the exciting but difficult transition from joining a student community through study skills, teaching practice and getting and taking up a teaching job.
"Diane Duncan's book fills a gap by blending together expert advice with accounts drawn from a study of mature women training to be teachers. In these circumstances, we get a vivid portrait of the hopes, fears, highs, lows, doubts and ambitions of trainee teachers in their own words.
This volume is therefore essential reading for all those intending to become primary teachers as it offers much useful advice together with comments from real students. Diane Duncan has provided an insight into the student experience and an essential guide on how to set about becoming a primary school teacher. It deserves to be widely read and should be placed on every reading list for trainee teachers."
Robert Burgess, Vice Chancellor, University of Leicester
Dr Diane Duncan is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Hertfordshire.

I found explorations of negotiation of new roles and responsibilities in both domestic settings and in schools, with mentors and head teachers, particularly fascinating. -New Era in Education