IDENTIFIERS *Student Teacher Attitudes

A)P This paper portrays three student teachers, in the same teacher education program, who were placed in a highly structured school for their field-experience. The study focuses on IhOw individual student teachers develop perspeCtives toward. teaching an interpret school,kxpertiences. individual ' case histories are presented, based on interviews with the student teachers and their cooperating and supervising teachers, questionnaires, and Classroom observations conducted overleifive-month period. Factors other than setting and personaliAy--specific events and people--influenced student teachers ' views. ' Although, actions the-three dtudent4 teachers'yere similar at times,,.due to school-designed practiCes, the student teachers developed divergent perspectives based on their unique perceptions,. Comparisons acid analyses-are made%;and implications for'tdacher education are discutsed. (Author /PG) '3