| Abstract: | Teachers’ professional socialisation is a total process which develops or modifies teachers’ behaviour during their professional life. Institutional teacher training is understood to be an integrated part of this socialisation process. Teaching practice is another integrated systematic part of this process. The early years of teaching practice have fundamental importance in the integration of pedagogic and educational behaviour. This socialisation process occurs in different ways and to varying degrees among teachers, resulting in certain stages being reached in teaching practice. These ‘steps’ are influenced by at least two types of factors: (i) the nature of models teaching training transmitted during institutional teacher training; (ii) the social composition of students and the institutional styles existing in the teaching practice. |
