Over the last decade, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has pursued educational reform in elementary teacher education. Because elementary teachers and teacher education are central to the reform agenda, there is a need to gain empirical evidence about how PNG teacher trainers' understandings about learning and teaching impact on their practice. The study…

Comments from Australian student teachers' field experience journals identified complex developments among student teachers, who moved from teacher-centered to student-centered views of instruction, from personal to professional views of teacher-student relationships, and from control to holistic views of classroom management as they advanced in…