Therefore, it could well be that Norwegian students also experience what Irish students in the Learning to Teach Study reported (Conway et al., 2010 and Long et al., 2012). A key finding here, was ways in which student teachers felt they had to hide their identities as learners in their field placement sites. Contrary to their ‘official’ identities as students of teaching, they typically felt compelled to present themselves as fully qualified teachers which foreclosed opportunities for observation, co-teaching and a more gradual exploratory enculturation into practice.