Another area that we need to address is related to the problem mentioned earlier of the lack of time that has existed for group discussion of the students’ research in the seminar group.
Our student teaching program, like many others in the U.S.A., has invested considerable resources in supporting a clinical supervision program that involves university supervisors observing and conferring with student teachers in dyads or in triads that include the student’s cooperating teacher. While our approach to clinical supervision has emphasized attention to the kinds of issues and a quality of analysis that is consistent with our social reconstructionist orientation, and while we have made deliberate efforts to connect with students’ ongoing research in this supervision, the clinical supervision process is still structurally distinct within our program from both the seminar and the action research projects.