Socialisation into Teaching: the research which lost its way

The paper argues that in recent years sociologists have neglected the processes of occupational socialisation of leaching, despite research interest in everyday life in other educational settings. Shortcomings in the extant research on teacher socialisation and in the wider literature on professional socialisation are detailed to explain the lack of intellectual interest in teacher socialisation. Finally, the paper offers some potential lines for the development of research on teacher socialisation. Just as we need to know more about how children are transformed into pupils, so must we know more about how young persons (usually college students) are transformed into teachers (Wax & Wax, 1971, pp. 10‐11)