ABSTRACT
University–school partnership has been viewed as a way to create a needed “third” or hybrid space for practice learning; a space “interconnecting the two spaces of universities and schools” that in some sense dissolves the theory/practice divide, putting both into a much more dynamic and contextualized relationship. The spaces in which school educators' meet for their secondary on-site seminars are based at their partner schools, but facilitated by a combination of University faculty and teachers and staff at the school. Although the on-site seminar is labeled a seminar, it is not a full course in a conventional sense, but rather linked to school educators' program’s year-long “Teaching and Learning” course sequence. The on-site seminars run in parallel to the weekly Teaching and Learning class in which all of the Master of Arts in Teaching participate, affording school-based cohorts the opportunity to discuss the topics we are addressing in school educators' University class in the more intimate and specific context of their placement schools.
