![Sample our Education journals, sign in here to start your access, latest two full volumes FREE to you for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/5932/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Education.jpg"})
Abstract
This article develops the arguments of previous accounts of the use of Individual Action Planning (IAP) in the University of Leicester School of Education Secondary PGCE course and subsequently with Newly Qualified Teachers in Leicestershire. It shows how external forces impinged upon the PGCE course developments to produce a situation in which the embedded use of IAPs became the solution to the logistical and pedagogical problems faced by the university and school tutors. It also discusses the reactions of student teachers and school tutors involved with the deployment of Action Planning as a unifying and pervasive feature of the PGCE school experience.