Professional Learning of Student Teachers and Its Support During Clinical Practice (Humanistic and Neo-humanistic Trends in Action).

The paper focuses on under-graduate teacher education, specifically on its phases, which in the Czech context have not been sufficiently investigated yet: those of on-the-job professional learning and its support (during the so-called Clinical year, i.e., a year-long internship), and of subsequent reflection of the on-site experience back at university. Attention is paid to the forms of support provided by the key facilitators of future teachers' professional development - mentors at schools, i.e. to their roles, strategies and techniques adopted in the collaborative relationship with student teachers, as well as to their operationalisation in the form of specific intervention types. The research results shed some light on the implementation of humanistic and neo-humanistic principles by mentors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]