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School experience influences on pre-service teachers' evolving beliefs about effective teaching

Wan Ng, +2 more
- 01 Feb 2010 - 
- Vol. 26, Iss: 2, pp 278-289
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In this paper, the authors tracked a group of 37 pre-service teachers' evolving beliefs about and perceptions of themselves and their experiences from the initial data collection prior to any experiential base in schools through the varied phases of their professional placements involving steadily increasing levels of professional responsibility.
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This article is published in Teaching and Teacher Education.The article was published on 2010-02-01. It has received 254 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Practicum & Attitude change.

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Teacher Beliefs and Technology Integration.

TL;DR: The authors investigated how teacher beliefs were related to technology integration practices and found that teachers' beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning, beliefs about effective ways of teaching, and technology integration were related with each other.
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Opening the black box of field experiences: How cooperating teachers' beliefs and practices shape student teachers' beliefs and practices

TL;DR: This paper employed ethnographic methods to describe and explain changes to beginning science teachers' practices and beliefs during a year long internship, and found that teaching practices were strongly influenced by the cooperating teachers.
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Research on teaching practicum – a systematic review

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of the area of teaching practicum research is presented, which focuses on research studies into the school practicum, identifying the main issues and also to provide a contemporary picture of practicum.
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Pre-service teachers' changing beliefs in the teaching practicum: Three cases in an EFL context

TL;DR: The authors investigated the process of belief change among three pre-service language teachers during the teaching practicum in a university in China and found that student teachers' beliefs experienced different processes of change during the practicum, including confirmation, realization, disagreement, elaboration, integration, and modification.
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What contributes to first-year student teachers’ sense of professional agency in the classroom?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored Finnish first-year primary teacher students' sense of professional agency in the classroom and explored the interrelation between teacher education as a learning environment and the perceptions of teacher education.
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Teachers’ Beliefs and Educational Research: Cleaning Up a Messy Construct:

TL;DR: The authors examines the meaning prominent researchers give to beliefs and how this meaning differs from that of knowledge, provides a definition of belief consistent with the best work in this area, and explores the nature of belief structures as outlined by key researchers.
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The Development of Epistemological Theories: Beliefs About Knowledge and Knowing and Their Relation to Learning

TL;DR: There have been a number of research programs that have investigated students' thinking and beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing, including definitions of knowledge, how knowledge is constructed, and how knowledge evaluation is evaluated.
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Effects of beliefs about the nature of knowledge on comprehension.

TL;DR: This paper studied students' beliefs about the nature of knowledge and how these beliefs affect comprehension, and found that students' belief about knowledge can affect their understanding of the world and their ability to understand it.
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Implication of Research on Teacher Belief

TL;DR: The need for an elaborate personal belief system among teachers arises out of the many uncertainties endemic to classroom teaching: in a landscape without bearings, teachers create and internalize their own maps as discussed by the authors.