Exploratory Study of Epistemological Beliefs of Hong Kong Teacher Education Students: Resolving conceptual and empirical issues

A survey study was conducted to investigate the epistemological beliefs of 352 student teachers of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Schommer's 63-item questionnaire was used in the survey study with Schommer's 12 conceptual subscales as variables in Principal Axis Factoring (PAF) analysis followed by varimax and oblimin rotation. Three factors were generated with an eigen value of 1.00 as cut-off. Some features distinct from Schommer's studies were identified. The three factors were complex, with two to three subscales representing different dimensions loaded together. The subscale concerned with Omniscient Authority, which was not reported in Schommer's findings, substantively loaded in one of the factors. Social-cultural factors were suggested to account for the apparent differences in factor structure obtained in this study, with implications drawn for teacher education. Revision of Schommer's questionnaire was suggested to study epistemological beliefs for local context.     

走向反思型教师培养的高师教育

反思型教师是不断追求教育的善的教师.他们不仅具有教育教学的知识和技能,而且具有不断反思探究以提升教育实践合理性和自身素养的意识和能力.培养反思型教师既是人们对教师所从事的职业活动——教育教学活动复杂性认识的结果,也是今天社会与教育改革的现实要求.作为教师教育链条上基础性的一环,高师教育应转变培养范式,从德性养成和理性提升两方面为反思型教师奠定素质基础.     

教师反思与职前教师教育改革

教师反思是教师为了提升教育教学实践合理性而进行的自我检查、自我评价和自我修正。反思使教师成为自觉的开放的存在,是教师自我成长之道。职前教师教育应转变培养范式,为反思型教师奠定素质基础：涵养德性,发展反思的动力;提升理性,发展反思的能力。     

论教师职前教育的经验课程

"经验"是教师专业发展不可回避的概念,"经验学习"是教师职前专业发展的重要内容,"经验课程"是教师职前教育课程中的重要组成部分。在教师教育范畴中重新审视"经验"、"经验学习"和"经验课程",建立符合教师专业发展要求的"经验课程",是当前教师职前教育课程改革的重要任务。     

Differences in Competence and Beliefs About Autism Among Teacher Education Students

Students with autism often are placed in general education classrooms, indicating general education teachers should be prepared to meet these students' needs. This survey study of teacher education students examined differences in educational training, beliefs about autism, and competence working with students with autism, according to college level and major area of study. Results showed that teacher education students held accurate beliefs about most aspects of autism, but they demonstrated misconceptions about special, gifted abilities. Secondary teacher education students were less likely to demonstrate accurate beliefs about the social emotional features of autism over the course of their training. General education teachers reported a lack of competence working with students with autism and believed additional training was needed. Findings suggested ongoing preservice training is needed to foster accurate beliefs about autism and competence working with students with autism.     

职前教师教育运用叙事研究的国际经验

职前教师教育是我国高等教育的一个重要组成部分,创新职前教师教育,提高入职教师水平是高等教育改革的重要议题。本文介绍了教育叙事和叙事研究在国外的缘起以及在教师教育与发展中的运用,并从理论和实践层面探讨了将这一新的方法运用于我国职前教师教育的必要性和可行性。     

师范院校英语实习生教学信念之调查研究

本文采用剀利方格法调查师范院校在中学实习的毕业生的教学信念,从学生信念和以前语言学习经历的关系、学生信念和课堂实践的关系、学生信念和教师发展三方面进行了分析和探讨,结果表明实习学生的教学实践仍然深受自己以前英语学习方法的影响,自己的教学信念往往很难在课堂实践中进行操作,也很难进行教师的自我发展。     

韩国职前数学教师教育的评介与分析

韩国的数学教师职前教育体制有如下特点:类型多样的教师职前培养机构、严格的公立学校数学教师聘任制度、定期的教师教育机构评估制度.小学数学教师教育课程具有综合性、多样化特点;中学数学教师教育课程更重视学科知识.韩国数学教师职前教育对中国的数学教师教育有如下启示:建立多元的办学体制,致力于专业化的数学教师培养;以教师聘任制度和教师教育机构评估制度促进数学教师培养质量的提高;在学科课程和教学法课程之间寻求恰当平衡.     

论职前教师教育中反思型教师的培养(英文)

国内外教育界诸多研究表明,教师的反思能力是实现教师自身发展的关键。师范教育中如何培养学生的教学反思能力已经为越来越多的人所关注。本文提出职前教育应该以培养反思型教师为目标,并在此基础上提出了不同形式的旨在培养学生的反思能力的培训活动。     

Dimensionality of Teacher Education Beliefs

An inventory of items describing notions about how learning occurs, what priorities are important in education, and how teachers should relate to students was administered to a sample of 290 teachers assigned to kindergarten and grades one through six. An oblique factor solution yielded four moderately independent dimensions of belief describing affective and cognitive educational values, directive teaching behavior, and relevancy in subject matter. The significance of the multidimensional findings for teacher belief profiles is discussed.     

职前教师教育中数学教育类课程的构建

基础教育数学课程改革对数学教师的素质提出了新的要求,作为培养基础教育数学师资的母机高校数学教育,就应采取积极的策略,构建与时俱进的、具有前瞻性数学教育类课程体系,培养高素质的数学教师,以适应新课程改革的需要。     

职前教师教育中视频案例教学的研究

在职前教师教育中采用视频案例教学是发展师范生教学技能和提高教师专业能力的一个新方法。本文在梳理教师教育中视频案例教学重要概念的基础上,考察了国内外教师教育中视频案例教学研究的现状,最后作者提出了应用于职前教师教育中的视频案例学习环境创设框架,它包括有机联系的六个要素:案例与资源、活动、工具、支架、共同体和评价。     

美国职前、入职和在职教师教育评估体系简介

教师专业生涯发展由职前、入职和在职教育三部分组成。美国通过对大学的认证和学生的选拔保证了职前教育质量。毕业生经过学科专业评价，获得初级证书，进入新手教师教学导入计划。在达到标准并通过课堂行为评价后，才能获得正式教师证书，进入教师专业。对在职教育，没有统一的标准，但要求教师继续学习并取得更高学位。     

Student Teachers’ Beliefs and a Changing Teacher Role

This article discusses the encounters between the changing expectations on the teacher role, teacher education and Swedish student teachers’ beliefs about their role as teachers, with special emphasis on the socialisation process of the pupils and the teacher's possible influence on it. The discussion is based on two empirical studies among Swedish compulsory school student teachers (M. von Wright, (1996) Propedeusis? Om motet mellan lärarstuderande och lärarutbildningen, in: Grundskollärarutbüdningen 1995. En utvärdering. Högskoleverkets rapportserie 1996:1 R.; M. von Wright (1997) Socialisationsprocessen. Metaforer och synsätt hos blivande lärare. Licentiatuppsats. Lärarhögskolan i Stockholm). The results show that student teachers when they enter their education on the one hand tend to carry with them explicit expectations which strongly reflect the values of what is considered pedagogically correct. At the same time students express implicit beliefs and underlying conceptions of human development, which in many cases are incoherent. During teacher education the pedagogically correct beliefs might become replaced, but implicit beliefs as affinity to certain pedagogical discourses are not changed or brought to awareness unless they are seriously challenged and problematised. Yet these beliefs direct the students’ attention. Changing demands on the teacher role bring about expectations on a shift in thinking about teaching and learning. Teacher education and educators can play important roles in making the students aware of their everyday beliefs and eventually change them.     

论教师职前实践教学的取向转换

"基于学校"和"基于大学"的传统教师职前实践教学的"理论之应用"取向,包含着理解教育理论与教育实践关系的两种立场:一是实践的典型化;二是理论的实践化。它们在本质上都是将教师职前培养阶段的实践教学与理论学习二元对立起来。自20世纪80年代以来,美英等国教师职前实践教学的改革项目推行"实践中之理论"取向,改变了实践教学的要素构成和实施环境。     

论师生角色的置换

让学生走上讲台,充当教师的角色,进行一些平日只由教师主导下完成的教学目标和任务,这在素质教育不断深化和发展的今天,是一种值得探索和研究的新的教学方式。     

Using Arts-based Methods in Pre-service Teacher Education: Perzine Pedagogies

The possibilities afforded by perzine pedagogies to nurture reflexivity in pre-service student teachers are presented and explored in this article. Perzine pedagogy as arts-based inquiry is grounded in the events of practical life and may provide a learning context for exploring the problematised nature of teaching. It considers how this reflexive and inquiry-oriented method offers opportunities to interrogate past learning, to accommodate the affective, to challenge constructed beliefs and to build adaptive behaviours. Employing the narrative inquiry lens of the researcher artist/teacher educator and the narrating and reflective voice of a visual arts teacher, this article illustrates how perzine production may inform insights into construction of teacher/learner identities. Perzines offer opportunities for experiential, critical and experimental encounters to move beyond the competency rhetoric to meet a new ethic: a personal desire for self-reflection and expression through opportunities to re-represent the teacher/learner self.