Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education

ISBN-13: 9780415883566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 310 str.

Jo Brownlee; Gregory Schraw; Donna Berthelsen

Opis

'Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education' provides an international perspective on teachers' personal epistemology, or beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing. Research from the Netherlands, Cyprus, Australia, the United States, Canada, Norway and Taiwan is presented to provide diverse viewpoints.

Spis treści

Introduction  1.Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education: An Emerging Field of Research  Joanne Brownlee, Gregory Schraw and Donna Berthelsen  Part 1: Preservice Teachers and Teaching  2. Personal Epistemology in Preservice Teacher Education  Aman Yadav, Mauricio Herron, and Ala Samarapungavan  3. Looking Into Mirrors: Teacher Educators’ Dilemmas in Constructing Pedagogical Understanding About Their Teaching  Harm Tillema  4. Personal Epistemology in Higher Education: Teachers’ Beliefs and the Role of Faculty Training Programs  Helge I. Strømsø and Ivar Bråten  5. Self-Authorship in Child Care Student Teachers: Is There a Link Between Beliefs and Practice?  Jo Brownlee, Angela Edwards, Donna Berthelsen and Gillian Boulton-Lewis  6. Personal Epistemology in Preservice Teachers: Belief Changes Throughout a Teacher Education Course  Sue Walker, Jo Brownlee, Beryl Exley, Annette Woods and Chrystal Whiteford  7. The Development of Teachers’ Personal Epistemology: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Preservice and Practicing Teachers  Lisa D. Bendixen and Alice J. Corkill  8. One Preservice Teacher’s Developing Personal Epistemology about Teaching and the Explicit Connection of Those Beliefs to Future Practice  Helenrose Fives  9. Personal Epistemologies and Pedagogy in Higher Education: Did We Really Mean to Say That to Our Students?  Rose M. Marra and Betsy Palmer  Part 2: Inservice Teachers and Teaching  10. Fostering Critical Awareness of Teachers’ Epistemological and Ontological Beliefs  Gregory Schraw, Lori Olafson and Michelle VanderVeldt  11. Teachers’ Personal Epistemologies as Predictors of Support for Their Students’ Autonomy  Michael Weinstock and Guy Roth  12. If There is No One Right Answer?: The Epistemological Implications of Classroom Interactions  Iris Tabak and Michael Weinstock  13. Personal Epistemology and Ill-Defined Problem-Solving in Solo and Duo Contexts  Nicos Valanides and Charoula Angeli  14. Teachers’ Epistemological Beliefs and Practices with Students with Disabilities and At-Risk in Inclusive Classrooms: Implications for Teacher Development  Eileen Schwartz and Anne Jordan  15. The Epistemic Underpinnings of Mrs. M’s Reading Lesson on Drawing Conclusions: A Classroom-Based Research Study  Florian C. Feucht  16. Teachers’ Scientific Epistemological Views, Conceptions of Teaching Science and Their Approaches to Teaching Science: An Exploratory Study of In-Service Science Teachers in Taiwan  Min-Hsien Lee and Chin-Chung Tsai  Conclusion  17. Teachers’ Personal Epistemologies and Teacher Education: Emergent Themes and Future Research  Gregory Schraw, Joanne Brownlee, and Donna Berthelsen

O autorze

Joanne Brownlee is an Associate Professor in the School of Early Childhood, QUT, Australia.

Gregg Schraw is a Barrick Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Donna Berthelsen is an Associate Professor in the School of Early Childhood at QUT, Australia.