Pre-Primary English Teacher Education in Macau: Investigating a Teacher Educator’s Beliefs and Practices

EFL Teacher Educators and EFL teachers’ Perspectives on Identity-Oriented Teacher Education Programs

Different aspects of identity have been investigated across various educational fields. Although many studies have been done to investigate different aspects of EFL teachers’ identity development, there is a paucity of research on identity-oriented EFL teacher education programs. Hence, the purpose of the current study was to investigate EFL teacher educators’ and EFL teachers’ perspectives abo...

Teacher Educators ' Conceptualisations and Practices towards Inquiry Based Science Teaching

Currently European teachers have to develop inquiry based science teaching [IBST] in order to enhance pupils' learning and motivation towards scientific objects. Such teaching approaches are learning-focused, and appear more complex than content-centred methods. This paper focuses on 8 science teachers who are involved both within professional networks and with part time in service teacher educ...

Teacher beliefs and technology integration practices: A critical relationship

Early studies indicated that teachers’ enacted beliefs, particularly in terms of classroom technology practices, often did not align with their espoused beliefs. Researchers concluded this was due, at least in part, to a variety of external barriers that prevented teachers from using technology in ways that aligned more closely with their beliefs. However, many of these barriers (access, suppor...

Scholarly Behaviors of Physical Education Methods Teacher Educators in Ohio

Teacher Education Curriculum and Its Collaborative Implementation Model: A Transformative Strategy for Teacher Education in Iran

This article engages the reader with a critical and challenging issue in teacher education domain. The issue chosen is the structure of the program which extends itself quite naturally to the issue of implementation in terms of institutions involved. The author argues that although there is no definite answer to the question of which pre-service teacher education program assures training of eff...