Teaching from the heart: exploring beginner teachers’ attitudinal knowledge

This article provides insight into the knowledge held by Zimbabwean Ordinary Level beginner teachers who teach Literature in English. An extant of research output on ESL focuses curriculum, subject, learner, and pedagogical content linguistic content, with limited, if any, focus To address this gap, study employed a qualitative single case design to gather data four purposively selected teachers. In context study, were college trained English had been profession for less than years. The was underpinned social constructivism current literature experiential teacher knowledge. established as novel finding that attitudinal Additionally, findings affirmed teachers’ multiple-sourced construct fluid, idiosyncratic, attitudinal, pragmatic, contextual. recommends preparation institutions consider basis student training programmes foster connections between personal sources construction.