Teacher education philosophy plays an important role in enhancing the teachers’ awareness of the practices particularly in the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This study meant to observe the possible effect of the awareness of teacher education philosophy on EFL teachers’ professional skill in the light of Kumaravadivelu’s postmethod parameters, tapping teachers’ gender, academi...

Teacher education is deemed to play a critical role in revolutionizing any education system. As a result, pre-service teacher education has received considerable attention in education systems world over. In the context of Iran, the process of teacher education has not been properly implemented and following their being recruited teachers would go directly to classes, without possessing adequat...

A scientifically disciplined, learning-oriented approach to mathematics education is described and illustrated through examples. Mathematicians tend to focus on teacher education, with an implicit presumption that the current teacher corps is not sufficiently competent. The analysis here suggests that the teachers are competent enough, but the methodology they have been taught to use is incompe...

Anita Prest is a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum & Pedagogy (Music Education) at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Correspondence regarding the article can be e-mailed to: anita_ [email protected]. Special thanks to: Dr. William Doll, Dr. Donna Trueit and Dr. J. Scott Goble. The Journal of Research in Rural Education is published by the Center on Rural Education and Communities, College o...

A personal teaching philosophy is an essential and active element of a teacher. Acquiring a philosophy is powerful, in that it directs and guides a teacher’s teaching practices in the classroom as well as how they perceive teaching and learning and the students around them. This paper aims to discuss the importance of developing and reflecting on a personal teaching philosophy as a pre-service ...

This article presents the results of an investigation that examined a teacher education experience in general bioethics conducted by the University El 1 This research was possible thanks to the funding of the Bioethical Program of Universidad El Bosque. This article presents the results of an investigation that examined a teacher education experience in general bioethics conducted by the Univer...