Evaluating constructivist beliefs of teacher candidates

Autor:	Jennifer E. Aldrich, Kelli Thomas
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Early childhood education Constructivism (philosophy of education) Pedagogy Mathematics education Primary education Early childhood Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Teacher education Education Constructivist teaching methods
Zdroj:	Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. 25:339-347
ISSN:	1745-5642 1090-1027
DOI:	10.1080/1090102050250408
Popis:	Teacher education programs that want their future teachers to embrace and employee constructivist principles must strive to provide opportunities for teacher candidates to develop an understanding of constructivism. The paper presents a structure for embedding constructivist principles into early childhood and elementary teacher education courses and the results of a pilot study at a Mid‐Western University. The results of the study demonstrate that teacher candidates believe that constructivist practices are very to extremely important. In addition, their responses indicated that the teacher candidates believe that their role in a constructivist environment is very to extremely important. The study reinforces the importance of providing experiences in teacher education programs that will result in positive views of constructivism. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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