Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education (Routledge Research in Education)

Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education, edited by Joanne Brownlee, Gregg Schraw and Donna Berthelsen, provides an international perspective on teachers’ personal epistemology, or beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing. Research from The Netherlands, Cyprus, Australia, United States, Canada, Norway, and Taiwan is presented to provide diverse viewpoints on personal epistemology for early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary teaching contexts. The text provides a platform for cutting-edge theory and research about how personal epistemology can be applied to the context of teacher education, thereby making explicit the connection between personal epistemology and teaching and students’ learning outcomes. Topics include: Cultural differences in teacher epistemology and the impact on students’ learning Teachers’ epistemological beliefs and inclusion Teachers’ epistemology and reading lessons, citizenship education, and teaching science Epistemology in a social context Teachers’ epistemological beliefs and student autonomy Teacher education and analysis of preservice and practicing teachers Implications of teachers’ epistemological beliefs Connections to future practice Teacher education and teacher behaviours are fore-grounded across the topics, with an emphasis on the origin and composition of teachers’ epistemological beliefs and how universities motivate change through formal teacher education. Teaching behaviours are discussed in relation to how teachers’ beliefs are related to the curricular and pedagogical choices that they make in their classrooms, assessment of learning outcomes, and classroom management practices. Front Cover 1 Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education 5 Copyright Page 6 Contents 7 List of Tables 10 List of Figures 12 Introduction 13 1. Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education: An Emerging Field of Research: Jo Brownlee, Gregory Schraw, and Donna Berthelsen 14 Part I: Preservice Teachers and Teaching 33 2. Personal Epistemology in Preservice Teacher Education: Aman Yadav, Mauricio Herron, and Ala Samarapungavan 34 3. Looking Into Mirrors: Teacher Educators’ Dilemmas in Constructing Pedagogical Understanding about their Teaching: Harm Tillema 49 4. Personal Epistemology in Higher Education: Teachers’ Beliefs and the Role of Faculty Training Programs: Helge I. Strømsø and Ivar Brålten 63 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 77 6. Personal Epistemology in Preservice Teachers: Belief Changes Throughout a Teacher Education Course: Sue Walker, Jo Brownlee, Beryl Exley, Annette Woods, and Chrystal Whiteford 93 7. Personal Epistemology Change Due to Experience? A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Preservice and Practicing Teachers: Lisa D. Bendixen and Alice J. Corkill 109 8. One Preservice Teacher’s Developing Personal Epistemology About Teaching and the Explicit Connection of Those Beliefs to Future Practice: Helenrose Fives 123 9. Personal Epistemologies and Pedagogy in Higher Education: Did We Really Mean to Say that to our Students?: Rose M. Marra and Betsy Palmer 138 Part II: Inservice Teachers and Teaching 155 10. Fostering Critical Awareness of Teachers’ Epistemological and Ontological Beliefs: Gregory Schraw, Lori Olafson, and Michelle Vanderveldt 156 11. Teachers’ Personal Epistemologies as Predictors of Support for Their Students’ Autonomy: Michael Weinstock and Guy Roth 172 12. If There is No One Right Answer?: The Epistemological Implications of Classroom Interactions: Iris Tabak and Michael Weinstock 187 13. Personal Epistemology and Ill-Defined Problem Solving in Solo and Duo Contexts: Nicos Valanides and Charoula Angeli 202 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 217 15. The Epistemic Underpinnings of Mrs. M’s Reading Lesson on Drawing Conclusions: A Classroom-Based Research Study: Floria C. Feucht 234 16. Teachers’ Scientific Epistemological Views, Conceptions of Teaching Science, and Their Approaches to Teaching Science: An Exploratory Study of InService Science Teachers in Taiwan: Min-Hsien Lee and Chin-Chung Tsai 253 Conclusion 270 17. Teachers’ Personal Epistemologies and Teacher Education: Emergent Themes and Future Research: Gregory Schraw, Joanne Brownlee, and Donna Berthelsen 271 Contributors 289 Index 297 This edited volume examines the role of personal epistemology in teaching across early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary contexts, and the implications for teacher education, incorporating the most up-to-date research and theorising in the field.