This study is an extension of a previous study (Fogarty et al. 1987) that investigated student teacher stress in practice teaching for final year pre-service students in one teacher education program. Stage two set out to discover whether the patterns of stress were similar or different for subsequent third year groups and across different year levels of the one programme. To carry out the stud...

A growing body of research about personal epistemological beliefs has provided tertiary educators with evidence to inform strategies in promoting eff ective teaching and learning. Personal epistemological beliefs refer to an individual’s beliefs about the nature of knowing and knowledge and are considered to infl uence how one engages in teaching and learning experiences. Th ere has been very l...

improvement in the quality of teacher education is an issue of considerable concern to every country including iran. the challenges that student-teachers face during their education can be highly influential in this regard. consequently, the present study was an attempt to come up with a model for the factors challenging iranian efl preservice teachers using a grounded theory approach. for this...

This paper explores a collaborative strengths-based approach to investing in pre-service early childhood teacher education in the area of child protection. The doctoral research of the author, which evaluated a Strengths Approach as a cross-sector tool for implementing change in early-childhood education and in doing so researched a potential investment in improving pre-service preparation, is ...

Learner autonomy (LA) has always been a controversial issue among applied linguists. Several studies have been carried out to investigate the teachers' and learners' perceptions of learner autonomy as well as the feasibility of learner autonomy. Despite the importance of learner autonomy and the existence of several related studies, the challenges in promoting LA in Iranian institutes to the re...

We study the effects of various types of education and training on the ability of teachers to promote student achievement. Previous studies on the subject have been hampered by inadequate measures of teacher training and difficulties addressing the non-random selection of teachers to students and of teachers to training. We address these issues by estimating models that include detailed measure...

The present retrospective narrative study reported in this article explores the international teaching practicum program has become a new trend lot of university-based English as Foreign Language (EFL) teacher education programs, particularly Southeast Asian countries. This phenomenon led to high demand for EFL programs having networking which aims give more cross-cultural understanding and exp...

The focus of this research is to examine the literacy practices EFL teaching and learning in an education course from a multiliteracies multimodality perspective.A case study consisting 24 pre-service teachers 8 in-service school who were enrolled Masters Education programme at private college India selected for research. researchers describe how they designed executed aforementioned concerns u...

Interpreting changing levels of self-efficacy while improving effective teaching behaviors can be one goal of teacher education programs. Undergraduate education majors often begin their teacher education programs with high levels of self-efficacy (a belief in one’s capabilities). These levels of self-efficacy frequently decline as pre-service teachers progress through their curriculum and make...