Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 9-1-2018
Publication Title
Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association
Volume
29
Issue
2
First page number:
1
Last page number:
17
Abstract
For many years, teacher education has focused on the centrality of the learner in the educational process. This study examined how preservice teachers’ beliefs regarding children changed over the course of a teacher education program. It also examined the role of personality indicators in that change. Preservice social studies teachers were administered surveys in each year of a teacher education program to assess participants’ beliefs towards children and their personality type. Participants’ beliefs about children became more child-centered and personality type was a predictor of these beliefs.
Keywords
Teacher beliefs; Teacher preperation; Teacher personality; Longitudinal analysis
Disciplines
Educational Psychology
File Format
File Size
243 KB
Language
English
Repository Citation
Wiens, P. D.
(2018).
Changes in Beliefs towards Children, Personality, and Future Social Studies Teachers: An Analysis of Survey Data.
Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association, 29(2),
1-17.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/tl_fac_articles/239