International Handbook of Research on Teachers' Beliefs

Abstract

Chapter 1. Introduction. Section One. Foundations of Teachers' Beliefs Research. Chapter 2. The Promises, Problems, and Prospects of Research on Teachers' Beliefs. Chapter 3. Historical Overview and Theoretical Perspectives of Research on Teachers' Beliefs. Chapter 4. The Development of Teachers' Beliefs. Chapter 5. The Relationship between Teachers' Beliefs and Teachers' Practices. Section Two. Studying Teachers' Beliefs. Chapter 6. Assessing Teachers' Beliefs: Challenges and Solutions. Chapter 7. Measuring Teachers' Beliefs: For What Purpose? Chapter 8. Qualitative Approaches to Studying Teachers' Beliefs. Chapter 9. Methods for Studying Beliefs: Teacher Writing, Scenarios, and Metaphor Analysis. Section Three. Teachers' Identity, Motivation, and Affect. Chapter 10. The Intersection of Identity, Beliefs, and Politics in Conceptualizing `Teacher Identity'. Chapter 11. A Motivational Analysis of Teacher Beliefs. Chapter 12. The Career Development of Preservice and Inservice Teachers: Why Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs Matter. Chapter 13. A Hot Mess: Unpacking the Relation between Teachers' Beliefs and Emotions. Section Four. Contexts and Teachers' Beliefs. Chapter 14. Teachers' Beliefs about Teaching (and Learning). Chapter 15. Teachers' Instructional Beliefs and the Classroom Climate: Connections and Conundrums. Chapter 16. Teachers' Beliefs about Assessment. Chapter 17. Context Matters: The Influence of Collective Beliefs and Shared Norms. Section 5. Teachers' Beliefs about Knowing and Teaching within Academic Domains. Chapter 18. Personal Epistemologies and Teaching. Chapter 19. The Individual, the Context and Practice: A Review of the Research on Teachers' Beliefs Related to Mathematics. Chapter 20. Beliefs about Reading, Text, and Learning from Text. Chapter 21. Science Teachers' Beliefs: Perceptions of Efficacy and the Nature of Scientific Knowledge and Knowing. Chapter 22. Teachers' Beliefs about Social Studies. Chapter 23. Teacher Beliefs and Uses of Technology to Support 21st Century Teaching and Learning. Section Six. Teachers' Beliefs about Learners. Chapter 24. Preschool Teachers' Ideas about How Children Learn Best: An Examination of Beliefs about the Principles of Developmentally Appropriate Practice. Chapter 25. Teachers' Beliefs about Cultural Diversity: Problems and Possibilities. Chapter 26. Teachers' Beliefs about English Language Learners. Chapter 27. Teachers' Beliefs about Students with Special Needs and Inclusion.