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Preservice Teachers' Belief Change Represented as Constructivist Profile Change  

Kwak, Young-Sun (Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.23, no.3, 2002 , pp. 242-258 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigated preservice teachers' understandings of the ontology and epistemology underlying constructivist notions of teaming. Throughout this study, the epistemological, ontological, and pedagogical characteristics for each teacher's developing views of learning were identified through four in-depth interviews. Data from interviews were used to create three profiles containing ontological beliefs, epistemological commitments and pedagogical beliefs. This study has demonstrated that the notion of a constructivist profile change has significant potential for informing the analysis and description of preservice teachers' beliefs changes. Major findings include: constructivist profile changes overtime, diversification of profile components over time, features of the teachers' pedagogical belief profile changes, and teachers' unawareness of their profiles. However, changes in ontological beliefs and epistemological commitments were not easy, nor were they easily internalized for these teachers. The implications of this research are that preservice teachers should be aware of coexisting different categories of their learning-to-teach profiles, and that teacher educators should provide these preservice teachers with instruction designed to change preservice teachers' profiles towards increasing constructivist views of teaching and learning and restricting other undesirable categories.
Keywords
conceptual change; constructivist profile; ontological beliefs; epistemological beliefs; pedagogical beliefs; constructivist teacher education program;
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