The research of Social Studies teacher''s teaching beliefs in elementary school.-----Take two the second grade of teachers for example.

• Main Authors: Kuen-Cheng Weng, 翁崑泉
• Other Authors: 侯松茂
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87002756260113684765

碩士 === 臺東師範學院 === 教育研究所 === 91 === This research was to explore the Social Studies teacher’s teaching beliefs in elementary school. There were three major goals in the research ---to explore what the different of the Social Studies teaching beliefs teachers had, and to understand the relationship between their teaching beliefs and teaching behavior, and further to explore the factors, which affected their teaching beliefs. This research used the qualitative study method, collected data from observation, interview and triangulation to summarize the results, The research takes two the second grade of Social Studies teachers in the same elementary school as the studying objects. They are lady teachers, and graduated from different level teacher school. The whole teaching process has been recorded on tapes and transcribed, and the researcher also writes reviews after classroom observation. The research was based on the Clark & Peterson theories of teacher beliefs. It took researcher more than 6 months to complete the observation of whole study. The teaching beliefs were separately from “The subject curriculum”, “Teaching”, “The teacher’s role” by researcher. There were several findings: 1. About subject, two teachers’ beliefs are not different. 2. About teaching, the teachers’ beliefs are trend to conservative and traditional, and their viewpoint some are different. 3. About the role of teacher, the teacher’s beliefs are the same. 4. The teacher’s beliefs influence the classroom and the relationship between teachers and student. 5. The teachers’ beliefs are not the same with teaching activities in school. 6. The teachers’ beliefs will change by personality, grow background, teaching experience and educational environment. At last, this research proposed six conclusions and three concrete suggestions.