Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education

The text provides a platform for cutting-edge theory and research about how personal epistemology can be applied to the context of teacher education, thereby making explicit the connection between personal epistemology and teaching and students' learning outcomes.
Topics include:
Cultural differences in teacher epistemology and the impact on students' learning
Teachers' epistemological beliefs and inclusion
Teachers' epistemology and reading lessons, citizenship education, and teaching science
Epistemology in a social context
Teachers' epistemological beliefs and student autonomy
Teacher education and analysis of preservice and practicing teachers
Implications of teachers' epistemological beliefs
Connections to future practice
Teacher education and teacher behaviours are fore-grounded across the topics, with an emphasis on the origin and composition of teachers' epistemological beliefs and how universities motivate change through formal teacher education. Teaching behaviours are discussed in relation to how teachers' beliefs are related to the curricular and pedagogical choices that they make in their classrooms, assessment of learning outcomes, and classroom management practices.