Impact on student teachers' conception of learning and teaching from studying a course in educational psychology

The Educational Approaches of Turkish Pre-Service Elementary Mathematics Teachers in Their First Teaching Practices: Traditional or Constructivist?

“…In line with previous research findings (Ahlstrand & Nilsson 1999;Aldrich and Thomas, 2005;Gibbs and Coffey, 2004;Klein, 1998;Krull, et al, 2013;Struyven et al, 2010), a small portion of PTs considered that the university education was influential in the tendency towards using constructivist approaches to some extent. However, this positive effect on teachers' beliefs may not always translate into classroom use (Rafferty, 1992).…”

“…Various studies address the effect of teacher training courses (e.g., in educational psychology or child development) on the approaches that PTs adopt, and most suggest that proper training will help develop constructivist attitudes (Aldrich & Thomas, 2005;Gibbs & Coffey, 2004;Klein, 1998;Krull, Koni, & Oras, 2013;Struyven et al, 2010). In general, these studies use self-reporting instruments to obtain PTs' opinions after their training; however, the issues that they largely overlook are the extent to which PTs are able to integrate the approaches and beliefs acquired by means of these courses into their TPs, andif they fail to integrate them-the factors that cause this failure.…”

Using metaphors to know the conceptions about the teaching profession in initial teacher education

“…This result must, without a doubt, spark reflection among teacher educators regarding the need to explicitly mention this element during teacher training. These results concur with those obtained by Krull, Koni and Oras (2013), who didn't find the conception of teaching to evolve towards a socioconstructivist outlook throughout initial teacher training. Sumsion (2003) suggests that the training curriculum itself could help perpetuate discourses and social conceptions regarding the figure of teachers.…”

“…These results concur with the findings by Akar and Yildirin (2009) in their research on aspiring teachers: before the implementation of training based on constructivist learning environments, aspiring teachers chose metaphors related to leadership and control, adopting a disciplinarian position; however, after the exposure to such learning environments, they included messages of cooperation and sensitization towards individual differences. This evolution, from a transmissive conception of teaching to a more constructivist conception, has also been identified in other studies (Leavy, McSorley and Boté, 2007;Seung, Park and Narayan, 2011;Tannehill and MacPhail, 2012;Krull, Koni and Oras, 2013).…”

Examining Mathematics Pre-service Teachers’ Experiences of School Practicum

“…Various studies address the effect of teacher training courses on the approaches that PTs adopt, and most suggest that proper training will help develop constructivist attitudes (Baştürk, 2009;Erdem & Erdoğan, 2012;Krull, Koni, & Oras, 2013). In general, these studies use self-reporting instruments to obtain PTs" opinions after their training; however, the issues that they largely overlook are the extent to which PTs are able to integrate the approaches and beliefs acquired by means of these courses into their teaching practice (Doruk, 2014).…”