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Epistemological And Pedagogical Beliefs Of Pre-Service And In-Service Teachers In A Tanzanian Context, Michael B. Msendekwa Mar 2015

Epistemological And Pedagogical Beliefs Of Pre-Service And In-Service Teachers In A Tanzanian Context, Michael B. Msendekwa

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This study investigated the epistemological and pedagogical beliefs of pre-service and in-service teachers working toward a degree in education at a university in Tanzania. A total of 702 pre-service and in-service teachers from year one and three participated in the study. The Teaching and Learning Conception Questionnaire (Chan & Elliott, 2004b; Lee, Zhang, Song, & Huang 2013) was used to measure student-teachers’ pedagogical beliefs, and the Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire (Chan & Elliott, 2000, 2004b; Lee, Zhang, Song, & Huang, 2013) to measure their epistemological beliefs.

Factor analysis of data from the Teaching and Learning Conception Questionnaire resulted in a …