The Handbook of Epistemic Cognition brings together leading work from across disciplines
to provide a comprehensive overview of an increasingly important topic: how people …

Five student teachers' professional identities, formed during their Islamic teacher education
program, were examined. Narrative methodology revealed the formation of an ambiguous …

Drawing from the discourse of practice-oriented teacher education, this book investigates
the state of pre-service teachers' practical knowledge in mainland China, providing insights …

The main aim of this study was to investigate English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers'
personal practical knowledge concerning their perceptions of effective teaching. The …

Clinical practica forms an important component in undergraduate nursing education, which
directly involves clinical nurse educators who are primarily involved in teaching student …

The recent reform in initial teacher education worldwide has brought increasing attention to
preparing teachers that can work effectively with all students, especially those who are …

This study investigated student teachers' teaching of English during the practicum with a
particular focus on the teaching of speaking in the secondary school context in Korea. A …

Descriptive understandings of what human learning is, and so normative expectations of
what teachers can and should do as educational leaders, has shifted greatly in society over …

This paper reports research on epistemological orientation (EO), a latent construct
characterizing teachers' beliefs about their content knowledge. Previous research on …

This ethngoraphic study investigates how multigrade elementary school teachers in the
central-northern mountains of Nicaragua developed and used shared societal, institutional …