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Teacher Beliefs as a Complex System: English Language Teachers in China

The volume is a practical introduction to the ways in which the teachers deal with classroom events in the context of change for researchers, teachers, administrators who wish to implement curriculum reform to EFL in schools. The author provides insights into the beliefs of Chinese teachers of Engli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zheng, Hongying
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
Series:English Language Education
Subjects:
Applied Linguistics
Language Education
Education / Curricula
Language And Languages / Study And Teaching
Curriculum Studies
Teachers / Training Of
Teaching And Teacher Education
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 4.2 Heterogeneity of the teachers’ professed beliefs about EFL teaching and learning
  • 4.3 Interactive features of the teachers’ professed beliefs
  • 4.4 Conclusion
  • 5. Interactive dynamics between EFL teachers’ beliefs and practice
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Major types of the teachers’ practices and the teachers’ beliefs in practice
  • 5.3 Analysis of the interactions between the teachers’ beliefs and practice
  • 5. 4 Dynamic features of the teachers’ beliefs
  • 5.5 Conclusion
  • 6. Adaptive dynamics between EFL teachers’ beliefs and contexts
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2Openness of the teachers’ belief systems
  • 6.3 The mechanism of adaptation of the teachers’ complex belief system
  • 6.4 Self-organisation of the teachers’ complex belief system
  • 6.5 Conclusion
  • 7. Complex features and co-adaptive mechanism of EFL teachers’ belief systems
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Heterogeneous belief systems
  • 7.3 Interactive dynamic belief systems
  • Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Aims and rationale
  • 1.2 Methodological design
  • 1.3 The significance
  • 1.4 Overview of the study
  • 2. Approaching Teachers’ beliefs from a perspective of complexity theory
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Definition of teacher beliefs
  • 2.3 Introduction to language teacher beliefs
  • 2.4 Complexity theory as a tool for understanding the relationship between beliefs, practice and contexts
  • 2.5 Theoretical framework of the study
  • 2.6 Analytical framework of the study
  • 2.7 Conclusion
  • 3. Chinese ELT context and EFL teachers
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Socio-economic contexts of Chinese educational reform
  • 3.3 Chinese educational reform in the 21st century
  • 3.4 Chinese EFL teachers’ dilemmas
  • 3.5 Chinese EFL teachers’ professional development
  • 3.6 Conclusion
  • 4. Complex features of Chinese EFL teachers’ beliefs about EFL teaching
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 7.4 Open and co-adaptive belief systems
  • 7.5 Making sense of the teachers’ belief systems: dynamic stability and self-organisation
  • 7.6 Conclusion
  • 8. Conclusion
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Theoretical implications
  • 8.3 Methodological implications
  • 8.4 Pedagogical implications
  • 8.5 Implications for further research

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