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Teachers’ Teaching Belief and Its Change in Primary and Middle Schools in China

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Since the twenty-first century, the focus of teacher research and teaching research in China has gradually shifted from detailed analysis of teachers’ overt behavior to teachers’ educational psychology and cognitive process. And the research on teachers’ beliefs and teaching beliefs has gradually developed into an important research field of the theory of curriculum and instruction, and the teacher education research is even separated from the theory of curriculum and teaching as a sub-discipline of pedagogy. After 70 years of development, the teaching belief of primary and secondary school teachers in China has formed a complete system, which is in line with todays’ international education beliefs and highlights their own characteristics. Especially after the new curriculum reform in the field of basic education in the new century, teachers’ teaching beliefs have undergone significant and overall changes. The paper analyzed the connotation of teachers’ teaching beliefs,...

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  1. Higher Education and Regional Development Research Institute, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China

    Jian Wang

  2. College of education, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China

    Cangjin Cui

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  1. WMIER, The University of Waikato WMIER, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand

    Michael A. Peters

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  1. Academy of Globalization and Education Policy, School of Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

    Tien-hui Chiang

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Wang, J., Cui, C. (2019). Teachers’ Teaching Belief and Its Change in Primary and Middle Schools in China. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Teacher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1179-6_10-1

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