Published: 2020-05-28

Dimensions of the early education teacher’s professionalism in the students’ common beliefs

Ewa Kochanowska
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Topic
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2020.1.08

Abstract

New challenges generated for teacher education in the context of dynamic changes in socio-cultural and technological reality are putting the issues of the teacher's professionalism in a new light. The purpose of this study is an attempt to reconstruct ways of understanding the professionalism of an early education teacher and its dimensions from the perspective of pre-service teachers. The concept of research is based on the assumption that starting education by reconstructing the common beliefs of the candidates for teachers about selected areas of education plays a key role in the constructivist-oriented teacher education. Revealing ways to conceptualize and assess the professionalism of early education teachers by those who begin pedagogical studies allows for planning ways of using their common knowledge on this subject and to predict directions of their studies. The text is based on a qualitative analysis of written statements by students starting studies in the area of pre-school and early school education. Obtained research results that indicate a dominating perception of the professionalism of the teacher working with children at the early school age allow to determine the necessary directions of changes in the education of future teachers. This perception visible in teachers’ statements are instrumental, “closed” and based on a selected teaching paradigm.

Keywords:

teacher’s professionalism; early school education; common beliefs; candidates for teachers

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Kochanowska, E. (2020). Dimensions of the early education teacher’s professionalism in the students’ common beliefs. Pedagogical Forum, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2020.1.08

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