This chapter presents results of researches on teacher education and its contemporary outlines and challenges. It brings together data from bibliographic reviews, documental analyses and empirical studies conducted by the ...

This research discusses values shared by teachers of basic education in the practice of the profession, taking them as responsible for the connection between the constructs individual attitudes and social structure that ...

The axiological dimension has been considered an important educational content, especially to treat certain themes, such as environmental issues. This dimension, then, gets evident in the environmental issues when what is ...

This paper estimates teacher value-added measures of teacher quality in Chile. Using administrative data we link individual student test score results to teacher assignment for 6th and 8th grade students, and control for ...

This work deals with the theme: the building values in kindergarten. Aimed to verify the values in pedagogical practices of teachers of early childhood education, and the relationship between these values and the values ...

© 2014 by Psykhe.This paper aims to contribute to the discussion about teacher quality in Chile through two approaches: (a) one based on estimates of the value added by teachers or teacher effect on students' learning, ...

Studying EFL teacher effectiveness has been a constant issue in the last decade. These investigations focused on teachers’ and education administrators’ perceptions. Most of them were conducted in countries different from ...

Currently, teacher's authority rests not only in the school; it also needs to be built by the teacher and recognized by their students. The present study aims to characterize the teachers with more authority, based on the ...

This monograph reports on a study that investigated the following: 1) experienced teachers' perceptions of the value of the present teachers' college programme, 2) how newly trained teachers are socialized into the school ...