This article provides an overview of the Trinidad and Tobago component of the MUSTER (Multi-site Teacher Education Research) Project, and discusses some of the findings of two of the sub-projects: The Teaching Practice ...

Continuing professional development (CPD) is considered essential for teachers and teacher educators to improve their practice. Models of CPD, such as those that involve action research, which respond to the local needs ...

Teacher efficacy is largely unexplored in Trinidad and Tobago, resulting in a deficit in understanding of teachers' beliefs about their ability to teach. This is important since teachers' beliefs influence how they feel ...

This work focuses on the training of physical education teachers in the Supervised Teaching Practice. It aims to understand the knowledges that are mobilized in the Supervised Teaching Practice. The qualitative research, ...

According to Altbach and Kelly (1978), the aim of the colonizer was to create schools to fit people into their world-creating an estrangement from their culture and heritage and reinforcing European traditions. This study ...

Action research methodology is commonly used in initial teacher education programmes as a pedagogical strategy to enhance student teacher learning. Action research is most often used in tandem with school-based practicum ...

Action research is characteristically used to provide research experience for late-stage, pre-service teachers as a means of breaching the perceived divide between theoretical knowledge and contexts of practice. However, ...