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Jonsson, Anna-Carin; Beach, Dennis – Education Inquiry, 2012
This investigation concerns feedback praise (person and process praise) and how it relates to implicit theories of intelligence (entity and incremental theories) among pre-service teachers. In the first study 176 pre-service teachers participated, while in the second study 151 of such teachers participated. Two new measures, one of feedback praise…
Descriptors: Positive Reinforcement, Predictor Variables, Preservice Teachers, Intelligence
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Beach, Dennis; Player-Koro, Catarina – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2012
Two related ethnographic research projects on mathematics teacher education in Sweden are presented in this paper. They represent a response to recent policy developments that reaffirm the value of authoritative subject studies content as the central and most important component in the professional knowledge base of would-be teachers and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Scientific Research, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
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Beach, Dennis; Bagley, Carl – Oxford Review of Education, 2012
Research suggests that certain common policy presuppositions can be identified regarding teacher education programmes in advanced knowledge-based economies, most notably the relationship between formal education (schooling) and economic production, and the role of teacher education in respect to this relationship. This article draws on the work of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Role of Education, Teacher Role