This study examined the patterns of Taiwanese early childhood preservice teachers' professional beliefs about teaching and learning. The instrument included six open-ended questions that examined preservice teachers' perceptions of their roles as teachers, of ways that children learn, and of their relationships with children. Participants were 298…

This study is a collaborative teaching/learning pedagogy that offers an alternative teaching approach to curriculum development for early childhood education in an effort to explore how to best teach a child in English language arts classroom. This study, based on Gardner's Multiple Intelligences theory and Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development…

Used content analysis and grounded theory methods to examine professional beliefs about teaching and learning among 298 Taiwanese early childhood preservice teachers. Found that beliefs can be organized systematically to construct useful patterns of interrelationships among belief components, such as teachers' roles, images of classroom practice,…