Προσωπικές θεωρίες υποψήφιων και υπηρετούντων εκπαιδευτικών : θεωρητικοί προβληματισμοί και ερευνητικά δεδομένα.

Περίληψη

Teachers’ personal theories, is an important issue in Teacher Education. Re¬search findings into the teachers’ beliefs, appear to have reached consensus on several issues: students enter teacher education programs with pre¬existing beliefs based on their experience as school students, these beliefs are robust and resistant to change and act as filters allowing in or filtering out new knowledge. Our research project conducted on 392 primary educa¬tion teachers and 99 teacher candidates, is based on the assumption that not only on everyday educational matters (such as teaching methods, classroom management, etc.) but even on more theoretical issues(such as functions of school), teachers’ personal theories derived mostly from three major peda¬gogical “Paradigms”: a)Traditionalism, b) Progressivism-Pragmatism and c) Critical Theory. To what concerns our findings is important to underline that certain differences were found in beliefs and attitudes that teachers hold, de¬pending on three specific factors: age, years of teaching experience and the sex of the participants.