The work of teaching and teacher development: Inside the kindergarten classrooms

The work of teaching and teacher development: Inside the kindergarten classrooms

• Li, Yuen Ling Joyce The Hong Kong Institute of Education

1999

4th OMEP(Hong Kong) International Conference: Quality Early Childhood Education: The Right of Every Child (1999: The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China)

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FG Classroom Management & Control

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Pre-Primary Education
• Post-Secondary Education

It was a classroom research study with two main purposes. First, to describe, using the information gathered during observation, some of the richness and variety of what goes on in a kindergarten classroom. Second, to search for patterns from among these events and the complex interactions of theory, practice and beliefs in order to help explain why certain teachers do one thing while others do something else. This will enable kindergarten teachers to reflect on their own practice in a way which up to now has not been possible, since there was little attention given in Hong Kong to the systematic study of teaching by observing teacher behaviour in the classroom. The research would help identify some hidden aspects of classroom culture or beliefs that affects teachers’ professional development. No claim is made that either of these in any way typical of kindergarten teaching as a whole. However, it casts light on approaches which some teachers have found appropriate in the circumstances. Moreover, it should allow those how train student teachers to bridge the gap between theory with practice by offering the means of illuminating theory with precise and detailed information about life and perception inside the kindergarten classroom.

Paper presented at the 4th OMEP(Hong Kong) International Conference: Quality Early Childhood Education: The Right of Every Child

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/96e717e6

2015-10-08