Students’ beliefs about teaching and learning knowledge acquisition: Project report

This project covers both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. The study is focused on: a) our BEd students' epistemological beliefs about learning and teaching; b) their beliefs when they enter out four-year BEd programmes and what are these beliefs attributable to; c) if there are any changes in these beliefs as our students progress through the four-year BEd programmes; d) if there are changes, what the changes might be attributable to; including the role FE experience plays in any changes; and e) the relationship between student teachers' beliefs and actual teaching in the classroom. Copyright © 2011 The Hong Kong Institute of Education.