Primary Education Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs for Teaching Geography Lessons

Autor/inn/en	Bent, Gert Jan; Bakx, Anouke; den Brok, Perry
Titel	Primary Education Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs for Teaching Geography Lessons
Quelle	In: International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 26 (2017) 2, S.150-165 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1038-2046
DOI	10.1080/10382046.2016.1235358
Schlagwörter	Self Efficacy; Geography Instruction; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Characteristics; Educational Quality; Outcomes of Education; Elementary School Teachers; Foreign Countries; Regression (Statistics); Questionnaires; Likert Scales; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; Lehrerverhalten; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Ausland; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Fragebogen; Likert-Skala; Niederlande
Abstract	This study was carried out to investigate the primary education teachers' self-efficacy regarding geography education, their beliefs regarding the classroom learning environment, and how these beliefs were related to each other and to teachers' background characteristics. Questionnaire data were collected from 489 Dutch primary school teachers. Primary education teachers displayed moderately strong self-efficacy for teaching geography. The overall results suggested that teachers believed that surface learning is relatively an important parameter of teaching geography. The study found out that support from their colleagues was considered less important by teachers in promoting geography education. Teachers' beliefs concerning geography education quality and students' attitudes and motivation were the most important predictor variables for explaining differences in teachers' self-efficacy. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01