Teacher centred teacher education

Teacher centred teacher education is conceived as an approach which focuses on the student/beginning teachers'' mental lives their concerns and beliefs. This approach seeks to analyse first this hidden side of teaching by employing quantitative and qualitative research methods. To this end this book offers a detailed research design which can be used in all teacher education contexts. It also reports the results of the research conducted in the context of pre-service teacher education for EFL (English as a Foreign Language) student teachers. Teacher centred teacher education can be valid only if the assumptions made about the teachers'' concerns and beliefs about teaching are research based. In this light this book offers a detailed template for the analysis and interpretation of the research findings and sugggestions about how to modify teacher education curricula and methods to address the student teachers'' needs.