TITLE:
Novice Teachers (in the Creating Process of) Forming Professional Career Thinking and Teachers Beliefs
AUTHORS:
Milon Potmesil, Stefan Chudy, Pavel Neumeister, Jitka Plischke, Richterova Bohdana
KEYWORDS:
Novice Teachers, Meaning Constitution Analyses (MCA), Teachers Beliefs, Metodological Possibilities of Meaning Constitution Analyses (MCA), Teachers Professional Career
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.2 No.11,
November
24,
2014
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to identify a
process of forming professional career thinking and teachers beliefs. The
process is creating on mapping approaches in upbringing in the process of
professional thinking of novice teachers. The primary objective of this study
is to show methodological possibilities of mapping the process of forming
professional career thinking and beliefs of future teachers in the
undergraduate training. Undergraduate training then, in relation to the nature
of the study, can be simply described as the process of transition from
education to the subjective theory of general formal representation of
knowledge based on universally shared semantic structure. The study is
conducted with the participation of 5 (small focus group) novice teachers on
Czech Republic. Novice teachers write essays on the theme “Education process of
my beliefs after a one year work on school” and write report (free literacy
form) on the questions: “What do you think education is?” “Who participates in
education?” “How does education work?” Then was the report of analyses by
Meaning Constitution Analyses (MCA) method and its software version Minerva is
based on a self-report of an examined person.