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标题：The ‘Voices’ of Beginning Teachers in Malaysia About Their Conceptions of Competency: A Phenomenographic Investigation
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作者：Goh, Pauline Swee Choo ; Saad, Noor Shah ; Wong, Kung Teck 等
期刊名称：Australian Journal of Teacher Education
印刷版ISSN：1835-517X
出版年度：2012
卷号：37
期号：7
页码：5
出版社：Edith Cowan University
摘要：This study gave ‘voice’ to 18 beginning teachers in Malaysia about their own teaching competences within their teaching profession through a phenomenographic investigation. The aim of the study was to discover what beginning teachers themselves conceive as competence in relation to what they did everyday as teachers. These beginning teachers were interviewed and the transcripts analysed to reveal how they conceived the phenomenon of competence. The results showed that beginning teachers’ conceptions of competence fell into five qualitatively different categories: (i) classroom and behaviour management, (ii) knowing subject matter, (iii) reaching out for assistance and support, (iv) understanding students and (v) possessing values of professionalism. This study could serve as a platform to further extend beginning teachers’ understandings of the teacher profession, and to provide them more possibilities to extend their competences to enable them to continuously develop and create opportunities for their own students.
关键词：Teacher education; Malaysian beginning teachers; Conceptions; Competency; Phenomenography.