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Article: Value orientations of preservice teachers.
- Article from:
- Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
- Article date:
- September 1, 1995
- Author:
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Curriculum theorists have acknowledged the critical role that beliefs and values play in the decisions that teachers make, but very little known about how teachers' value profiles develop. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the educational value orientations of a group of physical education preservice teachers (N = 16) enrolled in an elementary methods course and to investigate the link between value profiles and teacher behaviors. Value profiles were assessed using the Value Orientation Inventory (Ennis & Hooper, 1988). The results indicated that teachers in training entered field-based experiences with defined value profiles, but that these profiles were ...