Education Reform and Teachers Belief

Some papers that relates to this focus are:

1. Mathematics Teachers’ Beliefs and Curriculum Reform by Boris Handal & Anthony Herrington, Mathematics Education Research Journal,
2003, Vol. 15, No. 1, 59-69
Abstract

This paper discusses the role of mathematics teachers’ beliefs and their impact on
curriculum reform. It is argued that teachers’ beliefs about the teaching and
learning mathematics are critical in determining the pace of curriculum reform.
Educational change is a complex process in which teachers hold strong beliefs
about the quality and the process of innovation. Curriculum implementation may
only occur through sufferance as many teachers are suspicious of reform in
mathematics education given its equivocal success over the past decades.

Many teachers, when they come to enact the curriculum in
their classes, rely more on their own beliefs than on current trends in pedagogy.
These beliefs, conservative as they might be, have their own rationality in the
practical and daily nature of the teaching profession, and in the compelling
influence of educational systems from which these teachers are paradoxically the social product.

Many of these teachers hold behaviourist beliefs, a fact that has strong implications for the success of constructivist-oriented curriculum reform.

In general, studies of teachers’ pedagogical beliefs reveal the extreme complexity of bringing about educational change, and largely explains the failure of many past reform endeavours

Free resources

1. Lessonplan online www
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/

2. Some interesting lessonplan related to elementary mathematics activities-
http://mathmusings.blogspot.com/

3. Mathematical formulaes

http://mathematic-formula.blogspot.com/

4. Onother my favorite link

http://mathedresearch.blogspot.com

My favourite reading places

These are some of the website I usually go to find interesting materials to read.

http://www.kesturi.net/ MALAY ISSUES DISCUSSED ACADEMICALLY
http://www.iejme.com/ Electronic International Jorunal of Mathematics Education

http://www.jrre.psu.edu/index.html Journal of Research in Rural Education- Penn State University
http://www.tlainc.com/issue1.htm Journal of Knowledge Management
http://www.academic-conferences.org/ejournals.htm Academic publishing