Shanghai Preschool Teachers’ Developmentally Appropriate Beliefs and Practices

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201214.009How to use a DOI?

Keywords

teacher beliefs, teacher practices, curriculum reform, DAP (Developmentally Appropriate Practice)

Abstract

This quantitative study applied a survey design to examine Shanghai preschool teachers’ engagement in appropriate and inappropriate beliefs and practices of DAP. Altogether 182 respondents from 13 preschools in Shanghai completed the Teacher Beliefs and Practices Survey (three to five-year-olds) (including Teacher Beliefs Scale and Instructional Activities Scale). Findings suggested that teachers endorsed both appropriate and inappropriate beliefs and engaged in both appropriate and inappropriate practices (as defined by DAP principles), but with significantly higher levels of endorsement in appropriate (as compared to inappropriate) beliefs and engagement in appropriate (as compared to inappropriate) practices.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Bing-jie Zou
AU  - Rachelle Kisst Hackett
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/16
TI  - Shanghai Preschool Teachers’ Developmentally Appropriate Beliefs and Practices
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 6th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 54
EP  - 58
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201214.009
ID  - Zou2020
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