Annotated Bibliography

In junction with my group, here is one of our articles we have selected.

The article can be found at http://www.jstor.org/pss/3447619 and it's titled

"Conceptions of Teaching Held by Academic Teachers."


What I got from this article was the sense that there are many different conceptions of learning and teaching. There are many different "theories" that teachers use to help children understand what they are teaching. No one is really to say which one works, and which doesn't but the article explores some conceptions of teaching and what they mean to teachers. I thought this would work in our project when we interview our teachers to see what they think about the "dimensions" of these theories and how they can/can't help reach the goals in "The Portrait of a Teacher." The study done in this article basically dives into what teaching in perceived as and what teachers really experience and think of teaching and its definition.