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English Teacher Ideologies: an empirical study
Author(s) -
Davies Chris
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192920180207
Subject(s) - ideology , subject (documents) , relevance (law) , variety (cybernetics) , empirical research , perspective (graphical) , dimension (graph theory) , psychology , sociology , mathematics education , social psychology , pedagogy , epistemology , politics , political science , law , philosophy , mathematics , library science , computer science , pure mathematics , artificial intelligence
Abstract This paper describes an empirical study into English teacher attitudes to a variety of issues within their subject, in order to investigate one particular hypothesis about the nature of English subject ideology variation. The paper presents an attitude questionnaire, the results of which both confirm the hypothesis, and also suggest an additional dimension of tender/tough mindedness, similar to that explored in earlier studies by Eysenck, and Oliver & Butcher. The paper emphasises the high degree of idiosyncracy evident in the teachers' responses, and concludes by suggesting a particular relevance of a subject ideology perspective to the training of new teachers.