This article reports on teachers’ beliefs about teaching and the implications of these beliefs in the teaching of Social Studies. A case study design was adopted using a beliefs tool that was administered to a sample of 21 Social Studies teachers in junior secondary schools and five in-service Social Studies teachers enrolled at the national university. Data were analyzed against the Luft and Roehrig (2007) belief categories and the South African Norms and Standards for teaching. The findings showed that teachers have different beliefs about teaching: as a knowledge-based profession and as a community, citizenship, and pastoral responsibility.

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社会研究教师对教学信念的本质

本文报告了教师对教学的信念以及这些信念对社会研究教学的影响。案例研究设计采用了一种信念工具，该工具对 21 名初中社会研究教师和 5 名在国立大学注册的在职社会研究教师进行了抽样调查。根据 Luft 和 Roehrig (2007) 信仰类别以及南非教学规范和标准对数据进行了分析。研究结果表明，教师对教学有不同的信念：作为一种以知识为基础的职业，作为一种社区、公民和教牧责任。