Questions as beliefs: investigating teachers’ beliefs in reading through inquiry questions

Much has been written about teachers’ beliefs, including their beliefs about reading. Due to its established impact on how it affects classroom practices, teachers’ beliefs as a psychological construct is considered by some researchers as the most important in relation to teaching and teaching educa...

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Main Authors: Ma Joahna Mante-Estacio, Ruanni Tupas
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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-10-01
Series:Education Inquiry
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/20004508.2022.2123121
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description Much has been written about teachers’ beliefs, including their beliefs about reading. Due to its established impact on how it affects classroom practices, teachers’ beliefs as a psychological construct is considered by some researchers as the most important in relation to teaching and teaching education. Thus, increasingly teachers of reading have been encouraged to reflect on their teaching practices as well as beliefs about reading. However, less work has been done on investigating reading teachers’ beliefs through the lens of the questions they ask about reading itself. This paper argues that questions are constitutive of people’s beliefs about what they deem important in life or in professional practice, and are regulative acts and evidence of reflection. Thus, analysing inquiry questions or what teachers ask about reading will enable identification and description of certain beliefs held by the teachers themselves. In other words, framed within an understanding of teachers’ questions as teachers’ beliefs, through thematic analysis this paper presents six themes that reveal teachers’ beliefs related to reading instruction.
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spelling doaj-art-e3363df427544a1fa2c085ef9fce96bf2025-08-20T02:12:38ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEducation Inquiry2000-45082024-10-0115446548410.1080/20004508.2022.2123121Questions as beliefs: investigating teachers’ beliefs in reading through inquiry questionsMa Joahna Mante-Estacio0Ruanni Tupas1Department of English and Applied Linguistics, De La Salle University, Manila, PhilippinesInstitute of Education, University College London, London, UKMuch has been written about teachers’ beliefs, including their beliefs about reading. Due to its established impact on how it affects classroom practices, teachers’ beliefs as a psychological construct is considered by some researchers as the most important in relation to teaching and teaching education. Thus, increasingly teachers of reading have been encouraged to reflect on their teaching practices as well as beliefs about reading. However, less work has been done on investigating reading teachers’ beliefs through the lens of the questions they ask about reading itself. This paper argues that questions are constitutive of people’s beliefs about what they deem important in life or in professional practice, and are regulative acts and evidence of reflection. Thus, analysing inquiry questions or what teachers ask about reading will enable identification and description of certain beliefs held by the teachers themselves. In other words, framed within an understanding of teachers’ questions as teachers’ beliefs, through thematic analysis this paper presents six themes that reveal teachers’ beliefs related to reading instruction.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/20004508.2022.2123121Teachers’ beliefsteaching readingliteracy beliefs
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Questions as beliefs: investigating teachers’ beliefs in reading through inquiry questions
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teaching reading
literacy beliefs
title Questions as beliefs: investigating teachers’ beliefs in reading through inquiry questions
title_full Questions as beliefs: investigating teachers’ beliefs in reading through inquiry questions
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title_short Questions as beliefs: investigating teachers’ beliefs in reading through inquiry questions
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teaching reading
literacy beliefs
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/20004508.2022.2123121
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