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This paper examines recent and current research into teacher training/pedagogy in higher education, and provides an overview of the existing studies into the concept’s effectiveness. This examination is based on ‘teacher beliefs’ studies conducted in the literature in relation to teacher training/pedagogy programmes, and thus only draws conclusions according to those studies. The present paper highlights important factors of certain training/pedagogy programmes around the world, such as their duration, content and philosophy, as well as their context-bound nature, and discusses why such factors have resulted in research in this area remaining inconclusive. Links are also made to the field of EFL, where research on the effectiveness of teacher training/pedagogy is lacking and immature. Areas and aspects which require more research are also addressed, and suggestions are made for future research.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• teacher training, pedagogy, teacher beliefs, teacher training programmes, EFL

A Review of Research on the Effects of Teaching Pedagogy: Controversies in the Area

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Bu çalışma yüksek öğretimde öğretmen eğitimi/pedagojisi alanındaki yakın geçmişte ve günümüzde yapılan araştırmaları incelemekte ve öğretmen eğitimi/pedagojisi etkileri ile alakalı olan yapılmış çalışmalara genel bir bakış yapmaktadır. Bu inceleme literatürde adı geçen ‘öğretmen inançları’ çalışmaları baz alınarak yapılmış ve bu çalışmalar doğrultusunda yorumlanmıştır. Bu çalışma dünyada var olan öğretmen eğitimi/pedagojisi programları ile alakalı olan süre, içerik ve filozofi, ve programa özgü faktörleri öne çıkarmakta ve bu faktörülerin öğretmen eğitimi/pedagojisi alanındaki araştırmaları nasıl sonuçsuz kıldığını tartışmaktadır. Buna ilaveten, mevcut çalışma, İngilizceyi Yabancı Dil olarak Öğretme alanındaki öğretmen eğitimi/pedagojisi’nin etkileri ile ilgili olan az sayıdaki ve henüz ş ekillenmemis olan çalışmalara atıflar yapmaktadır. Daha fazla araştırma gereken alanlar ve konular saptanmış ve belirtilmiş, ileride yapılacak olan araştırmalar için tavsiyeler yapılmıştır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Öğretmen eğitimi ve yetiştirmesi, pedagoji, öğretmen inançları, öğretmen yetiştirme/pedagoji programları

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33. Dr. Emre Debreli received his MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the University of Essex and his PhD in Education at the University of Reading. He is currently a lecturer at the European University of Lefke, Faculty of Education, English Language Teaching Department. His area of expertise includes teacher education and teacher training. Dr. Emre Debreli Yüksek Lisans eğitimini İngilizceyi Yabancı Dil olarak Öğretme alanında Essex Üniversitesinde tamamlamıştır. Doktora derecesini Reading Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri alanında tamamlamıştır. Dr. Emre Debreli halen Lefke Avrupa Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi, İngilizce Öğretmenliği bölümünde öğretim görevlisi olarak çalışmaktadır. Dr. Debreli’nin uzmanlık alanları öğretmen eğitimi ve yetiştirmesidir.