The International Handbook of Research on Teachers' Belief

Abstract

Like most handbooks, The International Handbook of Research on Teachers’ Belief is a hefty tome and hard to hold in one’s ‘hand’. It covers a pot pourri of ideas with few major themes other than a discussion of the lack of research methods needed to improve this area—and this theme is critical. The book has no integrating conclusion chapter, leaving readers to put the pieces together themselves. Where to next? The editors have provided a commendable introductory chapter and Skott introduces the topics, concluding that the field may be seen in crisis: ‘the key construct of the field, the one of beliefs is ill defined; its methods are acknowledged to be problematic; and the fundamental rationa..