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make mistakes.
[…] by doing and interacting with
each other in an atmosphere of trust […] shape the curriculum accor-
and acceptance, through a va- ding to their own beliefs, teach their
riety of interesting and fun activities personal values, through the implicit
for which they see the purpose. curriculum and operate their clas-
[…]through translating sentences srooms in accordance to their own
into their own language. particular definitions of teaching and
(Moon, 2005: 3). learning. Teachers are unaware that
they are doing this. They are also
Reading these beliefs gives the oppor- unable to put into words the belie-
tunity to realize how teachers think regar- fs, values and definitions that form
ding teaching children and how these ideas the base of their teaching (p. 70).
influence the way they teach their students.
In this sense, Moon (2005) sustains that Thus, teachers reflect their belie-
fs about teaching and learning in the way
[…] often we are not aware of our
they plan and organize their lessons. This
own beliefs until we hear someone
clearly shows what teachers think about
express an opinion, which we agree their pupils and what they believe is the
or disagree with. We may not be most appropriate way to help them learn.
aware of how our beliefs affect the This is in fact the intention of this work. To
way we respond to other people discover how PNIEB teachers’ perspective
or the way we do our work or the and beliefs shape the way they teach their
way we teach (p. 11).
Shinde and Karekatti (2012) coincide
with Moon’s opinion avowing that teachers
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