Abstract
The major aim of the present study is to investigate undergraduate trainee teachers' perspectives of a taught class in relation to their images of teaching, teachers and children. Twenty-eight trainee teachers, who are majoring in Education, reported their impressions of a videotaped math class, paying special attention to the good and bad points concerning teaching. The relationship between these impressions and the trainee teachers' images of teaching, teachers and children were examined. Major findings are: (1) the trainee teachers mainly focused on "the construction/structure of the class under discussion", and generally made negative comments about it, (2) the trainee teachers made favorable observations concerning "the teaching materials" or "the construction/structure of the whole teaching unit" in the textbook used for the class, (3) negative and more realistic images such as the images of teachers as "authoritarian" are related with trainee teachers' favorable perspectives, and (4) positive images such as the images of teachers as "supporters", negatively influence the trainee teachers' perspectives. The relationship between practice teaching experience and the trainee teachers' observation perspectives are also discussed, and some pedagogical implications are considered and suggested.
