Analyzing teachers' beliefs about the desired class: A phenomenological study of the intellectual system of high school teachers

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The purpose of this study is to analyze teachers' beliefs about the desirable class. Teachers 'beliefs about a desired classroom are important in that they shape teachers' expectations, actions, and behaviors in the classroom.

The population of the study consisted of all teachers in the first and second grade of Kermanshah of these, 15 individuals were selected through purposeful sampling for in-depth interviews. Interviews were documented after audio recording and coded by Epochs method. The method of study was qualitative and phenomenological and the data were analyzed using Culizzi method.

After analyzing the data, from 152 beliefs and teaching beliefs. open source codes extracted from interviews, 32 subcategories and 3 main categories were obtained Behavioral Beliefs, Relationship Beliefs, and Teaching Beliefs.

Therefore, it can be said that teachers' beliefs about the desirable class have a wide range that is not limited to the behavior of the teacher or student and other factors such as family, teacher relationship with parents, physical structure of the class and teaching style also affect this.