Table 1.

Pre-service pre-primary teachers' beliefs.

Beliefs Theme	Time 1 Number of Participants that Held the Belief	Time 1 Proportion of Participants that Held the Belief (%)	Time 2 Number of Participants that Held the Belief	Time 2 Proportion of Participants that Held the Belief (%)	Time 3 Number of Participants that Held the Belief	Time 3 Proportion of Participants that Held the Belief (%)
Beliefs about learners and learning	53	88.33	22	36.67	45	75.00
Beliefs about teaching	33	55.00	34	56.67	31	51.67
Beliefs about lesson planning	0	0.00	7	11.67	2	3.33
Beliefs about classroom practices	55	91.67	40	66.67	38	63.33
Beliefs about the goals of language teaching	13	21.67	7	11.67	32	53.33
Beliefs about assessment	0	0.00	2	3.33	46	76.67
Belief about subject	12	20.00	6	10.00	9	15.00
Belief about content	15	25.00	10	16.67	8	13.33
Beliefs about pedagogical knowledge	41	68.33	42	70.00	60	100.00
Beliefs about self	5	8.33	17	28.33	0	0.00
Beliefs about the role of teaching	14	23.33	15	25.00	17	28.33
Beliefs about schooling	12	20.00	3	5.00	11	18.33
Beliefs about hearsay	8	13.33	2	3.33	1	1.67
Beliefs about self-evaluation	0	0.00	0	0.00	34	56.67
Beliefs about learning to teach	4	6.67	21	35.00	28	46.67
Beliefs about the teacher education program	3	5.00	2	3.33	2	3.33
Epistemological beliefs informed by educational literature	0	0.00	0	0.00	40	66.67
Beliefs about generalizability/transferability of research findings	0	0.00	0	0.00	10	16.67
Beliefs about research engagement	0	0.00	0	0.00	1	1.67
Beliefs about microteaching	0	0.00	16	26.67	0	0.00