Re Examining Pedagogical Content Knowledge In Science Education

Author : Amanda Berry,Patricia Friedrichsen,John Loughran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317564652

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Re-examining Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Science Education by Amanda Berry,Patricia Friedrichsen,John Loughran Pdf

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) has been adapted, adopted, and taken up in a diversity of ways in science education since the concept was introduced in the mid-1980s. Now that it is so well embedded within the language of teaching and learning, research and knowledge about the construct needs to be more useable and applicable to the work of science teachers, especially so in these times when standards and other measures are being used to define their knowledge, skills, and abilities. Re-examining Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Science Education is organized around three themes: Re-examining PCK: Issues, ideas and development; Research developments and trajectories; Emerging themes in PCK research. Featuring the most up-to-date work from leading PCK scholars in science education across the globe, this volume maps where PCK has been, where it is going, and how it now informs and enhances knowledge of science teachers’ professional knowledge. It illustrates how the PCK research agenda has developed and can make a difference to teachers’ practice and students’ learning of science.

Author : Julie Gess-Newsome,Norman G. Lederman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780306472176

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Examining Pedagogical Content Knowledge by Julie Gess-Newsome,Norman G. Lederman Pdf

This ambitious text is the first of its kind to summarize the theory, research, and practice related to pedagogical content knowledge. The audience is provided with a functional understanding of the basic tenets of the construct as well as its applications to research on science teacher education and the development of science teacher education programs.

Author : Amanda Berry,Patricia Friedrichsen,John Loughran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317564645

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Re-examining Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Science Education by Amanda Berry,Patricia Friedrichsen,John Loughran Pdf

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) has been adapted, adopted, and taken up in a diversity of ways in science education since the concept was introduced in the mid-1980s. Now that it is so well embedded within the language of teaching and learning, research and knowledge about the construct needs to be more useable and applicable to the work of science teachers, especially so in these times when standards and other measures are being used to define their knowledge, skills, and abilities. Re-examining Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Science Education is organized around three themes: Re-examining PCK: Issues, ideas and development; Research developments and trajectories; Emerging themes in PCK research. Featuring the most up-to-date work from leading PCK scholars in science education across the globe, this volume maps where PCK has been, where it is going, and how it now informs and enhances knowledge of science teachers’ professional knowledge. It illustrates how the PCK research agenda has developed and can make a difference to teachers’ practice and students’ learning of science.

Author : Stephen Miles Uzzo,Sherryl Browne Graves,Erin Shay,Marisa Harford,Robert Thompson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319974750

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Pedagogical Content Knowledge in STEM by Stephen Miles Uzzo,Sherryl Browne Graves,Erin Shay,Marisa Harford,Robert Thompson Pdf

This volume represents both recent research in pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), as well as emerging innovations in how PCK is applied in practice. The notion of “research to practice” is critical to validating how effectively PCK works within the clinic and how it can be used to improve STEM learning. ​As the need for more effective educational approaches in STEM grows, the importance of developing, identifying, and validating effective practices and practitioner competencies are needed. This book covers a wide range of topics in PCK in different school levels (middle school, college teacher training, teacher professional development), and different environments (museums, rural). The contributors believe that vital to successful STEM education practice is recognition that STEM domains require both specialized domain knowledge as well as specialized pedagogical approaches. The authors of this work were chosen because of their extensive fieldwork in PCK research and practice, making this volume valuable to furthering how PCK is used to enlighten the understanding of learning, as well as providing practical instruction. This text helps STEM practitioners, researchers, and decision-makers further their interest in more effective STEM education practice, and raises new questions about STEM learning.

Author : Anne Hume,Rebecca Cooper,Andreas Borowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811358982

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Repositioning Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Teachers’ Knowledge for Teaching Science by Anne Hume,Rebecca Cooper,Andreas Borowski Pdf

This book enhances readers’ understanding of science teachers’ professional knowledge, and illustrates how the Pedagogical Content Knowledge research agenda can make a difference in teachers’ practices and how students learn science. Importantly, it offers an updated international perspective on the evolving nature of Pedagogical Content Knowledge and how it is shaping research and teacher education agendas for science teaching. The first few chapters background and introduce a new model known as the Refined Consensus Model (RCM) of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) in science education, and clarify and demonstrate its use in research and teacher education and practice. Subsequent chapters show how this new consensus model of PCK in science education is strongly connected with empirical data of varying nature, contains a tailored language to describe the nature of PCK in science education, and can be used as a framework for illuminating past studies and informing the design of future PCK studies in science education. By presenting and discussing the RCM of PCK within a variety of science education contexts, the book makes the model significantly more applicable to teachers’ work.

Author : J. John Loughran,Amanda Berry,Pamala Mulhall
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087903657

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Understanding and Developing Science Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge by J. John Loughran,Amanda Berry,Pamala Mulhall Pdf

There has been a growing interest in the notion of a scholarship of teaching. Such scholarship is displayed through a teacher’s grasp of, and response to, the relationships between knowledge of content, teaching and learning in ways that attest to practice as being complex and interwoven. Yet attempting to capture teachers’ professional knowledge is difficult because the critical links between practice and knowledge, for many teachers, is tacit. Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) offers one way of capturing, articulating and portraying an aspect of the scholarship of teaching and, in this case, the scholarship of science teaching. The research underpinning the approach developed by Loughran, Berry and Mulhall offers access to the development of the professional knowledge of science teaching in a form that offers new ways of sharing and disseminating this knowledge. Through this Resource Folio approach (comprising CoRe and PaP-eRs) a recognition of the value of the specialist knowledge and skills of science teaching is not only highlighted, but also enhanced. The CoRe and PaP-eRs methodology offers an exciting new way of capturing and portraying science teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge so that it might be better understood and valued within the profession. This book is a concrete example of the nature of scholarship in science teaching that is meaningful, useful and immediately applicable in the work of all science teachers (preservice, in-service and science teacher educators). It is an excellent resource for science teachers as well as a guiding text for teacher education.

Author : Andrej Brodnik,Françoise Tort
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319467474

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Informatics in Schools: Improvement of Informatics Knowledge and Perception by Andrej Brodnik,Françoise Tort Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2016, held in Münster, Germany, in October 2015. The 17 full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The focus of the conference was on following topics: sustainable education in informatics for pupils of all ages; connecting informatics lessons to the students’ everyday lives; teacher education in informatics or computer science; and research on informatics or computer science in schools (empirical/qualitative/quantitative/theory building/research methods/comparative studies/transferability of methods and results from other disciplines).

Author : J. John Loughran,Amanda Berry,Pamala Mulhall
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460918216

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Understanding and Developing Science Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge by J. John Loughran,Amanda Berry,Pamala Mulhall Pdf

There has been a growing interest in the notion of a scholarship of teaching. Such scholarship is displayed through a teacher’s grasp of, and response to, the relationships between knowledge of content, teaching and learning in ways that attest to practice as being complex and interwoven. Yet attempting to capture teachers’ professional knowledge is difficult because the critical links between practice and knowledge, for many teachers, is tacit.

Author : Roland M. Schulz
Publisher : IAP
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623967161

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Rethinking Science Education by Roland M. Schulz Pdf

This book presents a “philosophy of science education” as a research field as well as its value for curriculum, instruction and teacher pedagogy. It seeks to re-think science education as an educational endeavour by examining why past reform efforts have been only partially successful, including why the fundamental goal of achieving scientific literacy after several “reform waves” has proven to be so elusive. The identity of such a philosophy is first defined in relation to the fields of philosophy, philosophy of science, and philosophy of education. It argues that educational theory can support teacher’s pedagogical content knowledge and that history, philosophy and sociology of science should inform and influence pedagogy. Some case studies are provided which examine the nature of science and the nature of language to illustrate why and how a philosophy of science education contributes to science education reform. It seeks to contribute in general to the improvement of curriculum design and science teacher education. The perspective to be taken on board is that to teach science is to have a philosophical frame of mind—about the subject, about education, about one’s personal teacher identity.

Author : David Heywood,Joan Parker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402052712

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The Pedagogy of Physical Science by David Heywood,Joan Parker Pdf

In the science classroom, there are some ideas that are as difficult for young students to grasp as they are for teachers to explain. Forces, electricity, light, and basic astronomy are all examples of conceptual domains that come into this category. How should a teacher teach them? The authors of this monograph reject the traditional separation of subject and pedagogic knowledge. They believe that to develop effective teaching for meaningful learning in science, we must identify how teachers themselves interpret difficult ideas in science and, in particular, what supports their own learning in coming to a professional understanding of how to teach science concepts to young children. To do so, they analyzed trainee and practising teachers’ responses to engaging with difficult ideas when learning science in higher education settings. The text demonstrates how professional insight emerges as teachers identify the elements that supported their understanding during their own learning. In this paradigm, professional awareness derives from the practitioner interrogating their own learning and identifying implications for their teaching of science. The book draws on a significant body of critically analysed empirical evidence collated and documented over a five-year period involving large numbers of trainee and practising teachers. It concludes that it is essential to ‘problematize’ subject knowledge, both for learner and teacher. The book’s theoretical perspective draws on the field of cognitive psychology in learning. In particular, the role of metacognition and cognitive conflict in learning are examined and subsequently applied in a range of contexts. The work offers a unique and refreshing approach in addressing the important professional dimension of supporting teacher understanding of pedagogy and critically examines assumptions in contemporary debates about constructivism in science education.

Author : Shamin Padalkar,Taylor & Francis Group,Mythili Ramchand,Rafikh Shaikh,Indira Vijaysimha
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367485923

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Science Education by Shamin Padalkar,Taylor & Francis Group,Mythili Ramchand,Rafikh Shaikh,Indira Vijaysimha Pdf

The book presents key perspectives on teaching and learning of science in India. It offers adaptive expertise to teachers and educators through a pedagogic content knowledge (PCK) approach. Using cases and episodes from Indian science classrooms to contextualize ideas and practices, the volume discusses the nature of science, and aspects of assessments and evaluations for both process skills and conceptual understanding of the subject. It examines the significance of science education at school level and focuses on meaningful learning and development of scientific and technological aptitude. The chapters deal with topics from physics, chemistry and biology, at the middle- and secondary-school levels, and are designed to equip student-teachers with theoretical and practical knowledge abilities about science, science learning, and teaching. The book draws extensively from research on science education and teacher education, and shifts away from knowledge transmission to the active process of constructivist teaching-learning practices. The authors use illustrative examples to highlight flexible planning for inclusive classrooms. Based on studies on cognitive and developmental psychology, pedagogical content knowledge of science, socio-cultural approaches to learning science, and the history and philosophy of science, the book promotes an understanding of science characterized by empirical criteria, logical arguments and sceptical reviews. With its accessible style, examples, exercises and additional references, it will be useful for students and teachers of science, science educators, B.Ed. and M.Ed. programmes for education, secondary and higher secondary school teachers, curriculum designers and developers of science. It will interest research institutes, non-governmental organizations, professionals, and public and private sector bodies involved in science outreach, science education, and teaching and learning practices.

Author : Nasser Mansour,Rupert Wegerif
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400745636

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Science Education for Diversity by Nasser Mansour,Rupert Wegerif Pdf

Reflecting the very latest theory on diversity issues in science education, including new dialogic approaches, this volume explores the subject from a range of perspectives and draws on studies from around the world. The work discusses fundamental topics such as how we conceptualize diversity as well as examining the ways in which heterogeneous cultural constructs influence the teaching and learning of science in a range of contexts. Including numerous strategies ready for adoption by interested teachers, the book addresses the varied cultural factors that influence engagement with science education. It seeks answers to the question of why increasing numbers of students fail to connect with science education in schools and looks at the more subtle impact that students’ individually constructed identities have on the teaching and learning of science. Recognizing the diversity of its audience, the book covers differing levels and science subjects, and examines material from a range of viewpoints that include pedagogy, curricula, teacher education, learning, gender, religion, and ICT, as well as those of in-service and trainee teachers at all levels.

Author : Michel Grangeat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463003131

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Understanding Science Teachers’ Professional Knowledge Growth by Michel Grangeat Pdf

Science education has to be improved in order to become more responsive to the needs of society confronted with a rapidly changing world. Bringing science teaching up to a higher level is a key factor in this endeavour. The authors of this book think about teachers as part of the immediate and large communities and systems in which they function. They consider the development of teachers professional knowledge as a continuous process that depends on the communities they are committed to and participate in, the discipline they are teaching, the social context in which they perform, the instruments made available in their environment, and their day-to-day classroom experience. From this perspective, each teacher learns in an individual way, but cannot learn without relying on their colleagues and other partners. Such professional knowledge is partly tacit and explicit, and thus possessed by teachers, experts and researchers. Coordinating activity theory and models of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), the book provides a better understanding of the growth of science teacher professional knowledge. The chapters are organised around shared perspectives and themes and based on research findings. The emerging model can inform pre-service teacher educators, researchers and students. The book results from exchanges and symposia during international conferences (ECER, ESERA) and from a two-day seminar held at Université Grenoble Alpes in March 2015.

Author : Jan H. van Driel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004505452

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Science Teachers’ Knowledge Development by Jan H. van Driel Pdf

Jan van Driel presents an overview of his research on the professional knowledge that science teachers develop and enact in their teaching to promote student understanding and engagement in science.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231003547

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Educational content up close by UNESCO Pdf