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Jaana Herranen Päivi Kousa Erik Fooladi Maija Aksela 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(14):1977-1998
ABSTRACTThe aim of this study is to provide an understanding of context-based inquiry teaching within a humanistic perspective on science education by studying pre-service teachers’ beliefs about inquiry and their implementations of inquiry in their context-based teaching sequences. Therefore, five pre-service teachers enrolled in a university undergraduate course called ‘Inquiry-based chemistry education II’ (5 ECTS) were involved in an empirical case study. The pre-service teachers’ implementations of inquiry were studied from their reports on self-designed context-based inquiry teaching sequences for students age 13–15, and their beliefs by interviewing them after the course. The results indicate that the most frequent aspects of inquiry, which were implemented, were that inquiry (i) includes a context, (ii) is a way to act, (iii) is a way to think, and (iv) includes source/information evaluation and argumentation. The pre-service teachers’ beliefs about inquiry were shown to reflect manifold aspects of inquiry, such as the difficulty in explaining it. However, this difficulty in encapsulating inquiry into a clear-cut definition is not necessarily an impediment to inquiry-based teaching. Furthermore, inquiry is inherently context-bound, and context-based teaching requires extra-situational knowledge from the context and not only declarative knowledge from science. This should be considered to support effective professional development. 相似文献
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Ileana M. Greca 《International Journal of Science Education》2016,38(5):791-813
Several international reports promote the use of the inquiry teaching methodology for improvements in science education at elementary school. Nevertheless, research indicates that pre-service elementary teachers have insufficient experience with this methodology and when they try to implement it, the theory they learnt in their university education clashes with the classroom practice they observe, a problem that has also been noted with other innovative methodologies. So, it appears essential for pre-service teachers to conduct supportive reflective practice during their education to integrate theory and practice, which various studies suggest is not usually done. Our study shows how opening up a third discursive space can assist this supportive reflective practice. The third discursive space appears when pre-service teachers are involved in specific activities that allow them to contrast the discourses of theoretical knowledge taught at university with practical knowledge arising from their ideas on science and science teaching and their observations during classroom practice. The case study of three pre-service teachers shows that this strategy was fundamental in helping them to integrate theory and practice, resulting in a better understanding of the inquiry methodology and its application in the classroom. 相似文献
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Gwen Nugent Michael D. Toland Richard Levy Gina Kunz David Harwood Denise Green Kathy Kitts 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2012,23(5):503-529
The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the effects of a field-based, inquiry-focused course on pre-service teachers?? geoscience content knowledge, attitude toward science, confidence in teaching science, and inquiry understanding and skills. The field-based course was designed to provide students with opportunities to observe, compare, and investigate geological structures in their natural environment and to gain an understanding of inquiry via hands-on learning activities designed to immerse students in authentic scientific investigation. ANCOVA and MANCOVA analyses examining differences in outcome measures between students in the field experience (n?=?25) and education students enrolled in the traditional, classroom-based course (n?=?37) showed that students in the field course generally had significantly higher scores. Results provide evidence of the value of the field and inquiry-based approach in helping pre-service teachers develop the needed skills and knowledge to create effective inquiry-based science lessons. 相似文献
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This paper describes the use of an institutional inquiry assignment for pre-service teachers at a large state university in the US to foster critical understanding of institutional oppression. Written inquiry assignments, web-based journal entries, and class discussions with one hundred and six pre-service teacher candidates enrolled in a cultural diversity course are analyzed using interpretive qualitative methods to examine the useful aspects as well as the limitations of this assignment for helping to engage in teaching for social justice. 相似文献
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In the context of the emphasis on inquiry teaching in science education, this study looks into how pre-service elementary
teachers understand and practise science inquiry teaching during field experience. By examining inquiry lesson preparation,
practice, and reflections of pre-service elementary teachers, we attempt to understand the difficulties they encounter and
what could result from those difficulties in their practice. A total of 16 seniors (fourth-year students) in an elementary
teacher education program participated in this study. In our findings, we highlight three difficulties ‘on the lesson’ that are related to teaching practices that were missing in the classrooms: (1) developing children’s own ideas and curiosity,
(2) guiding children in designing valid experiments for their hypotheses, (3) scaffolding children’s data interpretation and
discussion and another three difficulties ‘under the lesson’ that are related to problems with the pre-service teachers’ conceptualization of the task: (4) tension between guided and
open inquiry, (5) incomplete understanding of hypothesis, and (6) lack of confidence in science content knowledge. Based on
these findings, we discuss how these difficulties are complexly related in the pre-service teachers’ understandings and action.
Several suggestions for science teacher education for inquiry teaching, especially hypothesis-based inquiry teaching, are
then explored. 相似文献
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William W. Cobern David Schuster Betty Adams Brandy Ann Skjold Ebru Zeynep Muğaloğlu Amy Bentz 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(13):2265-2288
A critical aspect of teacher education is gaining pedagogical content knowledge of how to teach science for conceptual understanding. Given the time limitations of college methods courses, it is difficult to touch on more than a fraction of the science topics potentially taught across grades K-8, particularly in the context of relevant pedagogies. This research and development work centers on constructing a formative assessment resource to help expose pre-service teachers to a greater number of science topics within teaching episodes using various modes of instruction. To this end, 100 problem-based, science pedagogy assessment items were developed via expert group discussions and pilot testing. Each item contains a classroom vignette followed by response choices carefully crafted to include four basic pedagogies (didactic direct, active direct, guided inquiry, and open inquiry). The brief but numerous items allow a substantial increase in the number of science topics that pre-service students may consider. The intention is that students and teachers will be able to share and discuss particular responses to individual items, or else record their responses to collections of items and thereby create a snapshot profile of their teaching orientations. Subsets of items were piloted with students in pre-service science methods courses, and the quantitative results of student responses were spread sufficiently to suggest that the items can be effective for their intended purpose. 相似文献
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Practical work is often noted as a core reason many students take on science in secondary schools (high schools). However, there are inherent difficulties associated with classroom practical work that militate against scientific inquiry, an approach espoused by many science educators. The use of interactive simulations to facilitate student inquiry has emerged as a complement to practical work. This study presents case studies of four science teachers using a virtual chemistry laboratory (VCL) with their students in an explicitly guided inquiry manner. Research tools included the use of the Inquiry Science Implementation Scale in a ‘talk-aloud’ manner, Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol for video observations, and teacher interviews. The findings suggest key aspects of practical work that hinder teachers in adequately supporting inquiry and highlight where a VCL can overcome many of these difficulties. The findings also indicate considerations in using the VCL in its own right. 相似文献
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Nichole A. Guillory 《Teaching Education》2013,24(2):153-165
This research essay is intended to situate the curriculum in my multicultural education courses – of talking back through autobiographical inquiry – within real schools, a site where curriculum theorists rarely situate their work. The literature by curriculum theorists that precedes my study generally has focused on how pre-service teachers in multicultural education courses are changed (or not) as a result of course readings, discussions, and critical autobiographical reflection, all of which happen within the confines of the university classroom. My research essay extends the work of curriculum theorists on autobiography in education by focusing on the ways in which pre-service teachers use autobiographical inquiry to reflect on the impact of the context of real public schools and K-12 students on their constructions of themselves as teachers. In my extension of this work, I draw on bell hooks’ notion of “talking back” as an overarching framework in analyzing the autobiographical reflections of pre-service teachers. 相似文献
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Characteristics of Pre-Service Teachers’ Online Discourse: The Study of Local Streams 总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0
Ling L. Liang Jazlin Ebenezer Deborah S. Yost 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(1):69-79
This study describes the characteristics of pre-service teachers’ discourse on a WebCT Bulletin Board in their investigations
of local streams in an integrated mathematics and science course. A qualitative analysis of data revealed that the pre-service
teachers conducted collaborative discourse in framing their research questions, conducting research and writing reports. The
science teacher educator provided feedback and carefully crafted prompts to help pre-service teachers develop and refine their
work. Overall, the online discourse formats enhance out-of-class communication and support collaborative group work. But the
discourse on the critical examination of one another’s point of views rooted in scientific inquiry appeared to be missing.
It is suggested that pre-service teachers should be given more guidance and opportunities in science courses in carrying out
scientific discourse that reflects reform-based scientific inquiry. 相似文献
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: This study explores pre-service teachers’ knowledge of visual arts education and their ability to undertake creative processes. It is a study conducted with 88 primary school student teachers from a university in southern Spain. The participants were required to produce an artistic piece in which they were asked to reflect their thoughts on visual art education. The resulting pieces served as a tool for inquiry which enabled us to evaluate their theoretical and practical knowledge after performing an analysis of their form and content. After analysing the data, we concluded that future teachers are aware that arts education develops many types of skills, although they are only partially able to carry out a satisfactory artistic creation process. Therefore, it is essential to reinforce the training of pre-service teachers in the domain of artistic processes. Questioning pre-service teachers directly, and doing so through artistic creation, has allowed us to ascertain their level of knowledge of the visual arts. 相似文献
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程燕 《四川教育学院学报》2013,(10):113-116
语文课程是一门学习语言文字运用的综合性、实践性课程,学习语言文字运用重在“用”字.通过课堂培养学生的“语用”能力,注重让学生在具体的语言环境中识字;将童年生活的状态及经验同语言文字的学习运用相结合;以语文知识、方法和语文技能,即本体性教学内容为目标展开教学.准确把握年段特点,尊重学生对文本内容个性解读的同时,注重在阅读过程中教给学生阅读的方法,培养学生归纳概括等语用能力;充分利用学生对课文的深度阅读、理解,引导学生学习作者的表达,并在具体的语言实践中去尝试运用各种表达方式,找准“语用”点,提高课堂效率. 相似文献
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The research goal of this study was to determine whether teachers who participated in an inquiry-based course were able to internalize a dynamic open inquiry process. This study focused on 25 science teachers who participated in an annual inquiry-based academic course. Several teaching tools helped teachers employ an open inquiry process. We concluded that the teaching tools applied by teachers in documenting their inquiry processes enabled them to express dynamic inquiry characteristics. The results indicate consistency between the criteria most frequent in teachers’ inquiries and the criteria running through their reflections. In addition, teachers implemented the dynamic inquiry criteria in their classroom teaching. 相似文献
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我国产业转型升级急需高质量的中职教育和高素质的中职教师。当前,我国职教教师的职前培养远远不能满足我国中职教育事业发展的现实需要。剖析我国中职教师职前培养现有路径存在的问题及其原因,提出从国家层面提供优化中职教师职前培养路径的政策、经费和制度环境支持,并从中职专业理论课教师、普通文化课教师和专业实训课教师三个维度,分别构建了中职教师职前开放分类培养的优化路径。 相似文献
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The authors analyse epistemological beliefs and their relationship to the knowledge developed by students engaged in a reorganized programme of training for secondary school teachers in Quebec. They examine two contexts for initial training: the training in their discipline that university students follow, and the practical training students undertake in the school environment. Qualitative data were obtained through critical exploration (Piagetian) interviews with twelve pre-service teachers. These results made it possible to outline multiple epistemological postures, and to describe the tensions between the subject-related and practical aspects of initial training. In particular, based on an analysis of their epistemological beliefs and their relationship to knowledge, it would appear that pre-service teachers develop a less refined approach through practical training than they attain at university. Finally, the authors raise some issues concerning teacher training. 相似文献
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基于学者Alan Zollman的STEM素养内涵界定,提出评测STEM素养的一级指标,包括STEM学科概念理解、问题解决能力、STEM态度,并编制问卷,问卷信度系数为0. 931。以浙江省高师院校不同专业背景的理科师范生为研究对象,基于问卷、访谈,分析理科师范生STEM素养在不同维度是否与专业、年级和性别存有相关性。表现为:(1)学科概念理解存在偏差;(2)综合问题解决能力亟待提升;(3) STEM态度与职业理想需要涵养。进而从课程、教学、课堂环境、专业定位等方面进行归因分析,提出走向综合、开放、多元的理科师范生STEM素养发展,即注重教师教育课程的综合性,加强学科交叉理解;创设开放的问题解决课堂环境,实现教学方法的多元;引领多元化的职业理想与定位,涵养师范生STEM态度。 相似文献
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Stefannie de Sá Ibraim 《International Journal of Science Education》2016,38(12):1996-2025
Many researchers have highlighted the important role of teachers in creating and managing argumentative, as well as the need for teachers, during their training, to have opportunities to develop knowledge about arguments, enabling them to work from the perspective of argumentation. This study investigates to what extent a context of explicit teaching of argumentation contributed to developing this knowledge. The data sources include video records of explicit teaching of argumentation, collection of materials produced and used by pre-service teachers, and field notes. Analysis of the data indicates that the explicit teaching of argumentation influenced the conceptual learning of pre-service teachers concerning the elements interwoven into argumentative practice, especially evidence and justifications, and the development of pedagogical aspects in the context of argument. Although the pre-service teachers had expressed some teaching knowledge of argumentation in classroom discussion situations, the use of this approach in teaching situations still appears to be challenging for these teachers. The findings of this study highlight contributions to the area of teacher education in argumentation in terms of knowledge that is essential to plan and conduct argumentation-based teaching, and also to the structure of the initial teacher training programmes directed at teaching in argumentation. 相似文献
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我国教师教育课程的突出问题是理论与实践的割裂,为促进信息技术教育专业的师范生实践性知识的发展,作者尝试在高师信息技术教学法课程中实施全新的课程设计,将"真实问题"、"可操作的"项目、"大学-中小学合作"的学习环境和"反思性行动"四要素融入课程教学,完成信息技术教育专业师范生实践性知识的发展。 相似文献
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Museum Experience — a Resource for Science Teacher Education 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
In this study, the researcher included an extensive science museum experience for the pre-service secondary science teachers within a teaching methods course to enhance their learning to teach science. The extensive museum experience covered four aspects: the visit, discussion with museum educators, the development of lesson plans, and practising teaching in the science museum. Twenty-one pre-service science teachers attended this course. Qualitative methods were used for data collection and analysis. The data sources included field notes, reports, diaries, and interviews. The findings show that this course connecting museum resources and context had created a novel situation for pre-service science teachers to learn how to teach science. The discourses with the museum educators also provided them with innovations in education beyond the gains from traditional teacher education. Through developing and practising teaching activities, they improved their understanding of the meanings and effective ways to use museum resources in science teaching. Pre-service science teachers reported that getting feedback from peers and observing modeling teaching was helpful. This course provided an alternative way to view how scientific activities were developed for junior high students. In general, the use of museum settings provides a new profile of learning and teaching course for pre-service science teachers in Taiwan. Based on the findings, this study makes suggestions for those science teacher educators who would like to use science museum resources and contexts to nurture prospective science teachers. 相似文献
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Developing pre-service science teachers’ epistemic insight remains a challenge, despite decades of research in related bodies of work such as the nature of science (NOS) in science education. While there may be numerous aspects to this problem, one critical element is that the NOS is a meta-concept that demands higher-order cognitive skills. One possible strategy to facilitate pre-service teachers’ understanding of epistemic aspects of science is visualisation. Visual representations of objects and processes can be tools for developing and monitoring understanding. Although the NOS and visualisation literatures have been studied extensively, the intersection of these bodies of literatures has been minimal. Incorporating visual tools on the NOS in teacher education is likely to facilitate teachers’ learning, eventually impacting their students’ learning of the NOS. The objective of this paper is to illustrate how the visual tools of scientific knowledge and practices aspects of the NOS can be integrated in science teacher education in order to develop pre-service teachers’ epistemic insight. The paper presents an empirical study that incorporated visual tools about the NOS in primary science teacher education. Data on 14 pre-service teachers’ are presented along with in-depth case studies of 3 pre-service teachers illustrating the influence of the teacher education intervention. The qualitative analysis of visual representations before and after the intervention as well as verbal data suggests that there was improvement in pre-service teachers’ perceptions of the NOS. Implications for future research on visualisation of the NOS are discussed. 相似文献
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The Israeli high school biology curriculum comprises the Biomind program, in which students are engaged in an open inquiry
learning process. The dynamic features of open inquiry often pose challenges to teachers in implementing the Biomind program.
The current qualitative research shows that facilitating students in a dynamic open inquiry process is multidimensional. Teaching
practices cover a wide range of methods, from structured inquiry through guided inquiry to open inquiry. An individual teacher’s
profile can be elucidated on the basis of this spectrum. In addition, we realised that teachers often encounter several difficulties
in implementing open dynamic inquiry: A dearth of teachers’ scientific knowledge, students’ lack of scientific knowledge and
skills, and a restrictive time-frame. This study suggests several areas which should be considered while implementing an on
going professional development support for teachers who are engaged in open inquiry teaching. 相似文献