Portraying the developing PCK of Dutch pre-service geography teachers ...

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) is used to describe the knowledge teachers use to teach a specific subject to a specific audience. Although PCK is linked to student success and motivation, relatively little is known about the PCK of geography teachers. Through a mixed methods approach, we surveyed a group of 73 Dutch pre-service teachers in their final year of geography teacher education. We used the PCK-consensus model to address both PCK-on action (teacher knowledge) and PCK-in action (teacher practice). We investigated the former through a CoRe-assignment and the latter through a quanti... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Smit, Eefje
Tuithof, Hanneke
Béneker, Tine
Dokumenttyp: Dataset
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Verlag/Hrsg.: Taylor & Francis
Schlagwörter: Medicine / Pharmacology / Biotechnology / Evolutionary Biology / FOS: Biological sciences / Sociology / FOS: Sociology / Science Policy
Sprache: unknown
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28982707
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24631180

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) is used to describe the knowledge teachers use to teach a specific subject to a specific audience. Although PCK is linked to student success and motivation, relatively little is known about the PCK of geography teachers. Through a mixed methods approach, we surveyed a group of 73 Dutch pre-service teachers in their final year of geography teacher education. We used the PCK-consensus model to address both PCK-on action (teacher knowledge) and PCK-in action (teacher practice). We investigated the former through a CoRe-assignment and the latter through a quantitative survey. Teacher’s PCK-in action focussed on teacher-centred lessons with ample attention for visualisations, current events, and efforts to engage students. The results for PCK-on action confirmed the content dependency of PCK. Pre-service teachers chose different geographical topics and used different goals and strategies when teaching these topics. In this context, we also found that they experienced ...