Recognizing the needs – Student teachers´ learning to teach from teaching

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  • Pernilla Nilsson Sektionen för Lärarutbildning, Högskolan i Halmstad

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nordina.371

Abstract

This paper is based on an exploration of the ways in which primary science student teachers recognize and learn about issues that shape their own professional learning. The paper discusses different perspectives of “knowledgebase needed for teaching” and Shulman’s concept of pedagogical content knowledge, and explores how elements of knowledge are to be recognized and further developed within primary teacher education. Primary science student teacher participants (n = 25) were stimulated to use portfolios as a tool to reflect upon situations within their six weeks teaching practice in pre- and primary schools in order to facilitate recognizing their knowledge needs. The results give an insight into what situations within the teaching practice that student teachers consider as important for their own learning to teach primary maths and science.

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Published

2012-06-29

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