Constructing New Forms of Teaching: Subject Matter Knowledge in Inservice Teacher Education.

Mosenthal, James H.; Ball, Deborah Loewenberg

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Publication Date: 1992

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Constructing New Forms of Teaching: Subject Matter Knowledge in Inservice Teacher Education.

Mosenthal, James H.; Ball, Deborah Loewenberg

Journal of Teacher Education, v43 n5 p347-56 Nov-Dec 1992

Analyzes how staff at two inservice programs that helped elementary teachers develop constructivist teaching practices construed program subject matter, noting the role they assigned subject matter in helping educators learn to teach. The reformist pedagogy used a principled conception of subject matter. Developing teachers' subject matter knowledge was not emphasized. (SM)

Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Research Needs, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Role, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction

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Language: English

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