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Nivalainen, Ville; Asikainen, Mervi A.; Hirvonen, Pekka E. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2013
This study has investigated the use of an open guided inquiry laboratory course in which a group of pre-service teachers planned and implemented practical work for school purposes. A total of 32 pre-service teachers (physics, mathematics, and chemistry majors) participated in the study. Each participant wrote a reflective essay after completing…
Descriptors: Physics, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories
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Southerland, Sherry A.; Sowell, Scott; Enderle, Patrick – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2011
This research explored science teachers' pedagogical discontentment and described its role in teachers' consideration of new teaching practices. Pedagogical discontentment is an expression of the degree to which one is discontented because one's teaching practices do not achieve one's teaching goals. Through a series of structured interviews…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teaching Methods, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Interviews
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Eick, Charles J.; Stewart, Bethany – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2010
Dispositions supporting the teaching of science as structured inquiry by four elementary candidates are presented. Candidates were studied during student teaching based on their positive attitudes toward teaching science with reform-based materials in their methods course. Personal learning histories informed their attitudes, values, and beliefs…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Knowledge Base for Teaching