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Zapata-Cardona, Lucía; Martínez-Castro, Cindy Alejandra – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2023
The purpose of this research is to investigate prospective teachers' learning in the statistical modeling process. To reach this goal, we position the study in a socio-critical perspective of modeling that informed the design of a statistical investigation. Participants were 10 prospective teachers from a state university in northwestern Colombia…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Teacher Education Programs, Methods Courses, Foreign Countries
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Leung, Jessica Shuk Ching; Chan, Kennedy Kam Ho; He, Tracy Cuiling – Educational Studies, 2021
Student teachers (STs) were asked to reflect on their experiences of watching videos of their own and their peers' teaching and to generate and share metaphors of the experience. Qualitative analysis of their metaphorical explanations revealed the cognitive, emotional and motivational responses associated with the STs' video-viewing experiences.…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Reflective Teaching, Video Technology
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Viviane Florentino de Melo; Rodrigo Drumond Vieira – Journal of Education and Learning, 2023
In this article, we focus on a set of remote activities regarding simulated juries, judges' evaluations, communication of verdicts, and a post-discussion conversation. These activities aimed to promote learning of the preservice teachers about the differences between remote and in-person teaching in a chemistry teaching methods course. The set of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Methods Courses, Preservice Teachers
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Vieira, Rodrigo Drumond; da Rocha Bernardo, José Roberto; Evagorou, Maria; de Melo, Viviane Florentino – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
In this article, we focus on the contributions that a simulated jury-based activity might have for pre-service teachers, especially for their active participation and learning in teacher education. We observed a teacher educator using a series of simulated juries as teaching resources to help pre-service teachers develop their pedagogical…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Science Teachers, Persuasive Discourse, Simulation
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Vieira, Rodrigo Drumond; Kelly, Gregory J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
In this paper, we present and apply a multi-level method for discourse analysis in science classrooms. This method is based on the structure of human activity (activity, actions, and operations) and it was applied to study a pre-service physics teacher methods course. We argue that such an approach, based on a cultural psychological perspective,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Physics, Science Instruction, Activities
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Bowen, G. Michael; Farmer, Robert; Arsenault, Nicole – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2012
This paper theorizes issues involved with conflicts between participation in on-line settings and real-world social commitments, such as has recently happened in schools with students using public discussion forums for classes. We problematize how real-world social commitments negatively affect participation in online learning environments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses
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den Heyer, Kent – Teaching Education, 2009
In this study, a group of teacher educators converse about their teaching practice in light of a new provincial K-12 program of social studies. The most noteworthy feature of this new program is its explicit call for teachers to include Aboriginal and Francophone perspectives as they teach to the program's two central themes of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators
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Orland-Barak, Lily; Yinon, Hayuta – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
Drawing on extant theorizing and research on reflective teaching, this paper discusses the impact of an innovative methods course designed around the activity of student teachers' reflections on their own classroom discourse, for their understandings of the connections between theory and practice. Situated in the context of foreign language…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Theory Practice Relationship, Preservice Teacher Education
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Blades, David W. – Journal of Educational Thought/Revue de la Pensee Educative, 1997
Discusses Kierkegaard's idea of repetition as a dynamic conversation between groups that reveals possible changes in a discourse. Describes an instructor's experiences imparting a science education methods course in a Native American school in Saskatchewan, highlighting the conversation between the instructors' past and Native American culture.…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Discourse Analysis, Educational Philosophy, Foreign Countries
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Murphy, Elizabeth – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2004
This paper reports on the creation of an instrument for use by instructors, students, or researchers to identify, measure or promote critical thinking (CT) in online asynchronous discussions (OADs). Four models of CT were reviewed, synthesised, analysed, and evaluated to clarify the construct. Indicators of specific cognitive processes related to…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Discussion Groups, Transcripts (Written Records), Test Construction