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Van Driel, Jan H.; Berry, Amanda – Educational Researcher, 2012
Because pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) includes teachers' understanding of how students learn, or fail to learn, specific subject matter, the development of PCK is an important goal to focus on in professional development programs. The research literature clearly indicates the complex nature of PCK as a form of teachers' professional…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Professional Development, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Literature
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Hume, Anne; Berry, Amanda – Research in Science Education, 2013
This paper reports findings from an ongoing study exploring how the Content Representation (CoRe) design can be used as a tool to help chemistry student teachers begin acquiring the professional knowledge required to become expert chemistry teachers. Phase 2 of the study, reported in this paper, investigated how collaboration with school-based…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Chemistry, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Berry, Amanda – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
This paper explores an aspect of the knowledge of teaching required by teacher educators and how that knowledge might be developed if teaching (about teaching) is to be conceptualised as a distinct and important field in its own right--with its own forms of knowledge, ways of working and perspectives on the world. The paper focuses on…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Knowledge Base for Teaching, Intellectual Disciplines, Teacher Educators
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Loughran, John; Milroy, Philippa; Berry, Amanda; Gunstone, Richard; Mulhall, Pamela – Research in Science Education, 2001
Examines ways in which knowledge might be captured, articulated, and portrayed to others. Develops an approach to articulation and portrayal based on what is called the CoRe (Content Representation), which represents the particular content/topic of the science teaching, and PaP-eRs (Pedagogical and Professional experience Repertoire), which…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science Instruction
Loughran, John; Gunstone, Richard; Berry, Amanda; Milroy, Philippa; Mulhall, Pam – 2000
This paper describes the rationale for and progress in a substantial research project that aims to develop an understanding of science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge. The background to and purposes for the project are explained. Related projects that study pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) are also described. Approaches to identifying…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Loughran, John; Gunstone, Richard; Berry, Amanda; Milroy, Philippa; Mulhall, Pam – 2000
In coming to better value teachers' knowledge and practice, there is a need to be able to articulate and document what teachers know and are able to do. This is central in coming to understand pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). This paper presents a working understanding of PCK as it has emerged through a research project and describes the…
Descriptors: Documentation, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Base for Teaching