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Student Primary Teachers' Knowledge and Attitudes towards Biotechnology--Are They Prepared to Teach Biotechnological Literacy?
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de la Hoz, Marina Casanoves; Solé-Llussà, Anna; Haro, Juan; Gericke, Niklas; Valls, Cristina – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
The speed of development of biotechnology within agriculture, industry, and medicine has changed our lives, and we need a biotechnological literacy to understand it. This implies that teachers in primary schools need to be biotechnologically literate in order to educate future generations. The aim of this study was to investigate Swedish…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Teachers' Perceptions of Early Math Concepts Learned from Unit Blocks: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
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Hsieh, Wu-Ying; McCollum, Jeanette A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This article reports and compares results from an interview study of early childhood teachers in the U.S. and Hong Kong, with a focus on the math outcomes that children may gain from play with unit blocks. Teachers were interviewed to obtain their ideas of the benefits of unit block play in three focal areas: geometry, measurement, and numeracy.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Knowledge Level
Selected Aspects of Conditions in the Use of New Media as an Important Part of the Training of Teachers in the Czech Republic and Poland--Differences, Risks and Threats
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Tomczyk, Lukasz; Szotkowski, Rene; Fabis, Artur; Wasinski, Arkadiusz; Chudý, Štefan; Neumeister, Pavel – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
The paper presents the complex problems of preparation of pedagogy students to work as teachers in the context of their readiness to use ICT in the didactic process. The complexity of this subject matter has been proved by the current, ongoing, discussion about the direction of the expected transformations of contemporary schools and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Understanding Malaysian Pre-Service Teachers Mathematical Content Knowledge and Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Leong, Kwan Eu; Meng, Chew Cheng; Rahim, Suzieleez Syrene Abdul – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
This article seeks to present findings from the analysis of the TEDS-M reports on the mathematical content knowledge (MCK) and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of the pre-service teachers in Malaysia. The main objective of this study was to investigate the level of teaching knowledge attained by the Malaysian pre-service primary and secondary…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
The Mathematics Education of Future Primary and Secondary Teachers: Methods and Findings from the Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics
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Tatto, Maria Teresa; Senk, Sharon – Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
In 2005, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Michigan State University, and the Australian Council for Educational Research took an important step in advancing the field of education by partnering to develop and implement the first international and comparative study of mathematics teacher education.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Teachers, Comparative Education, International Education