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Ferry, Magnus; Åström, Peter; Romar, Jan-Erik – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2022
Becoming a teacher requires preservice teachers (PSTs) to interpret experiences from different perspectives because of the reversal role from being a student to being a teacher. For teacher education programs to be most effective, they need to understand the knowledge that PSTs hold and develop in order to optimise professional learning. With an…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Physical Education Teachers, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education
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Casey, Stephanie A.; Albert, Jim; Ross, Andrew – Journal of Statistics Education, 2018
Due to the increased role of statistics in current curriculum standards, there is at present a call for attention to secondary teachers' knowledge for teaching statistics in teacher education. This article reports the results of a study that answered this call by addressing mathematics teachers' knowledge for teaching graphing of bivariate…
Descriptors: Statistics, Graphs, Teacher Education Programs, Mathematics Teachers
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Murris, Karin; Haynes, Joanna – Global Education Review, 2020
Discourses and relations of child/adult and early education are super-permeated with ideas and practices of authority and boundary-making. In early years' practices, deeply important beliefs and assumptions about who or what has authority and who or what should create the boundaries of everyday activity often go unquestioned. This produces…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers
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Kraehe, Amelia M.; Hood, Emily Jean; Travis, Sarah – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2015
Inspired by critical race and feminist perspectives, this paper complicates the conversation on preparing arts educators for diversity and equity. The authors ground their research on the premise that arts educators committed to challenging social inequalities must understand sociocultural influences on art, curriculum, teaching, and learning. The…
Descriptors: Art Education, Critical Theory, Feminism, Qualitative Research
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Chesler, Joshua – Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers, 2015
Undergraduate mathematics programs must prepare teachers for the challenges of teaching statistical thinking as advocated in standards documents and statistics education literature. This study investigates the statistical thinking of pre-service secondary mathematics teachers at the end of their undergraduate educations. Although all had completed…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Statistics
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Trotti, Judy; Harris, Mary M.; Jacobson, Arminta; Brown, Amber – Teacher Education and Practice, 2012
Implementation of a parent involvement curriculum at a large university in the Southwest United States is described. Pre- and posttests confirmed that preservice teachers (n = 78) gained significant knowledge about parent engagement practices (p less than 0.001). Scores from a multicultural teaching-concerns survey were correlated with…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Multicultural Education, Preservice Teachers, Parent Participation
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Land, Tonia; Drake, Corey – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2012
The overall purpose of this study is to develop a measure of elementary mathematics teachers' curricular knowledge (Shulman, 1986) and curriculum use practices. In this paper, we present the first step in this larger effort--the piloting of one set of questions that document pre-service teachers' (PSTs') knowledge and practices for reading,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Elementary Education
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Nzau, K. A.; Ondimu, K. A.; Gikuhi, C. W. – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the teaching of AIDS education. The study was mainly concerned with the implementation of the AIDS education curriculum. In particular the study sought to investigate the attitudes held by trainers and trainees towards the subject and make suggestions to improve its teaching. The study was conducted in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Teaching Methods, Health Education
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Wiggins, Jackie – Music Educators Journal, 2007
To become a music teacher, an individual must understand music, learning and teaching, and music learning and teaching. In this article, the author discusses how preservice music education students can formulate these understandings and describes a kind of curriculum that fosters these kinds of understandings. She also considers some ideas that…
Descriptors: Music Techniques, Music Teachers, Music Education, Preservice Teacher Education
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Marsh, Jackie – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
This article discusses data arising from a longitudinal study of the attitudes, beliefs, and experiences of preservice teachers regarding the use of popular culture in the primary literacy curriculum in England. Eighteen students took part in a series of interviews throughout their three-year initial teacher education course. Data were inductively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum, Preservice Teachers, Popular Culture