ERIC Number: EJ1483903
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Oct
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4308
EISSN: EISSN-1098-2736
Available Date: 2025-03-06
Tools for Learning--Promoting Reflection for Student Teachers' Development of PCK
Pernilla Nilsson1; Anne-Marie Cederqvist1
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, v62 n8 p1902-1922 2025
This paper investigates how the coherent integration of three different tools for reflection during a science methods course can contribute to student teachers' planning and enactment of science teaching, that is, their development of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). The Refined Consensus Model (RCM) is used as a theoretical lens for conceptualizing links between teaching practice and the development of PCK. The results show how the student teachers' initial PCK (pPCK[subscript input]) was manifested into ePCK during planning and teaching, and further, through reflection, developed into a new and "richer" PCK (pPCK[subscript output]). The three tools encouraged collaborative discussion and reflection about teaching certain big ideas linked to a topic. The case presented in this paper proved to be a coherent way to encourage student teachers to collaborate, reflect, and discuss ideas about their teaching practice and their professional development.
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Reflection, Science Education, Methods Courses, Student Teachers, Cooperation, Teaching Skills, Knowledge Level, Early Childhood Teachers, Models
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1School of Learning, Humanities and Society, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden

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