Teaching Resources in Early School Grades: A Comparative Approach to the Teacher's Interpretative Space in Three Subject Areas

Autor/inn/en	Ligozat, Florence; Leutenegger, Francia
Titel	Teaching Resources in Early School Grades: A Comparative Approach to the Teacher's Interpretative Space in Three Subject Areas
Quelle	In: Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 46 (2015) 4, S.345-367 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0826-4805
DOI	10.1007/s10780-015-9265-3
Schlagwörter	Knowledge Level; Epistemology; Teaching Methods; Primary Education; French; Mathematics Instruction; Language Arts; Science Instruction; Elementary School Students; Learning Theories; Comparative Analysis; Foreign Countries; Educational Resources; Young Children; Teacher Student Relationship; Interaction; Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wissensbasis; Erkenntnistheorie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Primarbereich; Französisch; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Sprachkultur; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Ausland; Bildungsmittel; Frühe Kindheit; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Interaktion; Schweiz
Abstract	As a research field for studying the conditions of knowledge diffusion in teaching and learning, French-speaking "Didactiques" strongly rely upon the concept of knowledge transposition for characterizing the relationships between the knowledge built and used in "out of school" activities, the knowledge to be taught in the curriculum texts, and the knowledge effectively taught in the classroom. This paper explores the knowledge content and the learning epistemologies resulting from the transposition process by comparing teaching resources provided for the early grades (age 5-6) of primary school classrooms in western (French-speaking) Switzerland. We examined teaching resources from three subject areas: French language, mathematics, and science. The purposes of this study were two-fold: (i) to identify the early formation of subject areas in activities done with young students; and (ii) to uncover the implicit learning theories underpinning the patterns of teacher-student actions, according to the resources' designers. We found that a comparative approach to analysing teaching resources from different subject areas enabled us to trace the continuities and discontinuities in the teacher's interpretative space, defined by the textual description of the curriculum. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01