Investigating Elementary Preservice Teachers' Beliefs about Teaching and Learning Science

Autor/in	Yesilyurt, Ezgi
Titel	Investigating Elementary Preservice Teachers' Beliefs about Teaching and Learning Science
Quelle	In: Journal of College Science Teaching, 51 (2022) 5, S.23-30 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0047-231X
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; Beliefs; Science Instruction; Elementary School Teachers; Figurative Language; Freehand Drawing; Student Centered Learning; Teaching Methods; Conventional Instruction; Student Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Belief; Glaube; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Drawing; Zeichnen; Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	To inform teacher education programs, it is imperative to uncover preservice teachers' (PSTs) implicit and tacit beliefs about teaching and learning science. The study of teachers' beliefs requires a range of methodological approaches to unearth their tacit beliefs. In that regard, this study used metaphor construction in conjunction with drawing tasks to examine PSTs' beliefs about teaching and learning science. A total of 129 preservice elementary teachers were asked to construct metaphors and drawings characterizing science teaching and learning. The findings indicated that even though PSTs had predominantly teacher-centered beliefs, they adopted several aspects of student-centered teaching perspectives. Furthermore, the PSTs appeared to be unaware of or to have underestimated the importance of learners' existing knowledge in learning science. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01