The Development of Preservice Elementary Teachers' Curricular Role Identity for Science Teaching

Autor/inn/en	Forbes, Cory T.; Davis, Elizabeth A.
Titel	The Development of Preservice Elementary Teachers' Curricular Role Identity for Science Teaching
Quelle	In: Science Education, 92 (2008) 5, S.909-940 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8326
DOI	10.1002/sce.20265
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teacher Education; Preservice Teachers; Elementary School Science; Methods Courses; Teaching Methods; Teacher Role; Science Instruction; Science Curriculum; Elementary School Teachers; Surveys; Observation; Identification (Psychology) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Methodisch-didaktische Anleitung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrerrolle; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Beobachtung
Abstract	Curriculum materials are a crucial tool with which teachers engage in teaching practice. For preservice teachers to learn to use science curriculum materials in productive ways, they must develop a conception of themselves as elementary teachers in which the use of science curriculum materials is a valued dimension of science-teaching practice. We define those dimensions of teachers' professional role identities concerned with the use of curriculum materials as "curricular role identity". This mixed-methods study examines preservice elementary teachers' development of curricular role identity for science teaching through their use of science curriculum materials. Forty-seven preservice elementary teachers in two sections of an elementary science methods course were studied over the course of one semester. Data sources include survey results from preservice teachers in both course sections as well as interviews, observations, and course artifacts from preservice teachers studied in-depth. Results suggest preservice teachers articulate important differences between their own and more experienced elementary teachers' curricular role identity for science teaching and make progress toward appropriating the latter. Supporting them to do so requires emphasizing interactions with science curriculum materials as part of teacher education and providing classroom-based experiences through which they can put their developing curricular role identities into action. (Contains 6 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10