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ERIC Number: EJ590325
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0036-8326
Relationships between Prospective Elementary Teachers' Classroom Practice and Their Conceptions of Biology and of Teaching Science.
Meyer, Helen; Tabachnick, B. Robert; Hewson, Peter W.; Lemberger, John; Park, Hyun-Ju
Science Education, v83 n3 p323-46 May 1999
Discusses three prospective elementary teachers' conceptions of teaching science and selected portions of their knowledge base in life science. Explores how these teachers' conceptions, along with their teaching actions, developed during the course of a teacher-education program. Contains 21 references. (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Educational Experience, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Principles, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Education Programs
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Conceptual Change; University of Wisconsin Madison
Note: Based on a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April, 1994). For related articles, see SE 061 840-844.