ERIC Number: EJ1105456
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 17
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Learning to Teach Geography for Primary Education: Results of an Experimental Programme
Blankman, Marian; Schoonenboom, Judith; van der Schee, Joop; Boogaard, Marianne; Volman, Monique
Journal of Geography in Higher Education, v40 n3 p425-441 2016
Students training to become primary school teachers appear to have little awareness of the core concepts of geography (teaching). To ensure that future primary school teachers are able to develop their pupils' geographical awareness, a six weeks programme was developed. The characteristics of this programme -- named Consciously Teaching Geography (CTG) -- are: principles of good geography teaching, conjunction and a recurrent structure during training, modelling and reflection. In a quasi-experimental research design the question is answered what the effects are of CTG on the development of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for the subject of geography of first year primary student teachers. The results indicated that the programme has a positive effect on the domain-specific PCK development in the short term.
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Experimental Programs, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Geography Instruction, Reflection, Quasiexperimental Design, Student Teachers, Modeling (Psychology), Teacher Educators, Teaching Methods, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Control Groups, Pretests Posttests, Experimental Groups, Lesson Plans, Regression (Statistics), Program Effectiveness, Preservice Teacher Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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