TY - JOUR
T1 - Learning to teach geography for primary education
T2 - results of an experimental programme
AU - Blankman, Marian
AU - Schoonenboom, J.
AU - van der Schee, J.A.
AU - Boogaard, Marianne
AU - Volman, Monique
PY - 2016/2/17
Y1 - 2016/2/17
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1080/03098265.2016.1144731
DO - 10.1080/03098265.2016.1144731
M3 - Article
SN - 0309-8265
VL - 40
SP - 425
EP - 441
JO - Journal of Geography in Higher Education
JF - Journal of Geography in Higher Education
IS - 3
ER -