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| Abstract Title: | The Examination of Beginning Secondary Physics Teachers’ PCK through Two Different Research Lenses |
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| Abstract: | This study examines the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of beginning physics teachers through two different research lenses – cognitive and teacher education research. The cognitive research lens examines PCK through the nature of expertise. Beginning physics teachers are considered novices, and therefore exhibit certain characteristics in terms of knowledge structure and pedagogies specific to teaching physics. The teacher education research lens examines PCK as one element within the necessary knowledge for teaching. All teachers move through a continuum of professional development, where beliefs about teaching interact with different types of knowledge (content, pedagogical, context, and pedagogical content knowledge) and classroom practice. Each of these areas develops with time spent in the profession of teaching. Data collected from four beginning secondary physics teachers over their first two years of teaching are used to illustrate similarities and differences between these two research lenses, within the characterization and development of PCK for teaching physics. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster |
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| Primary Contact: |
Jennifer J. Neakrase New Mexico State University Department of Physics MSC 3D, PO Box 30001 Las Cruces, NM 88003 Phone: 575-646-3428 Fax: 575-646-1934 |
