Pedagogical Content Knowledge in STEM: Research to Practice

✍ Scribed by Stephen Miles Uzzo, Sherryl Browne Graves, Erin Shay, Marisa Harford, Robert Thompson

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Series: Advances in STEM Education
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume represents both recent research in pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), as well as emerging innovations in how PCK is applied in practice. The notion of “research to practice” is critical to validating how effectively PCK works within the clinic and how it can be used to improve STEM learning. ​As the need for more effective educational approaches in STEM grows, the importance of developing, identifying, and validating effective practices and practitioner competencies are needed. This book covers a wide range of topics in PCK in different school levels (middle school, college teacher training, teacher professional development), and different environments (museums, rural).

The contributors believe that vital to successful STEM education practice is recognition that STEM domains require both specialized domain knowledge as well as specialized pedagogical approaches. The authors of this work were chosen because of their extensive fieldwork in PCK research and practice, making this volume valuable to furthering how PCK is used to enlighten the understanding of learning, as well as providing practical instruction. This text helps STEM practitioners, researchers, and decision-makers further their interest in more effective STEM education practice, and raises new questions about STEM learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Analysis of Practice and Teacher PCK: Inferences from Professional Development Research (Christopher D. Wilson, Molly Stuhlsatz, Connie Hvidsten, April Gardner)....Pages 3-16
The Intertwined Roles of Teacher Content Knowledge and Knowledge of Scientific Practices in Support of a Science Learning Community (Lane Seeley, Eugenia Etkina, Stamatis Vokos)....Pages 17-48
Personal and Canonical PCK: A Synergistic Relationship? (P. Sean Smith, Courtney L. Plumley, Meredith L. Hayes, R. Keith Esch)....Pages 49-66
From Budgets to Bus Schedules: Contextual Barriers and Supports for Science Instruction in Elementary Schools (Cathy Ringstaff, Judith Haymore Sandholtz)....Pages 67-82
Teacher Knowledge and Visual Access to Mathematics (Jill Neumayer DePiper, Mark Driscoll)....Pages 83-102
Front Matter ....Pages 103-103
Teacher Inquiry as a Vehicle for Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Pre-service Teachers (Marisa Harford, Rachel Leopold, Wendy Thomas Williams, Elizabeth Chatham)....Pages 105-131
Biology Teacher Preparation and PCK: Perspectives from the Discipline (Christine R. Cain, Sherryl Browne Graves)....Pages 133-144
Pedagogical Content Knowledge in a Mathematics Adolescent Education Master of Arts Program: A Case Study (Robert Thompson)....Pages 145-155
Evaluation of PCK in STEM Residency Programs: Challenges and Opportunities (Kay Sloan, Alison Allen, Kristin M. Bass, Erin Milligan-Mattes)....Pages 157-173
Front Matter ....Pages 175-175
Pre-service Teachers Developing PCK in a Natural History Museum (Curtis Pyke, Tiffany-Rose Sikorski, Rebecca Bray, Colleen Popson)....Pages 177-194
Engineering STEM Teacher Learning: Using a Museum-Based Field Experience to Foster STEM Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Engineering (Matty Lau, Satbir Multani)....Pages 195-213
Collaborative PCK in Practice: Bringing Together Secondary, Tertiary, and Informal Learning in a STEM Residency Program (Stephen Miles Uzzo, Harouna Ba, Laycca Umer)....Pages 215-239
Developing Educative Materials to Support Middle-School Science Teachers’ PCK for Argumentation: Comparing Multimedia to Text-Based Supports (Suzanna Loper, Katherine L. McNeill, Megan Goss)....Pages 241-264
Teacher Education for Maker Education: Helping Teachers Develop Appropriate PCK for Engaging Children in Educative Making (Danielle B. Harlow, Alexandria K. Hansen, Jasmine K. McBeath, Anne E. Leak)....Pages 265-280
Back Matter ....Pages 281-285

✦ Subjects

Education; Science Education; Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education; Mathematics Education; Teaching and Teacher Education