Re-examining Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Science Education

✍ Scribed by Berry, Amanda; Friedrichsen, Patricia; Loughran, John

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Series: Teaching and Learning in Science Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) has been adapted, adopted, and taken up in a diversity of ways in science education since the concept was introduced in the mid-1980s. Now that it is so well embedded within the language of teaching and learning, research and knowledge about the construct needs to be more useable and applicable to the work of science teachers, especially so in these times when standards and other measures are being used to define their knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Re-examining Pedagogical Content
Knowledge in Science Education is organized around three themes: Re-examining PCK: Issues, ideas and development; Research developments and trajectories; Emerging themes in PCK research. Featuring the most up-to-date work from leading PCK scholars in science education across the globe, this volume maps where PCK has been, where it is going, and how it now informs and enhances knowledge of science teachers’ professional knowledge. It illustrates how the PCK research agenda has developed and can make a difference to teachers’ practice and students’ learning of science.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
PART I Introducing PCK: Issues, ideas, and development
1 PCK: Its genesis and exodus
2 The PCK Summit: A process and structure for challenging current ideas, provoking future work, and considering new directions
3 A model of teacher professional knowledge and skill including PCK: Results of the thinking from the PCK Summit
PART II Research developments and trajectories
4 Supporting growth of pedagogical content knowledge in science
5 Science teachers’ PCK: Understanding sophisticated practice
6 Tracing a research trajectory on PCK and chemistry university professors’ beliefs
7 Assessing PCK: A new application of the uncertainty principle
8 From portraying toward assessing PCK: Drivers, dilemmas, and directions for future research
9 Toward a more comprehensive way to capture PCK in its complexity
10 The PCK Summit and its effect on work in South Africa
11 My PCK research trajectory: A purple book prompts new questions
12 Pedagogical content knowledge reconsidered: A teacher educator’s perspective
13 On the beauty of knowing then not knowing: Pinning down the elusive qualities of PCK
PART III Pedagogical content knowledge: Emerging themes
14 Examining PCK research in the context of current policy initiatives
15 Science teacher PCK learning progressions: Promises and challenges
16 Gathering evidence for the validity of PCK measures: Connecting ideas to analytic approaches
PART IV Provocations and closing thoughts
17 Re-examining PCK: A personal commentary
About the contributors
Index

✦ Subjects

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