Search for dissertations about: "PCK"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the word PCK.
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1. Coteaching chemical bonding with Upper secondary senior students : A way to refine teachers PCK
Abstract : The aim of this study was to investigate how an experienced chemistry teacher gains and refines her pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) by cooperating with two grade 12 students (age 18) as coteachers while teaching chemical bonding in a grade 10 Upper secondary class. The study has been conducted from a sociocultural perspective, especially Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development (ZPD) (Vygotsky, 1978). READ MORE
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2. Learning to Teach and Teaching to Learn : Primary science student teachers´ complex journey from learners to teachers
Abstract : This thesis concerns the process of student teachers´ learning to teach primary science and is based on four studies involving primary science student teachers during their teacher education program. The overall question that the thesis intends to investigate is in which ways student teachers’ learning about teaching can be illustrated and understood in terms of the critical aspects that are experienced within their teaching and learning practices. READ MORE
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3. Beyond Moral Teaching : Financial Literacy as Citizenship Education
Abstract : This thesis explores what financial literacy is, what financial literacy becomes and what financial literacy could become within the context of a citizenship education such as the Swedish upper secondary subject of social studies. Financial literacy does not intuitively converge with social sciences which leaves social studies teachers to both teach and realise financial literacy. READ MORE
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4. Consolidating concepts of technology education : From rhetoric towards a potential reality
Abstract : The thesis focuses on the relationship between international rhetoric and classroom realities in technology education. For some time there has been widespread recognition that the intended goals for learning in the subject area have failed to manifest in enacted practices as envisioned. READ MORE
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5. Teaching and learning of chemical bonding models : Aspects of textbooks, students’ understanding and teachers’ professional knowledge
Abstract : Despite the growing importance of science and technology in society, school students consider these subjects irrelevant and hard to learn. Teachers must therefore know how to teach science in ways that enhance students’ understanding and interest. READ MORE