This book enhances readers’ understanding of science teachers’ professional knowledge, and illustrates how the Pedagogical Content Knowledge research agenda can make a difference in teachers’ practices and how students learn science. Importantly, it offers an updated international perspective on the evolving nature of Pedagogical Content Knowledge and how it is shaping research and teacher education agendas for science teaching. The first few chapters background and introduce a new model known as the Refined Consensus Model (RCM) of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) in science education, and clarify and demonstrate its use in research and teacher education and practice. Subsequent chapters show how this new consensus model of PCK in science education is strongly connected with empirical data of varying nature, contains a tailored language to describe the nature of PCK in science education, and can be used as a framework for illuminating past studies and informing the design of futurePCK studies in science education. By presenting and discussing the RCM of PCK within a variety of science education contexts, the book makes the model significantly more applicable to teachers’ work.
This book enhances readers’ understanding of science teachers’ professional knowledge, and illustrates how the Pedagogical Content Knowledge research agenda can make a difference in teachers’ practices and how students learn science. Importantly, it offers an updated international perspective on the evolving nature of Pedagogical Content Knowledge and how it is shaping research and teacher education agendas for science teaching. The first few chapters background and introduce a new model known as the Refined Consensus Model (RCM) of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) in science education, and clarify and demonstrate its use in research and teacher education and practice. Subsequent chapters show how this new consensus model of PCK in science education is strongly connected with empirical data of varying nature, contains a tailored language to describe the nature of PCK in science education, and can be used as a framework for illuminating past studies and informing the design of futurePCK studies in science education. By presenting and discussing the RCM of PCK within a variety of science education contexts, the book makes the model significantly more applicable to teachers’ work.
Explores how the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) construct is currently being interpreted, used, and measured in science education Repositions PCK within teachers’ professional knowledge for science teaching Introduces the Refined Consensus Model (RCM) of PCK in science education Offers a shared language of PCK through the RCM of PCK Showcases new approaches to effectively capture, measure, and represent PCK for science teaching
Anne Hume
pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) professional knowledge of teachers Second PCK summit as a community of researchers the refined consensus model of PCK science teacher education teachers' PCK development PCK research methodologies instruments for measuring rubrics and PCK mapping instruments for measuring PCK interventions for developing content representation design interventions for developing Learning stories interventions for developing CoRe design representing PCK using vignettes and PaP-ERs teacher professional competence components of PCK