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Teaching History in Bilingual Secondary Education in the Netherlands

Teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge of two specific historical contexts captured and compared

PCK is seen as the transformation of content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge into a different type of knowledge that is used to develop and carry out teaching strategies. To gain more insight into the extent to which PCK is content specific, the PCK about more topics or concepts should be compared. However, researchers have rarely compared teachers’ concrete PCK about more than one topic. To examine the content dependency of PCK, we captured the PCK of sixteen experienced Dutch history teachers about two historical contexts (i.e. topics) using interviews and Content Representation questionnaires. Analysis reveals that all history teachers’ PCK about the two contexts overlaps, although the degree of overlap differs. Teachers with relatively more overlap are driven by their overarching subject related goals and less by the historical context they teach. We discuss the significance of these outcomes for the role of teaching orientation as a part of PCK.

A Lifetime Search for PCK and Physics Representations across Contexts and Cultures

De World Conference on Physics Education vond plaats in Istanbul van 1 – 6 juli met als thema The Role of Context, Culture,and Representations in Physics Teaching and Learning. Deze conferentie wordt eens in de vier jaar door de Europese, Aziatische, en Amerikaanse natuurkunde onderwijs organisaties georganiseerd . Er waren 350 deelnemers waaronder de top van de Amerikaanse en Europese natuurkunde onderwijsspecialisten. Presentaties betroffen allerlei aspecten van natuurkunde onderwijs zoals toepassing van ICT, begripsmoeilijkheden van leerlingen, toetsing, onderzoekend leren, spectaculaire demonstraties, etc. HvA was vertegenwoordigd door Mirjam Venneker van VO-BVE-BiNaSk en lector Ed van den Berg (Pabo). Ed was een van de keynote speakers. Een downloadable annotated powerpoint is te vinden op: http://www.wcpe2012.org/keynote-speakers.html.

Online supplements to Geography teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge: a systematic review

Online supplements to Smit, E., Tuithof, H., Savelsbergh, E., & Béneker, T. (2023). Geography teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge: A systematic review. Journal of Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221341.2023.2173796 Supplement 1: Extended information on selected studies Supplement 2: Full references of studies used in the review Supplement 3: Codebook Abstract: Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) is the knowledge teachers use to teach a specific subject to a specific audience. The importance of PCK to quality teaching is widely recognized. However, an overview of research about geography teachers’ PCK is missing. To fill this gap, we conducted a systematic review. We analyzed 43 empirical studies, but only 9 used PCK as a framework. Most studies addressed instructional strategies or teaching orientations. The studies were too diverse to draw conclusions on geography teachers’ PCK in general. But portraits of 16 geography teachers emphasized the necessity of geographical knowledge and teaching experience for PCK-quality.

Lessen voor lerarenopleiding en onderwijspraktijk

De theorie-praktijk kloof is berucht in het onderwijs. Theorie moet vaak nog verregaand worden aangepast aan de eigen onderwijsomstandigheden van de docent, zeg maar aan de lokale onderwijsecologie. Aan de andere kant zit er veel vakdidactische en praktijkkennis opgesloten in het hoofd van docenten, tacit knowledge, onzichtbaar voor studenten in lerarenopleiding. Wat nu als je die theorie deels gaat genereren in de eigen klassen van docenten en leraren in opleiding? Dan wordt de theorie-praktijk kloof kleiner, kan tacit knowledge mogelijk expliciet en zichtbaar worden, en wordt er een fundament gelegd voor blijvend leren van de eigen leservaring.

Portraying the developing PCK of Dutch pre-service geography teachers

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) is used to describe the knowledge teachers use to teach a specific subject to a specific audience. Although PCK is linked to student success and motivation, relatively little is known about the PCK of geography teachers. Through a mixed methods approach, we surveyed a group of 73 Dutch pre-service teachers in their final year of geography teacher education. We used the PCK-consensus model to address both PCK-on action (teacher knowledge) and PCK-in action (teacher practice). We investigated the former through a CoRe-assignment and the latter through a quantitative survey. Teacher’s PCK-in action focussed on teacher-centred lessons with ample attention for visualisations, current events, and efforts to engage students. The results for PCK-on action confirmed the content dependency of PCK. Pre-service teachers chose different geographical topics and used different goals and strategies when teaching these topics. In this context, we also found that they experienced difficulties when teaching controversial issues. In a final step, we combined the results of both methods for 9 teachers in individual PCK portraits. These portraits show that coherence between PCK-elements and, therefore, PCK-quality is still weak for most pre-service teachers. Consequently, their fragile subject matter knowledge seems to influence their developing PCK.