Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21433
Title: Enhancing science and mathematics teacher education: evaluating an enhancement module for science pre-service teachers
Contributor(s): Woolcott, Geoff (author); Whannell, Robert  (author)orcid ; Pfeiffer, Linda (author); Yeigh, Tony (author); Donnelly, James (author); Scott, Amanda (author)
Publication Date: 2017
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.1504/ijlc.2017.084615
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21433
Abstract: Motivated and well-trained science and mathematics teachers are a requirement for sustaining an industrialized economy. The Australian government has funded several projects to satisfy this requirement designed to improve pre-service teacher education in regional and rural Australia. One such project uses a collaboration nexus model with lesson feedback and reflection modules in an iterative process using a repeated sequence comprised of an Enhancement Module, a subsequent Teaching Lesson and a Reflection Module. This paper reports on qualitative investigations of the effectiveness of the collaboration nexus in the Enhancement Module and comments on the value of the iterative process. Results from small-scale trials with pre-service teachers indicate that the Module positively engages participants, pre-service teachers, university scientists and specialist educators. The Module and its iterations appear to be effective in grounding pre-service teacher education in targeting regional contexts relevant to the daily lives of both pre-service teachers and their classroom students.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: International Journal of Learning and Change, 9(2), p. 131-144
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1740-2883
1740-2875
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 130208 Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy
130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 390109 Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970113 Expanding Knowledge in Education
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies
280109 Expanding knowledge in education
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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