How does that work? Developing pedagogical content knowledge from subject knowledge

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• Dr Judith Hillier, Lecturer in Science (physics) Oxford University, Department of Education
• Monday 20 May 2013, 16:30-18:00
• GS4, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

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The development of subject knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge has been the focus of much educational research and debate in recent years. Of particular interest is the process by which pre-service science teachers develop pedagogical content knowledge from their subject knowledge. In the study presented here, a process of writing narrative explanations of scientific phenomena was developed as part of a pre-service teacher education course at a UK university. This process revealed the importance of teachers having coherent internal accounts to explain phenomenon which they can then share with students through meaningful discourse and joint action. Developing these coherent internal accounts would appear to be part of the process by which subject knowledge is transformed into pedagogical content knowledge.

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