Learning to teach geography for primary education: results of an experimental programme |
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| Authors: | Marian Blankman Judith Schoonenboom Joop van der Schee Marianne Boogaard Monique Volman |
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| Institution: | 1. Departmant of Education, School of Education, Inholland University of Applied Sciences, Haarlem, The Netherlands;2. Department of Education, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria;3. Faculty of Psychology and Education, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;4. Kohnstamm Institute, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;5. Research Institute of Child Development and Education of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Students training to become primary school teachers appear to have little awareness of the core concepts of geography (teaching). To ensure that future primary school teachers are able to develop their pupils’ geographical awareness, a six weeks programme was developed. The characteristics of this programme – named Consciously Teaching Geography (CTG) – are: principles of good geography teaching, conjunction and a recurrent structure during training, modelling and reflection. In a quasi-experimental research design the question is answered what the effects are of CTG on the development of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for the subject of geography of first year primary student teachers. The results indicated that the programme has a positive effect on the domain-specific PCK development in the short term. |
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| Keywords: | Primary teacher education pedagogical content knowledge geography education modelling reflection |
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