Abstract
Exploring curriculum development in science teacher education curriculum courses through most significant change stories
44th Australasian Science Education Research Association Annual Conference Programme and Abstracts, pp.64-65
Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) Annual Conference, 44th (Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand, 02-Jul-2013–05-Jul-2013)
2013
Abstract
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been identified within the Australian curriculum as a general capability across all curriculum areas. Therefore the Australian Science Curriculum F-10 requires that science teachers develop student ICT capabilities and Teacher Educators engage initial teacher education students with ICT as a component of their science curriculum courses. The Australian Government funded 'Teaching Teachers for the Future' (TTF) project supported teacher educators to incorporate Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) into initial teacher education curriculum courses. This paper explores the way science teacher educators engaged with the development of ICT in their science curriculum courses. Following a semester long implementation of a revised science curriculum course, teacher educators developed Most Significant Change (MSC) stories of practice based on data collected from focus group interviews with teaching staff and students who participated in the course. These data were analysed using content analysis and a Leximancer analysis to identify the patterns of change within the stories. The analysis suggests changes occurred across three domains: course development, ICT capacity of teacher educators and ICT capacity of pre-service teachers with science teacher educators focussed in their course redevelopment on increasing preservice teacher knowledge and understandings, confidence and attitudes towards ICT.
Details
- Title
- Exploring curriculum development in science teacher education curriculum courses through most significant change stories
- Authors
- Deborah Heck (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and EngineeringTrudy-Ann Sweeney (Author) - Flinders University
- Publication details
- 44th Australasian Science Education Research Association Annual Conference Programme and Abstracts, pp.64-65
- Conference details
- Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) Annual Conference, 44th (Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand, 02-Jul-2013–05-Jul-2013)
- Publisher
- Australasian Science Education Research Association
- Date published
- 2013
- Organisation Unit
- School of Education - Legacy; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449093802621
- Output Type
- Abstract
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