PEDAGOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND CHEMICAL KNOWLEDGE IN TEACHER EDUCATION: TEACHER IDENTITY BUILDING

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A Framework for Teacher Knowledge

Research in the area of educational technology has often been critiqued for a lack of theoretical grounding. In this article we propose a conceptual framework for educational technology by building on Shulman’s formulation of ‘‘pedagogical content knowledge’’ and extend it to the phenomenon of teachers integrating technology into their pedagogy. This framework is the result of 5 years of work o...

EFL Teacher Education in Iran: Does It Promote Trainees’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge?

Teacher education programs can play a principal role in helping prospective teachers to acquire requisite knowledge and skills. Vital to the issue of teacher education is the efficient evaluation of such programs in promoting prospective teachers’ knowledge base. However, the literature contains very few reports of the evaluation of the Iranian EFL preservice teacher education program, which is...

Networked Knowledge: Challenges for Teacher Education

Since 1990, the invention and popularization of the World Wide Web has caused an inversion in the information economy of education. Twenty years ago, when learners were set a task that required them to locate information about any but the most common topics, the challenge was most often to find relevant current information in the limited books and other resources available in the school, home o...

ICT Use in Science and Mathematics Teacher Education in Tanzania: Developing Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Currently, teacher education colleges in Tanzania are being equipped with computers to prepare teachers who can integrate technology in teaching. Despite these efforts, teachers are not embracing the use of technology in their teaching. This study adopted Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) as a framework for describing the knowledge and skills that pre-service teachers need to ...

Children's knowledge, teachers' knowledge: Implications for early childhood teacher education