Pre-service Science Teachers’ Understanding of Chemistry: A Factorial Design Study

TPACK for Pre-service Science and Mathematics Teachers

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Running head : PROSPECTIVE SCIENCE TEACHERS ’ UNDERSTANDING 1 Prospective Science Teachers ’ Understanding of Science and Engineering Practices

EFL Pre-service Teachers’ Concerns: A Reflective Practice

Central to the spirit of reflective teaching is the ability to focus critically on one’s own beliefs, cognitions, and concerns. Numerous proposals have been developed for implementing reflective practices in pre-service teacher education contexts with the aim of producing highly competent reflective teachers. However, it is imperative to identify the candidates’ beliefs and knowledge base befor...

Understanding Health Professional Responses to Service Disinvestment: A Qualitative Study

Background Disinvestment from inefficient health services may be a potential solution to rising healthcare costs, but there has been poor uptake of disinvestment recommendations. This Australian study aims to understand how health professionals react when confronted with a plan to disinvest from a health service they previously provided to their patients.   Methods This ...

Narrative journal experience of pre-service teachers in Practicum course

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine eight teacher students’ experiences in using the reflective narrative journal in the process of their Practicum.  Specifically, this study focused on capturing the essence of the experiences related to reactions, feelings and thoughts about the reflective narrative journal entries in Practicum process. Qualitative analysis revealed that ...