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Preservice Science Teachers' Previous Experience, Beliefs, and Visions of Science Teaching and Learning  

Kang, Kyung-Hee (Dankook University)
Lee, Sun-Kyung (Dankook University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.24, no.1, 2004 , pp. 90-108 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is to understand preservice science teachers' previous experience, beliefs about teaching and learning, and visions of themselves as future teachers. The data were collected from two individual interviews with 7 voluntary students and analyzed qualitatively for category construction. As the results of this study, we presented two cases, which showed that their different views of teaching science are strongly related to their previous experiences as learners and observers in schools, and that there is the apparent consistency between each participant's beliefs about science teaching and learning and their own visions of teaching in a science classroom. Implications for preservice science teacher education related to the results were discussed.
Keywords
teacher education; student teaching; beliefs about teaching and learning; past experience; vision of teaching;
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