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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2020.40.3.307

Exploring Pre-Service Science Teachers' Positioning and Epistemic Understanding in a Course about Designing Inquiry-Based Lessons  

Ha, Heesoo (Busan National University of Education)
Kang, Eunhee (Seoul National University)
Kim, Heui-Baik (Seoul National University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.40, no.3, 2020 , pp. 307-320 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study explores how the positioning of two pre-service science teachers (PSTs) is reflected in their different epistemic understandings of inquiry-based lessons. We collected the PSTs' products during their design and enactment of an inquiry-based lesson and recorded their practices in the enacted lesson. Interviews were recorded and transcribed for analysis. The results indicate that one PST, Dohyung was positioned as a subject of evaluation throughout the course and the other, Jinwoo, was positioned as a preservice teacher and a subject of evaluation. Their positions were reflected in their epistemic understandings of inquiry-based lessons, which were developed when designing these lessons. During lesson design, both PSTs showed a shared understanding; they explained inquiry-based lessons as students setting and evaluating hypotheses under teachers' guidance. However, as they faced unexpected situations during lesson enactment, they developed different epistemic understandings. To receive a good grade, Dohyung showed a strong preference for anticipating situations that could occur in class and planning responses to them. He understood inquiry-based lessons as ones in which students conduct experiments to produce results expected by the teacher. On the other hand, Jinwoo emphasized the reasoning process based on students' prior knowledge and explained inquiry-based lessons as ones in which students construct new knowledge through a scientific reasoning process based on their knowledge. The findings of this study will contribute to developing strategies to support PSTs' development of their epistemic understandings of knowledge construction in inquiry-based lessons.
Keywords
inquiry-based learning; epistemic understanding; positioning; pre-service teacher; design of inquiry-based lessons;
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