Dissertations / Theses: 'Secondary pre-service teachers'

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Eryilmaz, Aysegul. "Development In Secondary Pre-service Mathematics Teachers." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12606075/index.pdf.

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The purpose of this study was to determine the fourteen pre-service mathematics teachers&rsquo
beliefs about mathematics and teaching and learning of mathematics, and their expectations and acquisitions of the Five Year Integrated Program in the Department of Secondary Science and Mathematics Education at Gazi University, Turkey, and the development in their beliefs during the last three semesters of the program. The data were collected through four longitudinal interviews from each participant. Data collection process began at the beginning of the spring semester of the 2002&ndash
2003 academic year and ended at the end of spring semester of the 2003&ndash
2004 academic year. The interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim to produce a complete record of the interviewees&rsquo
conversation. The findings that were gathered from analyses of individual interviews show that pre-service teachers came to teacher education programs with some beliefs about mathematics, and teaching and learning of it. The interviews have provided evidence that pre-service teachers seemed to develop some new beliefs about mathematics during the first 3.5 years of program, and that the courses of the last 1.5 years of the program improved and consolidated pre-service teachers&rsquo
attitudes towards and beliefs about mathematics, and beliefs about the teaching and learning of mathematics. The research findings lead to the conclusion that OFD406, OFD408, OFD509 and OFD501 courses were perceived as the most effective courses and OFD402, OFD410 and OFD507 courses were considered as the least effective courses of the program.

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Krim, Jessica Sarah. "Critical reflection and teacher capacity the secondary science pre-service teacher population /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/krim/KrimJ0809.pdf.

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This qualitative study seeks to understand the development of secondary science pre-service teachers. A case study is developed about each of the five participants, in effort to answer the research questions, which are: How did critical reflection inform teacher capacity within the secondary science pre-service teacher population? What knowledge, skills, and dispositions facilitated secondary science pre-service teachers in developing a critically reflective practice? It is the author's expectation that by teaching these pre-service educators to develop their skills of critical reflection by using external methods of assessment such as videotaping, peer feedback, and student work, the participants in this study will increase and expand their capacity as teachers, or their "innate potential for growth, development, and accomplishment" (McDiarmid & Clevenger-Bright, 2008), and be better prepared to accomplish the goals that are expected of a master teacher. Data is collected from interviews, participant work samples, and observations from the researcher and other key individuals who worked with each participant, such as: the methods instructor, university supervisors, and cooperating teachers. Over the course of two semesters, the researcher developed a detailed description of each of the participants through analyzing passages selected from interview transcripts and student work samples for reflection type, factor of teacher capacity, and commonplace interaction group. The first outcome of this study includes an understanding of the relationship between critical reflection and teacher capacity and the knowledge, skills and dispositions that facilitate the development of a critically reflective practice. The second outcome of this study was the development of a new adaptation of a teacher interaction model (commonplace interaction groups) based on Schwab's Commonplaces of Educating. Lastly, three conclusions were drawn about the five participants in this study: There was a change in the participants' reflection level from the methods semester to the student teaching semester, most shifted their focus of reflection from teacher-self to teacher-student, and the weakest area of reflection with all participants was content / subject area and curriculum / standards.

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Miller, David W. "Earth Science Literacy of Pre-Service and In-Service Elementary and Secondary School Teachers /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487934589975827.

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Dabia, Mustafa. "Developing pedagogic skills of Libyan pre-service teachers through reflective practice." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2012. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/367357/.

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Over the last two decades, teacher education (TE) has witnessed substantial changes in the way the divide between theory and practice is viewed. This has resulted in changes in the approaches used to deliver TE programmes. Since Dewey (1933), teacher educators have been concerned with how to prepare teachers who are reflective about what they are doing. Hence, there has been widely applied emphasis on the investigation of practice. This study describes the introduction of Reflective Practice (RP) to Libyan fourth-year trainee teachers to enhance their thinking about pedagogic skills. Its main aim is to examine to what extent trainee teachers will engage in a reflective practice (RP) programme, how they will reflect on their everyday understanding and practice and how they may improve their thinking about practice as a result. It describes how an action research study was conducted with a group of 30 prospective teachers over a period of 14 weeks and involved three phases. The first two phases lasted twelve weeks. In the first phase, the participants engaged in general discussions on instructional strategies, and this paved the way for the second phase, where there was in-college teaching practice. Finally, the participants practised teaching for two consecutive weeks in a real-life context, i.e. in a secondary school. The findings indicate that the implementation of RP in the Libyan context promoted a culture of observation and critical discussions in a setting that has traditionally been characterised as passive and non-reflective. The study indicates that RP is an essential component of pre-service teachers’ development. However, if we are to make more progress, we need to aim for more understanding of the pedagogic process that supports trainee teachers’ (TTs) pedagogic inquiry. This will require good collaborative work between colleges and schools, between educators and language tutors in schools and colleges, and among TTs themselves.

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Uzan, Erol. "Secondary Mathematics Pre-Service Teachers' Processes of Selection and Integration of Technology." Thesis, Indiana University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10690455.

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This study investigated secondary mathematics pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) knowledge of resources in terms of digital technologies, and explored the processes of both selection and integration of technology into their lesson plans. This study employed a case study design. Participants were six secondary mathematics PSTs who enrolled in a methods course. Data sources included technology portfolios submitted as a requirement in the methods course and semi-structured interviews. The types of digital technologies were classified either conveyance technologies which are used to convey information or cognitive technologies which enable users to perform mathematical actions and receive immediate feedback (Dick & Hollebrand, 2011). Each task in these lesson plans was evaluated by using the Task Analysis Guide (Stein, Smith, Henningsen, & Silver, 2009). Finally, the intended way of technology use was identified whether as amplifier which enables students to accomplish a task more efficiently and accurately or as recognizer which transforms students’ actions and enables them to reorganize their thinking (Pea, 1985).

The findings indicated that the PSTs’ technology knowledge was limited in terms of the content. It was clear that these PSTs’ technology knowledge, the capability of technology, ease of use, availability of technology in the context, students’ familiarity with technology, and appropriateness of technology to meet the learning objectives were the most important factors influencing their technology selection and integration. Furthermore, the findings exhibited that the PSTs preferred to build their lesson around with a high cognitive level tasks which were either doing mathematics or procedures with connections and their intended way of technology use in these tasks was identified as either an amplifier or a reorganizer. In general, the findings also revealed that when the level of cognitive demand of the selected task was doing mathematics, the intended way of the technology use in these tasks were as reorganizer.

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Bush, Brandon. "Validation of an Observation and Evaluation Instrument for the Supervision of Middle and Secondary Pre-Service Teachers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984136/.

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The purpose of the study was to determine the validity and reliability of a revised observation and evaluation instrument of middle and secondary pre-service clinical teaching to be used as part of the clinical supervision cycle and for formative purposes. The North Texas Appraisal of Classroom Teaching (NTACT) serves as a performance assessment tool utilized by a south-central university-based educator preparation program for the evaluation and supervision of pre-service teachers during their last semester of their program. The researcher piloted and field-tested a redesigned observation and evaluation instrument (NTACT-V2) on observer participants with varying educational experiences in the south-central region. To accumulate evidence of validity and reliability, this study employed methods of factor analysis and generalizability study for developing a valid and reliable instrument to guide the refinement process of the NTACT observation and evaluation instrument. Some of the significant conclusions reached in this study were (a) the NTACT-V2 is a practical, user-friendly classroom observation and evaluation instrument; (b) the instrument refined and developed in this study exhibits appropriate content, face, and criterion validity as determined by a panel of experts and an extensive review of the literature; and, (c) a variety of observers can use the evaluation instrument with relative ease while achieving a high degree of reliability.

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Waters, Kevin Stewart. "Pre-service secondary social studies teachers' efficacy towards character education a comparative study." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5081.

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Character education is one of the most controversial aspects of academic institutions in the United States. The responsibility of educating children about democratic principles and moral values is something many states and schools are taking very seriously as a vital part of a teacher's role in the classroom. This study investigated the personal teaching efficacy and general teaching efficacy beliefs of pre-service secondary teachers at a large university in the state of Florida. This study investigated the responses of 130 pre-service secondary teachers in language arts, science, social studies, and mathematics within one teacher education program. The questionnaire utilized in this quantitative research study was the Character Education Efficacy Belief Instrument (CEEBI), which was designed by Milson and Mehlig (2002). This instrument is composed of 24 items designed to understand personal teaching efficacy (PTE) and general teaching efficacy (GTE) beliefs. This study examined if there was a statistically significant difference in PTE and GTE scores between secondary pre-service teachers based on the independent variables of a) program/major, b) gender, c) race/ethnicity, and d) coursework in character education. The results of this survey adds to a rich field of research and literature on character education and teacher education by taking a closer look at the specific beliefs of secondary preservice teachers regarding their PTE and GTE for character education. This study was an attempt to better understand the teaching efficacy beliefs for secondary pre-service teachers graduating from a teacher preparation program within a state that mandates character education.
ID: 029810388; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-144).
Ph.D.
Doctorate
Education

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Chan, Kam-hung. "Problems experienced by pre-service PE teachers during their teaching practice in secondary schools in Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18886899.

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Watson, Cindy Gay. "Beliefs of Mathematics Pre-service Teachers About Project-based Learning." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699970/.

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This study explored the beliefs of pre-service secondary mathematics teachers about project-based learning (PBL), as they encountered a project-based learning high school where they implemented a project-based unit of instruction. A qualitative study was conducted with one undergraduate cohort in a higher education science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) national initiative that has 40 U.S. replication sites. Using teaching philosophy statements and focus group discussions, the beliefs of STEM pre-service secondary teachers are made visible. The findings from this study reveal a recurring theme: the process of how these pre-service teachers seemed to evolve and mature as teachers, from novice toward becoming an expert, as they asked themselves internal questions that are common to developing teachers. These pre-service STEM teachers experienced 1) internal questions about their own growth as a potential teacher, as evidenced through their verbal and written statements; 2) tension between PBL content and pedagogy; and 3) tension between practice and theory. The findings also infer that there are potential critical variables that may contribute to pre-service teachers’ beliefs. Those variables identified were the following: 1) the sequence of when the project-based instruction (PBI) course was taken; 2) time, as related to when the participant took the PBI course in relationship to the final semester when they were engaged in apprentice teaching; and 3) the field placement location during the apprentice teaching semester.

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Martin, M. C. "A phenomenological study of pre-service teachers' subject knowledge in secondary design and technology." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2017. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/6147/.

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This study explored the development of subject knowledge by pre-service teachers of Design and Technology (D&T) in secondary schools in England. In doing so it aimed to throw light on their lived experience of developing subject knowledge whilst on placement in schools. It was anticipated that this would help to identify the factors that shape what is learned and the ways in which pre-service teachers may be better prepared and supported for placement in the future. The study made use of phenomenology as a methodological approach in order to capture the lived experience of developing knowledge through the eyes of pre-service teachers. This was framed against an exploration of subject knowledge in Design and Technology and the extensive experience of the researcher in the field. Empirical data was gathered through a process of interviewing 11 participants three times during the course of one academic year. Processes of data reduction and explication were undertaken to explore individual experiences and aspects that they had in common. Findings from the study highlight the inadequacy of the term subject knowledge in describing the processes that take place. They demonstrate that pre-service teachers drawn on cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains in developing their understanding of materials and processes in preparation for teaching. The findings also highlight the complex, and interrelated nature of factors that affect the development of subject knowledge and the significant influence that the placement school arena, and teachers, have on shaping the nature of what can be learned. They also indicate that learning new knowledge is a central part of the experience and that developing ‘skills of knowing’ is essential. Key recommendations from the study include the preparation of pre-service teachers for their placement experiences by enabling them to understand how they learn completely new things. It is also recommended that the responsibility for the development of subject knowledge should be more in the hands of placement schools. Further work is also needed in exploring alternative ways of representing the processes that take place when knowledge is acquired by individuals as they become the teachers of the future.

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Nyirenda, Euginia Mukhala. "Zambian Secondary School Pre-service science Teachers' Pedagogical Orientations and Beliefs about science Teaching." OpenSIUC, 2019. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1711.

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The purpose of this explanatory sequential mixed methods study was fourfold: examine the pre-service science teachers' pedagogical orientations about science teaching; examine the pre-service science teachers' beliefs about science teaching; establish the extent to which the pre-service science teachers' pedagogical orientations correlate with their beliefs; and establish factors that shape the pedagogical orientations and beliefs of pre-service science teachers. A sample comprised 140 secondary school pre-service science teachers at three universities in Zambia. There were 102 males and 38 females. In the first phase, data were collected using the Pedagogy of Science Teaching Test (POSTT) that was adapted to suit the Zambian curriculum, and the Teacher Beliefs Interview (TBI) protocol. Whereas, in the second phase, a semi-structured interview was used to collect data. Twelve pre-service science teachers were interviewed to solicit in-depth information on the findings from the POSTT and TBI protocol.

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Ding, Lin, and 丁琳. "Changes in pedagogical content knowledge of secondary mathematics student teachers in Hangzhou during their pre-service teacher education." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/197110.

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The competence of mathematics teachers and how to prepare competent future mathematics teachers have been hotly debated in recent years; pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is a critical indictor of that competency (e.g., Ball & Bass, 2000; Ferrini-Mundy & Findell, 2010). This explorative study examines PCK and PCK change and the factors contributing to both among a group of secondary school mathematics student teachers in Hangzhou (the capital of and largest city in Zhejiang Province, China). Changes in PCK are investigated across the final two years of a pre-service secondary mathematics teacher education program. This program is traditional in nature, mainly consisting of mathematics teaching methods courses, teaching practica and advanced mathematics courses. Student teachers’ performance in three aspects of PCK — the substance of PCK, approaches to PCK and the structure of PCK — were assessed using a combination of quantitative and qualitative measures employed at two distinct stages of the program. At each stage, student teachers’ PCK was examined by a PCK questionnaire, a follow-up interview and three video-based interviews. The factors influencing PCK change were investigated using multiple phases and approaches of data collections. Specifically, rating schemes for each aspect of PCK were developed to evaluate student teachers’ responses and track the changes in their PCK. Interviews were conducted with student teachers at various stages of their professional growth to determine what they considered to be important factors affecting their PCK and changes to their PCK. In addition, observations of student teachers’ teaching practice during their teaching practica, together with interviews involving course instructors, mentor teachers and university teachers were employed to collect supplementary evidence on the impact of those factors. A quantitative analysis of the PCK questionnaire indicated that the participating student teachers generally did not perform well in PCK items in either stage. The follow-up interviews suggest that the different logic applied by the student teachers when responding to those items, their lack of sensitivity to contextual information, and their misunderstanding of terminology and incorrect assumptions all affected their performance. An additional qualitative analysis, based on three video-based interviews, indicated that student teachers’ overall performances in the three aspects of PCK improved in the second stage. Insights were gained into the major types of changes in PCK through paired responses. These changes were found to be influenced by changes in the student teachers’ knowledge of curriculum, of good examples/tasks/exercises, of clear lesson and teaching goals and of some affiliated affective factors. Other factors, including individual and social contextual factors, prior learning and tutoring experience, practicum experience and preparations for examinations and teaching competitions, are also examined for their direct or indirect impact on PCK. This study may contribute to current literature on the characteristics of Chinese student teachers’ PCK and PCK changes during the final two years of their pre-service teacher education. It provides a tentative explanation of how institutional and social contextual factors affect PCK and PCK change in different ways. Methodological and practical implications are also discussed.
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Education
Doctoral
Doctor of Philosophy

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Chan, Kam-hung, and 陳錦雄. "Problems experienced by pre-service PE teachers during their teaching practice in secondary schools in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31959222.

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Msomi, Dumile Dennis. "The pre-service preparation of secondary school mathematics teachers: a case study of curriculum effectiveness." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003594.

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The quality of education in most historically black schools is a source of concern for many people. The high failure rate in mathematics in particular, is believed to result in part, from the inadequacy of the teacher preparation programs at many of the colleges of education in the country. Esikhawini College of Education in KwaZulu-Natal is one of the colleges which is involved in the preparation of secondary school mathematics teachers. The appropriateness of the mathematics curriculum of this College was the subject of the study. In particular, the study aimed at the following: (i) To analyse aims and philosophies underlying the prescribed mathematics curriculum of the College. (ii) To establish the teacher educators' and student teachers' perceptions of the appropriateness of the curriculum in general. (iii) To establish the teacher educators' and student teachers' perceptions of the mathematics curriculum content and processes. (iv) To establish the quality of available materials used at the College for realisation of the curriculum goals. (v) To offer proposals and recommendations for the improvement of the education of prospective secondary mathematics teachers. Data about the perceptions of the appropriateness of the mathematics curriculum was gathered through a questionnaire which was administered to one hundred and one student teachers. The issues that arose from the questionnaire study were followed up by an interview study. The interview schedule was administered to a sample of fourteen student teachers and all six mathematics teacher educators in the College. In addition, a survey of mathematics materials available at the College library and in the mathematics department was carried out to collect further data. Some of the significant findings of the, study were : • Limitations in the College mathematics curriculum in as far as the curriculum content and processes were concerned. • Inadequacy of mathematics curriculum materials that were available and used at the College. • Low attainment in mathematics at matriculation level of most of the student teachers. • Widespread dissatisfaction with the curriculum, especially that of Mathematics Didactics. The implications of the findings for the College were considered. Amongst other suggestions is the suggestion that the College introduces a preliminary STD course in which prospective student teachers' mathematics background is enriched to enable them to cope with the demands of the College curriculum.

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Call, Ian. "Secondary pre-service teachers' knowledge and confidence in dealing with students' First Amendment rights in the classroom." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002339.

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Garnons-Williams, Victoria. "Art teacher pre-service education : a survey of the attitudes of Queensland secondary, and tertiary art educators." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26115.

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This study compares the views of three groups of art educators - secondary, tertiary pre-service lecturers, and scholars - about the content and structure considered important in art teacher pre-service education. Items of program content and structure, as well as issues in art-teacher preparation were gleaned from the writings of selected scholars and incorporated into a survey questionnaire. The survey was distributed to secondary art educators throughout Queensland and to art pre-service lecturers throughout Australia. An analysis of the results identifies areas and degrees of agreement and difference on items both within and between groups. The study can assist the development of art teacher pre-service programmes that reflect the values of both theoreticians and practitioners of art education.
Education, Faculty of
Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of
Graduate

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Parker, April C. Strutchens Marilyn E. "An exploratory study of the possible alignment between the beliefs and teaching practices of secondary mathematics pre-service teachers and their cooperating teachers and Its effects on the pre-service teachers' growth towards becoming reform based mathematics teachers." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2007%20Fall%20Dissertations/Parker_April_30.pdf.

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Dicicco, Michael. "Picturing the Reader: English Education Pre-service Teachers' Beliefs About Reading Using Photovoice." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5210.

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As students begin secondary school, they are charged with learning more content, at a faster pace and with increased pressure from accountability measures (Dreschler, Shumaker, & Woodruff, 2004). If secondary students' reading difficulties are not identified and remedied, the gap between struggling readers and their peers widens every academic year (Edmonds, Vaughn, Wexler, Rutebuch, Cable, Tackett, and Schnakenberg, 2009). The task of reading instruction primarily falls on English teachers, but Strickland and Alvermann (2004) note that while secondary English Teachers do have more preparation in reading instruction compared to other content area teachers, they are not as prepared as they need to be and do not provide reading instruction even when given the opportunity. Additionally, little attention has been given to how teacher should be taught to teach reading (Moats & Foorman, 2003) and even less attention has been given to reading instruction at the secondary level (Edmonds, et al., 2009). Pre-service teacher's beliefs influence how they take in information presented in their teacher education program and classroom instructional decisions (Holt-Reynolds, 1992; Richardson, 2003). However few studies have examined English education pre-service teachers beliefs about teaching struggling readers at the secondary level. The purpose of this study is to describe and explain secondary English education pre-service teachers' beliefs about teaching struggling readers using Photovoice. This study uses a combination of constructivism, Lakoff and Johnson's concept of metaphor, and interpretivism as the theoretical framework. Research methods examining beliefs often involve using surveys or interviews (i.e. Sadaf, Newby, & Ertmer, 2012; Sandvik, van Dall, & Ader, 2013). However, these methods may not provide as representational responses as a method that allows participants to respond through multiple mediums and through metaphor. This study uses a modified version of the Photovoice method to examine secondary English education pre-service teachers' beliefs. Because Photovoice has not been used to examine beliefs of this population, an additional aim of this study is to examine Photovoice as a reflection method. The research questions guiding this study are: 1. What are English education pre-service teacher beliefs' about teaching struggling adolescent readers? 2. What are English education pre-service teacher beliefs about themselves as readers? 3. In what ways, if any, did Photovoice facilitate reflection on beliefs about reading instruction? Findings suggest English education pre-service teachers had not considered struggling readers as part of their classrooms, did not understand the complexities of the reading process, held a deficit view of struggling readers, assumed a teacher's identity, saw reading as an experience/event, found the discussion in the Photovoice process helpful in reflection, Photovoice helped address some issues with teacher reflection, and Photovoice helped develop as well as capture beliefs. Implications for teacher education are discussed.

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Smeal, Mary Alice Strutchens Marilyn E. "Exploring beliefs and practices of teachers of secondary mathematics who participated in a standards-based pre-service education program." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1442.

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Mudzimiri, Rejoice. "A study of the development of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) in pre-service secondary mathematics teachers." Diss., Montana State University, 2012. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2012/mudzimiri/MudzimiriR0812.pdf.

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The Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework is a relatively new construct that offers a useful perspective from which to understand the development of pre-service teachers' abilities in teaching with technology. It is grounded in the understanding that if teachers are to effectively integrate technology into their instruction, they need to integrate their knowledge of content, pedagogy and technology, instead of viewing these components as separate entities. Current efforts to develop TPACK in pre-service teachers have tended to focus on experiences in either a methods course or an educational technology course. It is admittedly difficult to adequately address technology, pedagogy and content in a single college course. Therefore, this study proposes using three courses that are offered in collaboration, a mathematics teaching methods course, a technology-intensive content-rich mathematical modeling course, and a practicum course, to study the development of connections between technology, content and pedagogy. For this multiple case study, TPACK changes in five pre-service teachers were tracked during a period of about 15 weeks. Data were collected using a TPACK survey, teaching philosophy statements, lesson plans, student teaching episodes, and weekly instructor meeting notes. A detailed analysis of the results demonstrates that the development of pre-service teachers' mathematics TPACK is complex, and there are a number of factors that are at play, such as the pre-service teachers' prior experiences with technology, their mathematical backgrounds and their beliefs about the use of technology in mathematics instruction. Assessing the development of TPACK in pre-service teachers is complicated by the fact that the available model for mathematics teachers' TPACK was developed using observations of in-service mathematics teachers.

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Kinley. "Beliefs, knowledge and skills of pre-service mathematics teachers when learning calculus through a technology-enhanced inquiry." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/213589/1/_Kinley_Thesis.pdf.

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This research explored the beliefs, knowledge and skills of Bhutanese pre-service mathematics teachers and their preparedness to teach a reformed mathematics curriculum. Data were collected when the participants joined a series of inquiry-oriented, technology-enabled calculus workshops. These data analyses revealed many inconsistencies between the participants’ espoused and enacted beliefs and misalignments between their mathematical knowledge and skills when compared to the intentions of the newly reformed curriculum. From this, implications have been drawn about the preparedness of the soon-to-graduate pre-service mathematics teachers, and recommendations are made regarding ways future pre-service teachers mathematical beliefs, knowledge and skills may be enhanced.

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Skillen, Matthew Glen. "“I hope I get it. I do hope I figure it out.”: pre-service secondary language arts teachers’ negotiations of high school students’ literacies." Diss., Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1628.

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Doctor of Philosophy
Curriculum and Instruction Programs
F. Todd Goodson
As the curriculum of American schools becomes more standardized, while teachers face the elevated levels of accountability, and definition of adolescent literacy rapidly expands, teacher education programs must do more to help pre-service teachers prepare for the realities of public education (Boyd, Ariail, Williams, Jocson, & Sachs, 2006). Among these realities exists the looming pressure to demonstrate the ability to help students succeed on standardized assessments that test comprehension-based literacy skills. Meyer (1999) suggests two sets of teacher education reforms have emerged as a result of rising awareness of adolescent literacy in public schools. Meyer (1999) explains “one set focus[es] on the content of teacher education—what courses and topics should be included—and another set focus[es] on the structure—where and when should teacher education take place and who should manage it” (p. 459). In addressing the second set of teacher education reforms, pre-service teachers are often afforded the opportunity to gain valuable professional training in public school classrooms, as field experiences are increasingly seen as an integral piece in the training of pre-service teachers. And, though these initiatives have shown improvement in teacher education, there are concerns, specifically in the field of language arts, that new teachers are not successfully negotiating the void that exists between theory and practice that is evident in some public school settings. So, with an expanding definition of literacy, and the rising awareness of secondary students’ literacy practices, there is a concern that pre-service teachers may in fact be unprepared to negotiate the demands of the career they have chosen for themselves. This study sets out to examine this problem. In preparing for a career in public education, certain expectations are formed by the teacher candidate based on what he or she understands adolescents should be able to do. These expectations are formed from a variety of sources. This study utilizes narrative inquiry to investigate the experiences of pre-service undergraduate language arts teachers who are completing a series of arranged field experiences. This study uses the stories of the participants to examine how the expectations of undergraduate pre-service language arts teachers are formed in regards to the range of high school students’ literacies. The data collected in this study indicate that while each participant in the study is operating from a different life stage, each has developed her own understanding of literacy and has the ability to apply that understanding to improve her practice. The ways in which these individually unique understandings of literacy vary widely and are, by in large, based on the personal experiences of each participant. This narrative study utilizes narrative analysis to investigate the storied experiences of three pre-service language arts teachers, on traditional undergraduate, one nontraditional undergraduate, and one self proclaimed “semi-nontraditional” undergraduate. Throughout the inquiry period, the primary research participants completed a field experience at a public high school located in American Midwest. During this field experience, each primary participant assisted a classroom teacher and tutored high school students during a common study hall period. Data was collected from a variety of sources including: personal interviews, video taped observations, reflective journals, and field notes. The storied experiences provided by the primary participants and field data were then reconstructed into narratives that present a meaningful representation of each participant’s experience in the field. These narratives also served as a meaningful platform for discussion in the final chapter of the report. The results of the study indicate that the participants base their expectations of high school students’ literacies on their own personal experiences. Throughout the inquiry period, each participant recalled their own experiences as a high school student when referencing literacy practices of the high school students under their direction. The narratives further illustrate noticeable differences in the understandings of literacy between the traditional and non-traditional participants. Where as the traditional undergraduates in the study were more reflective in their assessment of high school students’ literacies, the non-traditional undergraduate was more active in meeting the needs of the students she tutored and assisted during the field experience. In addition to providing answers to the primary and secondary research questions that investigate the participants’ developing expectations in terms of high school students’ literacies, the data also present themes that contribute to a better understanding of how the three pre-service language arts teachers negotiate the challenges that come with the major life transition of entering the professional workforce as a schoolteacher. While all three participants represent three different populations of undergraduate college students (i.e.: traditional, “semi-nontraditional”, and nontraditional), common themes of fear and uncertainty are present in each participant’s narrative. While these results are reminiscent of Fuller’s (1969) findings, it is important to understand that these feelings of fear and uncertainty are still present after forty years of advancements in teacher education. Which leads to further examination of the experiences these three participants have shared about the training they have received. Additionally, because each participant’s life experiences vary greatly from the other participants in the study, these feelings of fear and uncertainty are manifested differently for each participant. The findings of this study could have lasting implications to the fields of adolescent literacy and teacher education. While the definition of literacy is expanding to include not only academic literacy but social literacy practices that students experience beyond the classroom, the data in this study indicate that the participants who are close in age to the students the are preparing to teach seem open minded to use alternative texts that support academic literacies while encouraging students to explore their own interests. Additionally, each participant shared that she could benefit from more extensive field experiences where she could learn more about teaching as it is done in the field. And, as the data collected in this study indicate, more varied experiences tend to provide undergraduates with the necessary context to more successfully negotiate the demands of providing quality instruction.

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Olivero, María Matilde. "Cultivating Peace via Language Teaching: Pre-Service Teachers' Beliefs and Emotions in an EFL Argentine Practicum." Scholar Commons, 2017. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7432.

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In order to understand the intricate processes involved in second language teacher development, in the last decade studies in second language teacher education (SLTE) have addressed the need to explore pre-service teachers’ beliefs and emotions jointly as they occur in their contexts of teaching. SLTE researchers have referred to the importance of helping pre-service teachers verbalize their beliefs and try to understand and regulate their emotions as they can serve to explain what, how, and why pre-service teachers do what they do during their practicum experience. In addition, considering future teachers will be passing on their beliefs, values, and ways of behaving and feeling to future generations, SLTE should offer pre-service teachers with models of teaching that will help form ethical, reflective, and emotionally intelligent professionals capable of transforming society. The clamor for peace in today’s world and the globalized nature of the English language emphasize the need to embrace practices in SLTE intended to foster peace. In Argentina (the context of the present study) such practices carry particular relevance, as it is expected from the Ministry of Education that the teaching of foreign languages at primary and high school level serve as tools to promote societal peace. Given the importance of exploring pre-service teachers’ beliefs together with emotions, and on the importance of providing them with holistic approaches to teaching aimed at expanding peace, this study examines pre-service teachers’ beliefs and emotions about an innovative intervention involving the language of peace throughout their practicum semester in an Argentine setting. More specifically, through multiple case studies and narrative approaches, this study investigates four pre-service teachers’ beliefs and emotions regarding peace and the implementation of multidimensional peace language activities (MPLAs) before, during, and after their Practicum I course. In addition, it aims at comparing participants’ beliefs and emotions with their actions as reflected in their lesson plans and in-school teaching experience. Finally, it traces pre-service teachers’ transformation of beliefs and emotions throughout the course, and examines the ways in which reflection facilitates teacher development. Multiple sources were used for data collection, including semi-structured interviews, journal entries, field-notes from classroom observations, lesson plans, and narrative frames. The thematic and content analysis of the data revealed that in general participants believed the MPLA intervention in the practicum (a) gave participants meaningful English exposure, (b) changed their understanding of peace and enhanced their ability to teach peace in EFL classrooms, and (c) led to a more transformative practicum experience. By embodying multidimensional peace the participants were able to become conscious of their beliefs, emotions, and actions regarding the inclusion of MPLAs and understand their teaching practices better, thereby allowing themselves to develop as teachers and peacebuilders. However, it was noted that two pre-service teachers were not able to include as many MPLAs as they had desired, due to contextual factors and previous learning experiences, among other aspects. Limitations of the study are addressed, as well as research and pedagogical implications for the field of SLTE that relate to the need to incorporate holistic, experiential, and contemplative approaches intended to cultivate multidimensional peace.

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Yang, Hsiao-Ching. "How well are secondary social studies teachers prepared to teach global education? Pre-service teacher and faculty’s perspectives of the implementation of global education in teacher education programs in Taiwan." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1291205830.

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Layden, Scott Christopher. "Investigating the relationship between pre-service teachers' attention to student thinking during lesson planning and the level of cognitive demand at which tasks are implemented." Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10075904.

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This study investigated the relationship between attention to student thinking during lesson planning and the level of cognitive demand at which tasks are implemented for six pre-service teachers enrolled in a teacher education program that focuses on attention to student thinking during planning and instruction. Lesson plans were examined for attention to student thinking using two coding schemes, and samples of student work were examined to assess the level of cognitive demand at which tasks (associated with the enacted lesson plans) were implemented during instruction. Other planning related data sources were qualitatively drawn upon to support the extent to which pre-service teachers focused on student thinking with regard to planning.

One of the lesson planning coding schemes provides numerical scores indicating different degrees of attention to six elements of student thinking. The level of cognitive demand of task implementation for each lesson was able to be coded as high or low. In particular, the quantitative analysis suggested a trend that as overall attention to student thinking during lesson planning increases the odds of high level task implementation become greater compared to the odds of low level task implementation. Given a small sample size the quantitative results need to be considered within their limitations.

Qualitative analysis examining attention to student thinking during planning and task implementation supports the quantitative trend. In particular, the qualitative analysis suggests three findings. The first finding is that the two pre-service teachers who demonstrated the most attention to student thinking with regard to planning were the only pre-service teachers who implemented all of their tasks at a high level of cognitive demand. The second finding is that when receiving specific planning based support for a lesson as part of a university assignment, all the pre-service teachers were able to implement the task at high level of cognitive demand. The third finding is that a large majority of lessons using tasks accompanied by detailed planning support sources were implemented at high levels of cognitive demand.

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Knight, Kathleen Chesley. "An Investigation into the Change in the Van Hiele Levels of Understanding Geometry of Pre-service Elementary and Secondary Mathematics Teachers." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/KnightKC2006.pdf.

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Jawawi, Rosmawijah. "Conceptions of economics pre-service teachers' use of subject knowledge in teaching economics and commerce at secondary schools in Brunei Darussalam." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10019880/.

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Walker, Adrian A. "The perceived impact of pre-service student teachers on the optimal learning environment of the students they teach and the teachers who mentor them." Diss., Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18693.

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Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
M. Gail Shroyer
This study was designed to examine one component of impact within a High School Professional Development School (PDS) partnership. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceived impact of pre-service teachers on the students they teach and the cooperating teachers who mentor them. More specifically, this study was designed to explore the impact on the learning environment of high school students who were taught by pre-service teachers and the cooperating teachers who mentored them from the perspective of 8 pre-service teachers, 130 high school students, and 8 cooperating teachers. The theoretical framework for this study was based on the concept of an Optimal Learning Environment (National Research Council, 1999). The overarching question for this study was: In what ways do pre-service teachers impact the learning environment of the PDS in which they complete their final clinical experience? Survey and interview data were gathered from participants to explore the perceived impact of the pre-service teachers on the (a) learner centered learning environment, (b) assessment centered learning environment, and (c) knowledge centered learning environment of the high school students and cooperating mentor teachers. The data collected were focused on what the high school students, pre-service teachers and cooperating mentor teachers perceived based on their personal experiences and understanding. The results of this study indicated a perceived positive impact on the learner centered, assessment centered, and knowledge centered learning environments of the high school students and the cooperating mentor teachers from the perspectives of the high school students, pre-service teachers and cooperating mentor teachers. The researcher thus concluded that the pre-service teachers positively impacted the perceived Optimal Learning Environment of the PDS in which they completed their final clinical experience.

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Hendricks, Mogamat Armien. "An investigation into the pre-service training of secondary school mathematics teachers at colleges of education administered by the House of Representatives." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004591.

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This study involves an investigatioh into the nature and effectiveness of the pre-service training, where provided, of secondary school Mathematics teachers at the 11 colleges of education administered by the House of Representatives in the Republic of South Africa. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the HDE (Secondary) course offered at some of the aforementioned colleges of education is justified, In spite of the fact that it contravenes the requirements of the Education Act, No. 73 of 1969. Three different questionnaires were designed and during 1986 were sent to heads of Mathematics departments at the aforementioned colleges of education , to Mathematics teacher educators at these colleges and to beginning secondary school Mathematics teachers, teaching at schools administered by the House of Representatives in the Eastern Cape and Natal. The findings of this study show that the secondary course for Mathematics teachers is only offered at 5 of the 11 colleges of education and only a small percentage of students take this course. During 1986 most of the Mathematics teacher educators at the colleges of education were not suitably qualified. The study also shows that the Mathematics curriculum for the training of secondary school teachers is inadequate and a revision thereof is thus recommended. An obvious conclusion drawn from the findings is that the training of secondary school Mathematics teachers at these colleges of education is still in an early stage of development. One of the main recommendations of this study is that the training of secondary school Mathematics teachers at colleges of education administered by the House of Representatives should be terminated , in view of its ineffectiveness and In accordance with Education Act , No . 73 of 1969. On the other hand, in case this is not possible, suggestions are also made for the improvement of the pre-service training of secondary school mathematics teachers at these colleges of education.

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Mniki, Claribel Pumzile. "A survey of the curricula for the pre-service education of secondary school geography teachers in South Africa, with special reference to Transkei." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001406.

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Programmes designed for the pre-service education of secondary school geography teachers reflect the assumptions held by programme designers regarding the nature of education, teaching in general and geography teaching in particular. The general practice is that in universities, individual method lecturers design their programmes and in colleges within a department of education the programmes are centrally planned. Each programme focuses on a specific context. This, together with the autonomy enjoyed by university method lecturers in designing their courses, has resulted in the variations found in geography teacher education programmes. The evidence of this is found in the structure and duration of courses, the course content, the strategies used to educate teachers and the way in which the course is evaluated. This thesis is an attempt to establish consensus and divergence in pre-service education programmes for secondary school geography teachers regarding their organisation, specific knowledge imparted to student teachers; skills, values and attitudes developed. The pre-service education of secondary school geography teachers in South Africa is revealed in an analysis of views held by method lecturers, practising teachers in secondary schools, and student teachers and an analysis of course outlines , teaching practice assessment forms and geography method examination papers. Conclusions are drawn and recommendations made for improving the initial education of secondary school geography teachers in Transkei

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Schafer, Cynthia Marie. "A Deliberate Reconstruction and Reconfiguring of Women in History: One Teacher's Attempt at Transforming a U.S. History Curriculum." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03202007-205131/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.
Title from file title page. Chara H. Bohan, committee chair; John K. Lee, Susan Talburt, Joyce E. Many, committee members. Electronic text (151 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 25, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-138).

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Skillen, Matthew Glen. ""I hope I get it. I do hope I figure it out.": pre-service secondary language arts teachers' negotiations of high school students' literacy's." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1628.

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Terrell, Karen L. "Academic Language and Mathematics: A Study of the Effects of a Content and Language-Integration Intervention on the Preparation of Secondary Mathematics Pre-Service Teachers." Thesis, Boston College, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2607.

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Thesis advisor: Lillie R. Albert
Researchers have found that as students progress through school, the importance of language grows due to the content specificity that emerges, especially in the secondary grades, and due to the preparation of these students to enter adulthood once their schooling is completed. Even as students' instruction in various content areas becomes more in-depth and specialized, so does the terminology employed in the content. It is because of this specificity and union of language and learning that English-language learners' (ELLs') ability to comprehend and produce content-area academic language is crucial to their success. When questioning the quality of instruction ELLs are receiving in mathematics, the attention logically shifts to the pedagogical abilities of their teachers. However, historically, mathematics teachers have lacked language-acquisition knowledge and strategies necessary to adequately address the needs of linguistically diverse learners. In order to authentically promote and pursue quality mathematics education for all students, teachers of mathematics must be trained in recognizing the language demands of mathematics and in applying or developing strategies to address the nuances of the language in this subject area. The research in this study contributes to this work. This dissertation documents the effects of an intervention, woven into a secondary mathematics methods course and designed to prepare mathematics teachers to support ELLs' content and language learning. The study was based on the assumption that mathematics is much more than computations, and thus, requires a shift in the how the role of the mathematics teacher is viewed. Both qualitative and quantitative empirical evidence regarding the intervention's influence on the participants' attitudes and preparedness to teach the academic language of mathematics were generated. Twenty-nine students over the course of two years took part in this research. Five students from the second year were selected for an in-depth case study based on their range of experiences with learning other languages, interactions with linguistically diverse youth, and practicum placements for the subsequent spring semester. The larger group of preservice teachers was surveyed at the beginning and end of their enrollment in the course, and their course assignments were collected. In addition, case-study participants were interviewed at the start and completion of the semester, and their practicum-office submissions were examined. A framework to encourage pupils' acquisition of mathematical academic language is proposed. Essential outcomes indicate that the intervention not only affected the participants' beliefs and attitudes towards their own preparedness for teaching ELLs in mainstream mathematics classes, but also it imparted concrete strategies for the modification of teaching and learning experiences in the preservice teachers' future practices. The results of this study correlate to existing literature regarding linguistically responsive pedagogy and extend this theory by integrating language-acquisition strategies throughout a content-methods course for the middle- and high-school levels
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction

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Mooney, Evan. ""Because purpose is not a goal. It's a journey": How Experiences of Social Studies Teaching and Learning Contribute to the Development of Pre-Service Social Studies Teachers' Purposes for Teaching." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1448024165.

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Silva, Thaís Leal da Cruz. "Futuros professores de matemática: concepções, memórias e escolha profissional." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2013. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6048.

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This masters thesis, focusing on mathematics education, is linked to the Graduate Education Program, of the Education Center at Federal University of Espírito Santo - Brasil (UFES). The study investigated conceptions, memories and career choice of undergraduate pre-service secondary mathematics teachers from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Espírito Santo (Ifes) - Brazil in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim campus. The studies of Ernest, Gómez Chacón, Lorenzato, Bridge, Santos, Santos-Wagner, and Thompson, among others offered theoretical support for this work. These studies show how much relevant is to value the conceptions of teachers and students relative to mathematics, and how it can interfere with the training, learning and performance of these individuals, in the environment in which they live. We followed a class of the undergraduate pre-service secondary mathematics teacher education course for a year, between the second and fourth period of the course. The study methodology was qualitative and adopted features of ethnographic research. The gathering and the production of data were performed by classroom observations, conversations, interviews, questionnaires and tasks proposed to undergraduates. Furthermore, we gave constantly feedback to the students to confirm data recorded and interpretations with them. The study showed that participants exhibited more than one conception about mathematics and furnished cues that differentiated their thoughts about mathematics and mathematics teaching. We noted that experiences with mathematics influence the undergraduates conceptions about this discipline and pedagogical aspects, as well as the professional choice. The teachers, the kinds of classes that students experienced, the social and family environment were important elements in the individual formation and conceptions about mathematics and mathematic teaching. The participants showed mathematics conceptions and study habits different in relation to the mathematics studied in basic education and college. The research process and its constant feedback contributed to improve the undergraduates knowledge about themselves, and for some students to become self-conscious about how they have been dedicating to the undergraduate secondary mathematics teacher course
Este trabalho de mestrado, com foco na educação matemática, vincula-se ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação do Centro de Educação da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. O estudo investigou concepções, memórias e escolha profissional de licenciandos em matemática, do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Espírito Santo (Ifes), no campus de Cachoeiro de Itapemirim. Os estudos de Ernest, Gómez Chacón, Lorenzato, Ponte, Santos, Santos-Wagner, e Thompson, dentre outros, ofereceram aportes teóricos para este trabalho. Estes estudos mostram o quanto é relevante valorizar concepções de professores e alunos, em relação à matemática e o quanto isso pode interferir na formação, aprendizagem e atuação desses indivíduos no ambiente em que estudam, aprendem e vivem. Acompanhamos uma turma do curso de licenciatura em matemática durante um ano, entre o segundo e o quarto período do curso. A metodologia do estudo teve natureza qualitativa e adotou recursos da pesquisa do tipo etnográfica. A coleta e a produção de dados foram realizadas por meio de observações de aulas, conversas, entrevistas, questionários e tarefas propostas aos licenciandos. Além disso, realizamos momentos de retorno da pesquisa para confirmar dados e interpretações com os participantes. Em nosso estudo, percebemos que os participantes exibiam mais de uma concepção sobre a matemática e forneciam pistas que diferenciavam seus pensamentos, a respeito da matemática e de seu ensino. Notamos que experiências com a matemática influenciam concepções dos licenciandos sobre a disciplina e seus aspectos pedagógicos, assim como a escolha profissional. Os professores, os tipos de aulas que os alunos vivenciaram, o ambiente social e familiar foram elementos importantes na formação do indivíduo e nas suas concepções, a respeito de matemática e seu ensino. Os participantes apresentaram concepções e hábitos de estudos distintos, em relação à matemática estudada na educação básica e na faculdade. O processo de pesquisa e o constante retorno aos participantes contribuíram para que os licenciandos se conhecessem melhor e para que alguns alunos se conscientizassem a respeito do quanto estão se dedicando para o curso de licenciatura

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Henderson, John Tolliver. "Pre-service Secondary Mathematics Teachersâ Preferences of Statistical Representations of Univariate Data." NCSU, 2008. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06192008-130035/.

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This study was designed to analyze if preferences for certain statistical representations existed for a group of pre-service secondary mathematics teachers. Twenty-three surveys were distributed to two classes of pre-service teachers enrolled in a mathematic education course and 18 competed surveys were returned. Questions on the survey focused on five major statistical ideas: (1) typical value for a data set, (2) standard deviation, (3) spread/distribution of a data set, (4) recognition/effect of outliers, and (5) comparing two or more data sets. Students were asked to indicate the representation that they found most helpful in answering these questions. Students chose from box plots, dot plots, histograms, and data tables. The conclusions drawn from this study involved the use of two types of statistical analyses combined with observed trends within the data. A goodness of fit test determined that within each of the main ideas, representational preferences existed. Confidence intervals were used in combination with observed preferences to determine if and where individual representational preferences existed. The results indicated that these pre-service teachers typically focused on median as typical value for a data set, felt that any of the graphs could be used to determine distribution, lacked a complete understanding of standard deviation, and that their initial focus on individual points when recognizing outliers developed into a more global view of the data as they reasoned about the outliersâ effects. Discussions and implications from this survey along with recommendations for future research are included.

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Osta, Iman M. "From Physical Model To Proof For Understanding Via DGS: Interplay Among Environments." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-80806.

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The widespread use of Dynamic Geometry Software (DGS) is raising many interesting questions and discussions as to the necessity, usefulness and meaning of proof in school mathematics. With these questions in mind, a didactical sequence on the topic “Conics” was developed in a teacher education course tailored for pre-service secondary math methods course. The idea of the didactical sequence is to introduce “Conics” using a concrete manipulative approach (paper folding) then an explorative DGS-based construction activity embedding the need for a proof. For that purpose, the DGS software serves as an intermediary tool, used to bridge the gap between the physical model and the formal symbolic system of proof. The paper will present an analysis of participants’ geometric thinking strategies, featuring proof as an embedded process in geometric construction situations.

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Osta, Iman M. "From Physical Model To Proof For Understanding Via DGS:Interplay Among Environments." Proceedings of the tenth International Conference Models in Developing Mathematics Education. - Dresden : Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, 2009. - S. 464 - 468, 2012. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A1798.

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The widespread use of Dynamic Geometry Software (DGS) is raising many interesting questions and discussions as to the necessity, usefulness and meaning of proof in school mathematics. With these questions in mind, a didactical sequence on the topic “Conics” was developed in a teacher education course tailored for pre-service secondary math methods course. The idea of the didactical sequence is to introduce “Conics” using a concrete manipulative approach (paper folding) then an explorative DGS-based construction activity embedding the need for a proof. For that purpose, the DGS software serves as an intermediary tool, used to bridge the gap between the physical model and the formal symbolic system of proof. The paper will present an analysis of participants’ geometric thinking strategies, featuring proof as an embedded process in geometric construction situations.

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Brooks, Sean M. "Urban High School Educators' Perceptions of Pre-Service and In-Service Conflict Resolution and Violence Prevention Education." Thesis, Walden University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10747045.

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Studies have shown that conflict resolution and violence prevention education may be lacking within school-based environments. There is a gap in the literature regarding pre-service and in-service conflict resolution and violence prevention education for urban high school educators. The purpose of the study was to understand the experiences and perceptions of urban high school educators’ pre-service and in-service conflict resolution and violence prevention education, and the student health-related antecedents that contribute to both. Utilizing a case study methodology, this study emphasized the diverse geographic locations of urban high school educators’ pre-service institutions and the perceptions of their pre-service and in-service education regarding 5 student health-related antecedents to conflict and violence in school. Data collection included individual audio-recorded interviews and a follow-up focus group. Data was analyzed by participant’s responses to interview questions that aligned with research questions. Data was then coded, cross-coded, and triangulated to generate themes. The results indicated that pre-service teacher education programs are not addressing conflict resolution and violence prevention in schools among pre-service teachers. Further, study findings indicate that teachers and administrators are currently experiencing student health-related antecedents to conflict and violence in school. Research findings also indicated that in-service training is failing to address these critical issues. This study could impact positive social change by implementing relevant and innovative education within pre-service and in-service educator training to address school-level violence.

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Palmer, Brent L. "Teacher Passion as a Teaching Tool." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3269.

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The purpose of this phenomenological case study was to understand how passion is used by participating teachers at Hugo High School and if its use is intentional in the classroom. A qualitative research design was used for this study. The case study was determined to be the most appropriate method for this research because it provided an opportunity to get a deeper understanding of the research topic. This study used Fried’s definition of passion as one who is “in love with a field of knowledge, deeply stirred by issues and ideas that challenge our world, drawn to the dilemmas and potentials of the young people who come into class each day – or captivated by all of these” (Fried, 2001, p. 1). The research data were collected from nine teachers about their use of passion in the classroom. The constant comparative method is an important tool to sort data in the coding process; it was used to take information from the data, compare it to previous data, and sort it into six themes. The findings indicate that teachers used passion as a teaching tool and that passionate teaching was used by all teachers in the study. Passion was experienced through the care that teachers felt for their students. Teachers who did not plan to use passion used passion when the opportunity was present and realized by the teacher. Using passion was a positive experience for teachers. Teachers who did not plan to use passion recognized changes in their behavior and felt good about themselves as teachers. Teachers who intended to use passion planned many of their own behaviors and felt good about themselves as teachers when experiencing passionate lessons. Teachers’ feelings were fueled by positive student feedback and perpetuated passionate teaching moments.

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Skopin, John Cyril. "The Relationship Between Pre-Service Teacher Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Teach at the Elementary or Secondary Level /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487935125880189.

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Ngwaru, Cathrine. "Improving Pre-Service Teacher Development Practices in English as a Second Language: A case of Secondary School Teacher Preparation at Great Zimbabwe University in Zimbabwe." University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6373.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD ( Language Education)
Ordinarily, Teacher Development at the level of Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) at Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) comes in two major phases spread over four years - the theoretical and the practical based phases. The theoretical phase comes in the form of courses based on pedagogical content and professional knowledge in the initial years at the university while the practical based phase comes in the form of school-based Teaching Practice (TP) for real and direct teaching experiences. The initial theoretical phase is often based on the liberal arts-like education to develop the whole teacher for adaptable life-long service. This is translated by a number of subject that can vary according the dictates of the focus of a particular national curriculum. TP on the other hand, provides student-teachers the opportunity to apply not only the knowledge acquired in the initial phase but also the schoolbased curriculum they are immersed in plus other contextual experiences they might have. If well-structured and blended, the two phases may ensure a smooth transition from a novice student teacher to an expert professional teacher for long-life practice.

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Fleet, Beverly Ann. "A survey of Newfoundland and Labrador's post-secondary instructors and their employers regarding their views of the importance of pre-service teacher training for post-secondary instructors." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0004/MQ42378.pdf.

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Hsiang, Yung-Lai Michelle. "Technology-Assisted-Reflection: A Study of Pre-service Teacher Education in Middle School Language Arts and Social Studies and Secondary English Education and Social Studies." NCSU, 1999. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-19991001-144519.

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The purpose of this quasi-experimental research was to examine a new approach to information delivery and communication within Teacher Education courses. Advanced technologies in the Internet, Listserv, E-mail, NetForum and electronic forms were integrated, and the learning was guided by the clinical analysis/reflection and structured self-evaluation in a differentiated environment to promote individual development in both cognition and ethics.A cluster sample of sixty-eight pre-service teachers enrolled in the Introduction to Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences course in the Spring of 1999 at the North Carolina State University. Both pretest and posttest were conducted using Defining Issues Test by James Rest for the evaluation of moral growth of the students and Computing Concerns Questionnaire by Jean Martin for the concerns of the students in computing. The qualitative conclusion reached by the researcher suggested students have improved in both quantity and quality of their work more than previous semesters. The quantitative data showed a trend of decrease in students' concerns with regard to computing through Technology-Assisted-Reflection. Despite the statistically insignificant result, study indicated moral development of our pre-service teachers at the Stage 4 of moral development, which is within the norm of the national standard for undergraduate students.

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Yi-JinChung and 鍾宜君. "Pre-service Secondary Teachers’ Central Concerns and Coping Strategies during Internship." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33237273463236182050.

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碩士
國立成功大學
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Using Critical Theory as a theoretical framework, this multiple case study aims at exploring secondary preservice teachers’ central concerns, coping strategies, their related context and how these three constructs interrelate with each other. Four preservice teachers who graduated from teacher education programs in universities in Taiwan were recruited for this study. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews, documents, and preservice teachers’ reflection notes. Data was analyzed by qualitative cross-case analysis. Data was analyzed within each individual case, and then a thematic analysis across the cases was done. Findings suggest that: (1) Preservice teachers experienced numerous frustrations and difficulties during their internship, such as role ambiguity, lack of autonomy, and heavy workload. (2) The randomly assigned mentorship leads to conflicts and tensions between mentors and mentees. (3) The oppressed preservice teachers tend to adopt passive coping strategies to comply with the policy. (4) Teacher education programs in universities and in teachers’ colleges have different guidance and objectives. For example, curriculum in teachers’ colleges focus more on assisting students in passing the screening exams and getting licensure, while preservice teachers graduated from teacher education programs in universities need to work on it by themselves. (5) While the notion of free market was promoted, the concept of being a teacher has been changed as well. Nowadays, prospective teachers view teacher education training as investment that offer them alternative job opportunities. Hence, once preservice teachers experienced frustrations and oppressions, their determination on becoming a teacher are very likely to be wavered. This research aims to provide related recommendations for teacher education programs and policymakers to ameliorate the issues addressed in the findings.

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Henderson, John Tolliver. "Pre-service secondary mathematics teachers₂ preferences of statistical representations of univariate data." 2008. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06192008-130035/unrestricted/etd.pdf.

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Han, Sun-Nam, and 韓舜南. "A study on pre-service education system for Korean secondary school teachers." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07129747897137344490.

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國立政治大學
教育研究所
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The purpose of this research was to study pre-service education system of Korean and secondary school Teachers. The conclusions and implications of the present study are summarized below: The training curricula for Korean teachers can be divided into two parts; One is the curricula for normal universities and the other is for non—normal universities. The courses for normal universities are separately designed for national normal universities and private normal universities. And those for non-normal universities are for general universities and the department of education and graduate institute of education. The diversity and open teacher educational system can suffice the need for teachers. However, as far as curriculum designing and curriculum management , it can only help students obtain teacher’s certificates. This even happens to students in normal universities. The problem arise because the system is lacking in guiding students how to study education and optimize teaching methods. The system should enhance the quality of teacher training. The number of credit points one obtains serves as criterion for professional curriculum. Moreover, teachers in secondary education can gain two kinds of certificates. Teachers who have a master degree can receive “The firth grad teacher’s license ” and those who have a bachelor degree can obtain “The second grad teacher’s license ”. Suggestion of some ideas to improve the teacher education areas follows: 1. To establish complete certain of the teachers rating system. 2. To establish teacher education system, the secondary schools and community which are closely related to one another. 3. More time is needed for practicing teachers in Korea. According to the conclusion of this study, I hope it will be some help to the construct of secondary school teachers education system. Moreover, the study gives some suggestions to the educational administration, unive rsities , secondary schools, and the further study.

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Rodriguez, Shelly R. "What they see : noticings of secondary science cooperating teachers as they observe pre-service teachers." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21280.

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This dissertation explores what cooperating secondary science teachers attend to during observations of pre-service teachers as they enact lessons in their classrooms and how they make sense of what they see. This study applies the teacher noticing framework, recently used in research with mathematics, to the secondary science context and uses it to describe teacher attention. The study also aims to determine if cooperating teachers use the act of noticing to engage in pedagogical reasoning and draw connections to their own teaching practice. As an interpretive qualitative study, the format for data collection and analysis utilized a case-study methodology with cross-case analysis, and used semi-structured interviews, lesson debriefs, collected artifacts, and classroom observations. Data on the four study participants was collected over the 2011-2012 school year. Findings support several conclusions. First, the cooperating science teachers in this study regularly engaged in reflection and pedagogical reasoning through the act of noticing. Second, the cooperating teachers made regular connections to their own practice in the form of vicarious suggestions, reflective questions, comparisons of practice, and perspective shifts. These connections fostered the emergence of "pivotal moments" or times when the cooperating science teacher self-identified a desire to change their current practice. Third, cooperating teachers used observations of pre-service teachers in their classrooms as a form of professional experimentation and built knowledge in practice through the experience. Lastly, the findings suggest that observations of pre-service teachers be added to the list of professional development activities, like video analysis and lesson study, that help teachers reflect on their own practice. For science teacher educators, this study demonstrates the importance of attending to field experiences as a learning opportunity for the science cooperating teacher. It provides a new way of looking at classroom observations as professional development opportunities and it recommends that teacher preparation programs reconceptualize the tasks they ask cooperating teachers to engage in. Suggestions include designing observation tools that direct teacher noticing toward student learning in science, viewing cooperating science teachers as learners, including metacognitive activities for cooperating science teachers, and reorienting lesson debriefs toward a notion of classroom inquiry.
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Lee, Rosalind Chui Mei. "Conceptions of teaching mathematics: the ideas of six pre-service secondary mathematics teachers." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4556.

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"I am a math teacher." This simple statement evokes a plethora of images. Elucidating pre-service teachers' personal meanings for this statement adds to the knowledge base for teacher education. Knowing their own beliefs and ideas about teaching also provides teacher candidates a basis from which to consider alternative conceptions. In this investigation, six pre-service teachers of secondary- mathematics were interviewed about their ideas of teaching mathematics at the conclusion of their extended practicum. Al l had bachelor's degrees with a mathematics specialty; three had pursued graduate study in pure or applied mathematics. Results show all six teacher candidates had different conceptions of teaching mathematics. Some emphasized the content of mathematics; others emphasized mathematical processes. Some gave priority in their teaching perspective to student development and cognitive skills. Those who had studied graduate level mathematics expressed a desire to make math interesting and stimulating for students. Results support the constructivist ideas that conceptions are personally formed and past experiences are influential in shaping them.

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Huang, Xue-Huei, and 黃雪惠. "A Study on the Environmental World View of Pre-service Secondary Science Teachers." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31031539628471753621.

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國立彰化師範大學
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The Aim of this study was to investigate the Environmental World View of the pre-service science teachers. The three questions to be studied were: (1). What degree of New Environmental Paradigm(NEP) did the pre-service science teachers accept ? (2). How diversity of their acceptance varied between their genders, schools and departments? (3). What were the basic appearances of the Environmental World Views of the teachers who accepted the NEP to different degrees? Data for this study were collected through New Environmental Paradigm Scale(NEP Scale) developed by Dunlap and Van Liere (1978) and interviews with some of the samples. Three hundred and forty-sevenpre-service science teachers participated in this study. These pre-service science teachers were majors of physics, chemistry, biology and globe science in National Normal University (School A), National Chung-Hua University of Education (School B), and National Kao-Hsiung Normal University (School C). Three-way ANOVA was adopted to analyze the questionnaire data, yet inductive analysis was applied to analyze the interview data. The results indicated that the pre-service science teachers accepted the NEP to a high degree; it fell between "agree" and "very agree". It seemed that the New Environmental Paradigm had been formed in the group of pre-service teachers. However, some differences in the degree of acceptance among these teachers were found. In School A, in terms of genders, the male pre-service biology teachers had a higher degree of acceptance than the female ones, but in the other departments, there was no significant differences between the genders. In terms of departments, the female pre-service globe science teachers had a highest degree among female pre-service biology, physics and globe science teachers. The female pre-service chemistry teachers had a higher degree of acceptance than the female pre-service physics teachers. However, as far as the male pre- service science teachers were concerned, the degree of acceptancedid not vary with different departments. In School B, in terms of genders, the female pre-service physics teachers had a higher degree of acceptance as compared with that of the male ones, the similar situation was found in the pre-service biology teachers. In the other departments, there was no significant differences between the genders. In terms of departments, the male pre-service physics teachers had a higher degree of acceptance of New Environmental Paradigm than that of the male pre-service chemistry teachers. However, as far as the female pre-service science teachers were concerned, the degree of acceptance did not vary with different departments. In School C, the degree of NEP accepted by the preservice science teachers accepted the NEP did not vary with different genders and departments. According to the interview data, the pre-service teacher whose NEP Scale scores clung to the New Environmental Paradigm thought the balance of the natural environment was so a sensitive system that it was easily in damaged. He emphasized that it was wrong to think that human beings dominated in nature. On the other hand, he realized cleasly that the life of human beings was reliant on the natural environment. On the basis of the pre-service science teachers'' scores on the NEP Scale, some teachers were grouped as environmental sympathizers. For the Environmental World Views, these teacherslack some belief system with consistency in logic. They recognized that it was important to treasure and protect the natural environment, but ironically they would not forsake the economical growth. Moreover, they were overconfident that science and technology could solve the environmental problems and promote the economical growth as well. The pre- service science teacher whose NEP Scale scores clung to the Dominant Social Paradigm thought the natural environment must has self-healing capability to patch up what the human beings had destroyed. So, he thought the balance of nature would not be easily destroyed. In addition, he was not sensitive to the environmental problems at present. He was less concerned about the relationship between the human beings and nature. He was also quite satisfied with what the human beings had down to protect the environment and the task of environmental protection and highly appreciated the economical growth.

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