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Orbis scholae is an academic journal published by Charles University, Prague. It features articles on school education in the wider socio-cultural context. It aims to contribute to our understanding and the development of school education, and to the reflection of teaching practice and educational policy.
ORBIS SCHOLAE, Vol 3 No 2 (2009), 47–62
On the dynamic nature of physics teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge
Tomáš Janík, Petr Najvar, Jan Slavík, Josef Trna
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23363177.2018.211
published online: 23. 02. 2018
abstract
This study focuses on the role of teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in transforming subject matter in physics instruction (at lower-secondary school). The purpose of the present study is to investigate the nature of teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge. Video recordings were analysed of 27 lessons taught by 8 lower-secondary school teachers on the topic “composition of forces”. A typology of content representations was developed inductively. The findings show that teachers use various types of content representations. These illustrate the dynamic nature of teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge, which is documented using the example of a teacher who combines various types of representation exibly when introducing the concept “composition of forces”.
keywords: content representation; pedagogical content knowledge; physics teaching; video study
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ISSN: 1802-4637
E-ISSN: 2336-3177
