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Download full textTholani Tshuma; Eunice Nyamupangedengu – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2025
This inquiry sought to investigate the opportunities and potential challenges of engaging in a self-study approach as a strategy for enhancing professional growth during my teaching of the topic of evolutionary genetics to 24 twelfth-grade students. I had, for many years, experienced pedagogical deficits and shortcomings when teaching evolutionary…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Science Teachers
Peer reviewedZuzovsky, Ruth – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1994
Describes and discusses an epistemological approach to the education of science teachers that emphasizes similarities in knowledge and modes of acquiring knowledge among children, scientists in their historical contexts, and student teachers. (ZWH)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Controversial Issues (Course Content), Epistemology
Pankratius, William J. – 1993
Students enter teacher education programs with pre-existing beliefs about the teacher's role, what constitutes effective teaching, teacher planning, and knowledge structures. This case study examines the changes in one preservice science teacher's attitude and beliefs towards the teaching of creationism as a result of her personal inquiry. The…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Beliefs, Case Studies, Constructivism (Learning)
