Challenging the politics of education: Intertwining dialogic pedagogy with a research-based practicum for first-year pre-service teachers

HOT Lab–Based Practicum Guide for Pre-Service Physics Teachers

The purpose of this study is to develop HOT (Higher Order Thinking) Lab–based practicum guide that improves pre-service physics teachers’ creative thinking skills. The research method used 3D-1I model (Define, Design, Develop and Implementation). The subjects of this study are 40 students of Physics Education Program UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung. The results showed that the HOT Lab-based prac...

Narrative journal experience of pre-service teachers in Practicum course

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine eight teacher students’ experiences in using the reflective narrative journal in the process of their Practicum.  Specifically, this study focused on capturing the essence of the experiences related to reactions, feelings and thoughts about the reflective narrative journal entries in Practicum process. Qualitative analysis revealed that ...

Pre-service Physics Teachers and Physics Education Research

Training pre-service teachers requires, among other things, content knowledge, pedagogical skills and pedagogical content knowledge. Teacher preparation programs have little, if any spare time to add more courses/activities to their program. However, I argue in this paper that we, as educators, must enhance the amount of physics education research in our pre-service physics teacher training pro...

Challenging basic assumptions: mathematical experiences for pre-service teachers

schemas, in which new knowledge will be assimilated. It is commonly declared that very often pre-service teachers do not have a good understanding of the mathematics they will be teaching. Re-teach them school mathematics? It could be perceived as boring and even insulting. Teach them more higher mathematics? It could be perceived as irrelevant totheir teaching career and the transition is not ...

Examining the Relationship of Variables Associated with Pre-Service Teachers Coping During their Practicum Experience