In teacher education, general pedagogical and psychological knowledge (PPK) is often taught separately from the teaching subject itself, potentially leading to inert knowledge. In an experimental study with 69 mathematics student teachers, we tested the benefits of fostering the integration of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and general PPK with respect to knowledge application. Integration...

ITS authoring frameworks are useful to reduce the efforts needed to create tutors, but the resulting tutors are usually more limited than domainspecific ones. The sophistication of the pedagogical behaviors they can produce depends on the knowledge components available to model a task domain. In this paper, we present research focused on integrating sophisticated domainindependent pedagogical b...

there have been many theories and paradigms trying to provideanswers to the challenge of the best method. after the rise of manycolorful language teaching methods, in postmethod era, it waspostulated that there is no magic formula to teach a foreign languagebut that a localized methodology based on learners and teachers’ experiencewill have suitable results. in this article, after investigating...

This paper describes how a frame has been used to articulate the intentions of a preservice chemistry education course to students of that course. The frame, which draws on appropriate knowledge bases for teachers of science, is also used through the teaching of the course as a diagnostic and development tool to assist the learning of these preservice teachers. However, the success of using suc...

Article History: Received 29.04.2017 Received in revised form 06.06.2017 Accepted 15.07.2017 Available online 27.07.2017 This study was conducted to enhance a small group of preservice science teachers’ (PSTs’) pedagogical content knowledge by adapting microteaching lesson study into Science Teaching Laboratory Applications course. The study was an action research including the researcher and 1...

The use of simulation for a pedagogical purpose is very interesting. One of the essential repercussions of the construction of a pedagogical simulator is the perennisation of the ‘know’ and especially ‘know-how’ held by the human experts. This deals with an expert system, ` kernel of the simulator ́, able to diagnose and detect faults, as well as to describe scenarios of maintenance. Our major c...

When interacting with students, teachers usually combine several communication modalities (speech, hand gestures, gaze, posture, facial expression, graphics on a blackboard, slides...) and have to adapt their communication to the lecture settings (computer knowledge of the students, duration of the lecture...). Although educational resources and intelligent tutoring systems are developing, they...

Many current ICT-supported reform efforts demand teachers to assume the role of epistemic facilitator of knowledge construction supported by technology. It is thus important for teacher educators to understand teachers’ epistemic beliefs. This qualitative study investigated seven Singaporean in-service teachers’ epistemic beliefs and their pedagogical beliefs. Two interviews were conducted for ...