Impact of a university course on pre-service teachers’ conceptions about environmental issues and environmental education

The paper presents the results of the evaluation of a university environmental course on pre-service teachers’ conceptions of environmental issues and environmental education. The evaluation method leaned on the theory of social representations and used stimulus terms to trigger respondents’ ideas....

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Main Authors:	KORFIATIS, KONSTANTINOS J., HOVARDAS, TASOS
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Urray 2012
Subjects:	Pedagogical Content Knowledge, PCK, Knowledge acquisition, Inquiry-Based Science Education, science Energy, conservation, transformation, equivalence, history of science Transfer of energy, mechanical work, heat, semiotic actions, inscriptions Teleology, biology, chemistry, physics Analyse of the activity, strategy, behaviour, spreadsheet, learning education Nature of science, history of science, science teaching Total force on an immersed body, physics textbooks Teacher training, mathematics teaching, scheme, instrument Geology, Biology, time, explanatory register, obstacles Energy, transformation, vertical path, primary, middle school Issue, problem solving, preschool children, argumentation, STEM, engineering Community, resources, teachers science education Inquiry-based science education, primary science education, teacher support, class observation, France Waves, problem solving, interferences, sine function, graphical representation Geophysical entities, preschool children’s representations, earth’s surface, implications for teaching Serious game, robot pedagogy, cognitive mediation, activity analysis, last section of kindergarten Earth science curriculum, student learning, quality assessment, validity and reliability study, survey development Biology, competencies, national / global context, PISA, school-based exams Shape of the earth, location of people on earth, the day/night cycle, mental models, children IBSE, primary school, Intentio, institutional science education project Didactics, Physics Sciences, modelling activities, electrostatics field Physics learning, preschool, formation of the shadows, early science education, drawings Early childhood, cultural-historical, sociocultural, early years, science education, technology education, engineering education. Mixed method, sequential analysis, inquiry Ancient remains, amphorae, mediation Theory based structure of knowledge; nucleus-body-periphery structure of theory; cultural content knowledge (CCK); cultural knowledge of the weight concept Technological education, teaching practices, computers practices, process of transmission - appropriation, information and communication technology Learning Analytics, epistemology, methodology, ethics Area Measurement, teaching area measurement, measurement tools, elementary school Scientific partnerships, citizen science, teaching practices, science teaching Action, reason, geometric middle, developmental perspective, International Center for Genetic Epistemology Serious game, learning, knowledge, skills, elementary school. Physics education, world image, theories and preoccupations, change of ideas Children, ICT, technology, home, early childhood education Oral health, dental caries, children’s ideas, oral health practices, pre-school education Science education, participatory science, authenticity of learning, teaching practices, school-scientist partnerships Participation, early mathematics, mathematising process, children’s initiatives, play pedagogies Science education, scientific revolution, history and philosophy of science and Material and virtual resources, praxeology, task, technique, technology, register, number sense, place-value system, Chinese abacus Science and mathematics education Chemical reaction, MBL, Lebanon, labwork Primary education, investigative approach, scientific and technological activities Spatial skills, programming cards, Scratch Jr, tangible material, code learning Science exhibitions, technoscientific issues, practice and process, communicating controversy in science, critical viewer, negotiation Technology education, curriculum, gender Contradictions, conflicts, turning points, early childhood, science education, motives, demands, everyday concepts, scientific concepts PhD studies, PhD student, supervisor, research problem Avalanche, joint action theory for didactics (JATD), physics, resources, science communication Science disaffection, aims of science education, didactics, educational policy and administration Explanations construction, teaching, sciences, preschool Content analysis, qualitative research, primary school, scientific research activity History and Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophy of Mathematics, HP&ST Summer programs, females, Mathematics, middle school, motivation, self-efficacy Scolarisation des élèves handicapés; habiletés éducatives; gestes professionnels d’ajustement; auxiliaire de vie scolaire; école primaire française Indigenous education, biology education, models, living beings classification Concept force, didactic transposition, mathematical approach, students’ difficulties misconceptions Digital technology, documentation work, programming, students’ autonomy, teacher education Environmental education, environmental issues, social representations, word associations, environmental conceptions Science, investigation, école primaire, élèves en situation de handicap Nature of Science, history of science, balance of nature Teaching physics, energy concept, systems of signs, inscriptions, semiotic resources Science education, precursor models construction, flotation, teaching and learning strategy, preschool education. Health literacy, kindergarten teacher, qualitative research, content analysis Inquiry based teaching, formulation of hypotheses, buoyancy, manipulation, students' ideas Learning material; knowledge structures; WPW learning model; content specialization; engagement; heteroglossia Early childhood science, drawing, young children’s ideas, change of state France, history of science, teaching, experimental sciences, Volta. Problems solving, knowledge, task, declarative, procedural, hierarchy Inquiry-Based Science Education, biology in early childhood education, teaching practices in kindergarten, learning practices in kindergarten Health education, educational styles, biomedical model, health promotion, textbooks Science Education, Mathematics Education, international testing, school curricula Educative robotics, primary school, learning, micro-genetics approach, activity analysis Pointe-à-Callière, archaeology, history, educative and cultural mediation, discovery experience
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Impact of a university course on pre-service teachers’ conceptions about environmental issues and environmental education

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