Abstract
The concept of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) has had a major influence on research on science teacher knowledge and thinking in the past 25 years. However, PCK has shown to be a difficult concept to characterize and thus it has been the subject of diverse interpretations. In this paper I present a personal reflection about both the nature of PCK and its usefulness in the characterization of teacher thinking. In particular, I discuss the need for shifting our efforts from cataloguing teacher knowledge about teaching a particular subject to characterizing teachers' specific pedagogical content reasoning (SPCR) as they face specific pedagogical tasks in diverse contexts.
Translated title of the contribution | Specific pedagogical content reasoning |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 391-397 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Educacion Quimica |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- Pedagogical Content Knowledge
- Specific pedagogical content reasoning
- Teacher preparation
- Teacher thinking
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemistry
- Education