Pre-service Teachers’ Views of Inquiry Teaching and Their Responses to Teacher Educators’ Feedback on Teaching Practice
Hye-Gyoung Yoon 1 * , Mijung Kim 2, Byoung Sug Kim 3, Yong Jae Joung 4, Young Shin Park 5
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1 Chuncheon National University of Education, SOUTH KOREA2 University of Victoria, CANADA3 Roosevelt University, USA4 Gongju National University of Education, SOUTH KOREA5 Chosun University, SOUTH KOREA* Corresponding Author

Abstract

This study attempted to explore 15 Korean elementary pre-service teachers’ views of inquiry teaching. During a science teaching methods course, pre-service teachers implemented a peer teaching lesson, had a group discussion to reflect on five teacher educators’ comments on their first peer teaching practice, and revised and re-taught the lesson as a second peer teaching practice. The results indicate that pre-service teachers changed their views of inquiry teaching from following the process of inquiry or a completely unstructured discovery approach to facilitating students’ inquiry learning with instructional guidance. The importance of reflective group discussion and re-teaching a lesson is discussed.

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Article Type: Research Article

EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2013, Volume 9, Issue 4, 347-359

https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.944a

Publication date: 14 Dec 2013

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