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Developing Science Teacher Educators’ Pedagogy of Teacher Education

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Second International Handbook of Science Education

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Pedagogy of teacher education focuses serious attention on the relationship between teaching and learning in the programmes and practices of learning and teaching about teaching. This chapter examines ways in which knowledge of teaching science teaching might be articulated and portrayed to enhance understanding of this complex interplay. By explicating what is known from the research about science teacher educators’ knowledge of teaching, two concurrent perspectives are uncovered: knowledge of teaching about teaching; and, knowledge of learning about teaching. This chapter explores these perspectives to inform the knowledge of science teacher education.

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  1. Faculty of Education, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia

    Amanda Berry & John Loughran

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  1. Science & Mathematics Education Centre, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, West Australia, Australia

    Barry J. Fraser

  2. The Graduate Centre, City University of New York, New York, 10016-4309, New York, USA

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  3. Ctr. Mathematics & Science Education, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Rd., Kelvin Grove, 4059, Queensland, Australia

    Campbell J. McRobbie

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Berry, A., Loughran, J. (2012). Developing Science Teacher Educators’ Pedagogy of Teacher Education. In: Fraser, B., Tobin, K., McRobbie, C. (eds) Second International Handbook of Science Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9041-7_28

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