Are pre-service Primary School teachers prepared to teach science by inquiry?

[EN] Inquiry-based science education (IBSE) focuses on the development of science process skills. This teaching methodology has been shown to be especially effective during Primary School as it allows children to explore and confront their own ideas about Nature. Also, a methodology based on process...

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Autores: Montero-Pau, Javier, Tierno, Sandra P., Tuzon, Paula
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
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Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/104789
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Higher Education
Learning
Educational systems
Teaching
Inquiry-based science
University education
Science process skills
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spelling Are pre-service Primary School teachers prepared to teach science by inquiry?Montero-Pau, JavierTierno, Sandra P.Tuzon, PaulaHigher EducationLearningEducational systemsTeachingInquiry-based scienceUniversity educationScience process skillsGENETICA[EN] Inquiry-based science education (IBSE) focuses on the development of science process skills. This teaching methodology has been shown to be especially effective during Primary School as it allows children to explore and confront their own ideas about Nature. Also, a methodology based on process skills is coherent with the main purpose of this educational stage where children need to learn to do things. In order to implement a methodology based on science process skills Primary teachers need to know to use science process skills, and how to teach them. In this paper we address if Spanish pre-service teachers are able to implement IBSE. We focus on pre-service Primary School teachers and compare our results with in-service teachers and a random sample of non-teachers. We explore their level of knowledge about science process skills and if pre-service teachers know how to develop an inquiry-based learning sequence. An overview of the situation of science education and teaching of scientific skills among the degrees on Primary Education in Spain is also presented. Our results show that pre-service teachers have a lack of knowledge on science process skills and fail when they attempting to build a learning sequence based on inquiry.Editorial Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaRepositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet20172017-06-26book parthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartapplication/pdfhttps://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/104789reponame:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valénciainstname:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada (by-nc-nd) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:riunet.upv.es:10251/1047892026-06-13T07:49:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Are pre-service Primary School teachers prepared to teach science by inquiry?
title Are pre-service Primary School teachers prepared to teach science by inquiry?
spellingShingle Are pre-service Primary School teachers prepared to teach science by inquiry?
Montero-Pau, Javier
Higher Education
Learning
Educational systems
Teaching
Inquiry-based science
University education
Science process skills
GENETICA
title_short Are pre-service Primary School teachers prepared to teach science by inquiry?
title_full Are pre-service Primary School teachers prepared to teach science by inquiry?
title_fullStr Are pre-service Primary School teachers prepared to teach science by inquiry?
title_full_unstemmed Are pre-service Primary School teachers prepared to teach science by inquiry?
title_sort Are pre-service Primary School teachers prepared to teach science by inquiry?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Montero-Pau, Javier
Tierno, Sandra P.
Tuzon, Paula
author Montero-Pau, Javier
author_facet Montero-Pau, Javier
Tierno, Sandra P.
Tuzon, Paula
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author2 Tierno, Sandra P.
Tuzon, Paula
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Higher Education
Learning
Educational systems
Teaching
Inquiry-based science
University education
Science process skills
GENETICA
topic Higher Education
Learning
Educational systems
Teaching
Inquiry-based science
University education
Science process skills
GENETICA
description [EN] Inquiry-based science education (IBSE) focuses on the development of science process skills. This teaching methodology has been shown to be especially effective during Primary School as it allows children to explore and confront their own ideas about Nature. Also, a methodology based on process skills is coherent with the main purpose of this educational stage where children need to learn to do things. In order to implement a methodology based on science process skills Primary teachers need to know to use science process skills, and how to teach them. In this paper we address if Spanish pre-service teachers are able to implement IBSE. We focus on pre-service Primary School teachers and compare our results with in-service teachers and a random sample of non-teachers. We explore their level of knowledge about science process skills and if pre-service teachers know how to develop an inquiry-based learning sequence. An overview of the situation of science education and teaching of scientific skills among the degrees on Primary Education in Spain is also presented. Our results show that pre-service teachers have a lack of knowledge on science process skills and fail when they attempting to build a learning sequence based on inquiry.
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