Examining Pedagogical Content Knowledge The Construct and its Implic

Since its emergence over two decades ago, the construct of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) has significantly impacted preservice and inservice teacher education, educational policy, and educational research. PCK has served to re-focus educators' atten

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Science & Technology Education Library VOLUME 6

SERIES EDITOR KenTobin , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

EDITORIAL BOARD Dale Baker, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Beverley Bel I, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Reinders Duit, University of Kiel, Germany Mariona Espinet, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Barry Fraser, Curtin University of Technology Perth, Australia Olugbemiro Jegede, The Open University, Hong Kong Reu ven Lazarowitz, Technion, Haifa, Israel Wolff-MichaeI Roth, University of Victoria, Canada Tuan Hsiao-lin, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan Lilia Re yes Herrera, University Autónoma de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia

SCOPE The book series Science & Technology Education Library provides a publication forum for scholarship in science and technology education. It aims to publish innovative books which are at the forefront of the field. Monographs as well as collections of papers will be published.

Examining Pedagogical Content Knowledge The Construct and its Implications for Science Education

Edited by

JULIE GESS-NEWSOME University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, U. S.A and

NORMAN G. LEDERMAN Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.

Published in cooperation with the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Foreword Lee S. Shulman

vii ix

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION 1. Pedagogical Content Knowledge: An Introduction and Orientation Julie Gess-Newsome

3

SECTION II: THE LITERATURE 2. The Complex Nature and Sources of Teachers’ Pedagogical Knowledge Greta Morine-Dershimer & Todd Kent

21

3. Secondary Teachers’ Knowledge and Beliefs about Subject Matter and their Impact on Instruction Julie Gess-Newsome

51

4. Nature, Sources and Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Science Teaching Shirley Magnusson, Joseph Krajcik & Hilda Borko

95

5. Domains of Teacher Knowledge William S. Carlsen

133

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SECTION III: EMERGING LINES OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHER EDUCATION 6.

Assessment and Measurement of Pedagogical Content Knowledge Juliet A. Baxter & Norman G. Lederman

147

7.

Changing our Teaching: The Role of Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Elementary Science Deborah C. Smith

163

8. Reconceptualizing Secondary Science Teacher Education Norman G. Lederman & Julie Gess-Newsome

199

9.

215

Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Co-Participation in Science Classrooms Kenneth