Who owns pedagogy? (Re)locating pedagogy and pedagogical content knowledge
conference contribution
posted on 2007-01-01, 00:00authored byMary Dixon, Kim Senior
This paper draws upon a study in Victoria, Australia which investigated pedagogical understandings and practices specific to three domains: Science, Thinking and ICT. Teachers working in these three domains and key stakeholders from the profession participated in focus group and individual interviews. This study explored the pedagogical knowledge particular to each of these three domains, and common pedagogical knowledges across the domains. Participants in each domain claimed the distinctive nature of their domain and therefore the distinctive nature of their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). A final common thread was the identification of teacher strategies as a substantial part of pedagogy. The key issues arising from this study are the implications of ascribing pedagogy to particular disciplines and the future possibilities for a curriculum reform agenda within a regressive pedagogical climate.
History
Event
National Institute of Education. Conference (2007 : Singapore)
Publisher
National Institute of Education
Location
Singapore
Place of publication
Singapore
Start date
2007-05-28
End date
2007-05-30
ISBN-13
9789810581855
ISBN-10
9810581858
Language
eng
Publication classification
E1.1 Full written paper - refereed
Title of proceedings
NIE 2007 : Redesigning pedagogy : culture, knowledge and understanding : Proceedings of the 2007 National Institute of Education Conference