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The Implementation of Early Science Education in Preschool Teachers' Initial Teacher Education. A Survey of Teacher Educators about Their Aims, Practices and Challenges in Teaching Science
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Barenthien, Julia Mareike; Dunekacke, Simone – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2022
Initial teacher education is the main opportunity to prepare pre-service preschool teachers to foster young children's science competences. Although initial teacher education is important for preschool teachers' later instruction in practice, little is known about early science education in initial teacher education. To gather first insights into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teachers
Process Mediates Structure: The Relation between Preschool Teacher Education and Preschool Teachers' Knowledge
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Blömeke, Sigrid; Jenßen, Lars; Grassmann, Marianne; Dunekacke, Simone; Wedekind, Hartmut – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Data about processes and outcomes of preschool teacher education is scarce. This paper examines the opportunities to learn (OTL) of prospective preschool teachers (N = 1,851) at different types and stages of preschool teacher education and their relation to general pedagogical knowledge (GPK), mathematics pedagogical content knowledge (MPCK), and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education