This study is concerned with the development of subject knowledge in pre-service teachers of secondary physical education (PE) during their one year Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) course. It investigates the knowledge bases for teaching which pre-service teachers recognised, developed and prioritised, as well as the key influences that impacted on their subject knowledge development. Adopting an interpretive methodology informed by constructivist grounded theory, the study employed interviews, lesson observations and post-lesson reflections as principal research methods. Pre-service teachers were seen to make wide-ranging progress in their subject knowledge, including the development of content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, general pedagogical knowledge, knowledge of curriculum and knowledge of pupils. Through this they advanced their view of the nature of PE and how they wanted to teach it. The research highlights, that the process of knowledge development in PETE is socially constructed and complex. Much of the pre-service teachers development was influenced by various communities of practice, particularly their school placements PE departments, but also their University-based learning community. Of these, the legitimised practices within the PE departments were found to be especially important to pre-service teachers development. University-based learning was credited by pre-service teachers with enhancing their holistic understanding of the learning process, developing those aspects of critical pedagogy that were under-developed in schools. The impact of different subject knowledge profiles and the consequences of knowledge deficits are identified. This raises questions about the role and development of subject knowledge within PETE and calls for a re-vitalised debate on the nature of the knowledge in PE. Framed within an ever-changing policy landscape is the need for enhanced and stable partnerships that promote shared visions of PETE, an essential part of which is the need to collaboratively design and evaluate explicit knowledge development pathways which allow pre-service teachers to fulfil their potential and genuinely decide how they want to teach PE.

Submitted by Rosina Valeria Lanzellotti Mattiussi Teixeira (rosina.teixeira@unisantos.br) on 2017-08-22T12:48:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriana Mallmann Vilalva.pdf: 2852847 bytes, checksum: 537df41d11bd9bf9bf1008a983e137bc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-22T12:48:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriana Mallmann Vilalva.pdf: 2852847 bytes, checksum: 537df41d11bd9bf9bf1008a983e137bc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-22 / Considering that teachers¿ professional knowledge has strong influence in students¿ learning processes and also that Law School professors have not necessarily been trained in Pedagogical and teaching skills, thus resort to a more dogmatic and teacher-centered style, this study proposes a discussion about the aspects related to Pedagogical Content Knowledge which has been studied in several areas of teacher training, but not deeply enough by the Law professionals in Brazil. In order to better understand the topic, we studied Lee Shulman¿s constructs ¿ Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and the Pedagogical Reasoning and Action Framework (PRAF). Therefore, the question that triggered this investigation is: to carry out a theoretical research and study of the concept of PCK and what are its repercussions on the teaching practice of a Law school professor; to observe and understand how a teacher assimilated the concept of PCK and how she deals with the content of the subject she teaches and how her teaching practice was shaped. To that end, we used multiple tools for the collection of data: the creation of a field journal that reports the observation of classes of a Law School professor during one school term; interviews; the analysis of her teaching plan, and post-observation questions. Data has been analyzed having the practical proposals formulated by Minayo (2006) and the categories of PRAF, proposed by Shulman. PCK comprises of an important kind of knowledge when establishing bodies of professional knowledge and enables the structuring of teaching practices of Law School professors. Data analysis allowed us to understand that it is not enough knowledge of the specific content of the subject to be taught, you need a body of knowledge to that teaching can be transformed into learning. / Tomando por base que o conhecimento profissional dos professores possui repercussão no aprendizado de seus alunos e tendo em vista que os docentes que lecionam em grande parte dos cursos de Direito não possuem formação pedagógica, remontando ao ensino dogmático, bancário, discutem-se, os aspectos relacionados ao conhecimento pedagógico do conteúdo (PCK), o qual tem sido estudado em diversas áreas de formação de professores, mas ainda é pouco estudado pelos profissionais do Direito no Brasil. O PCK compreende um tipo de conhecimento importante na definição de um corpo de conhecimentos profissionais e auxilia na estruturação das práticas pedagógicas do docente do curso de Direito.Para tanto foram utilizados os construtos de Lee Shulman, o conhecimento pedagógico do conteúdo e o modelo de raciocínio pedagógico e ação. Assim, a presente investigação teve por objetivo realizar um estudo teórico sobre o conceito de PCK analisando suas implicações na prática docente de um professor do curso de Direito. Para tanto, foram utilizados instrumentos múltiplos de coletas de dados: elaboração de um diário de campo que retratou o acompanhamento de um semestre letivo de uma docente do curso de Direito; entrevistas; análise de seu plano de ensino, questões pós observação. Os dados foram transportados para o software de análise Atlas Ti e analisados com base na proposta operativa de Minayo (2006) utilizando as categorias do MRPA proposto por Shulman. O PCK compreende um tipo de conhecimento importante na definição de um corpo de conhecimentos profissionais e auxilia na estruturação das práticas pedagógicas do docente do curso de Direito. A análise de dados nos permitiu compreender que não basta o conhecimento do conteúdo específico da matéria a ser ministrada, é necessário um corpo de saberes para que o ensino possa ser transformado em aprendizado.

The purpose of this study was to examine pre-service mathematics teachers&amp / #8217 / subject matter knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and the relationships between the two on multiplication and division of fractions. For this purpose, pre-service teachers&amp / #8217 / understanding of key facts, concepts, principles, and proofs, their knowledge on common (mis)conceptions and difficulties held by the elementary students, their strategies of teaching these concepts, and representations they use to reason their understanding on multiplication and division of fractions were examined. Qualitative case study was performed where / data was collected from the pre-service teachers at the end of the spring semester of 2004-2005. Pre-service teachers were senior students enrolled in a teacher education program at a public university. Results revealed that pre-service teachers could easily symbolize and solve the basic questions on multiplication and division of fractions. However, in terms of pre-service teachers&amp / #8217 / interpretation and reasoning of key facts and principles on multiplication and division of fractions, their subject matter knowledge could not be regarded as conceptually deep. Furthermore, although pre-service teachers have strong belief that they should teach multiplication and division of fractions conceptually, where the logical background of the operations is explained, they do not have sufficient knowledge to represent and explain these topics and relationships conceptually.

In this paper the notion of “mathematics profiles” and “instructional behaviour profiles is introduced. A brief explanation of what these profiles are and how they were constructed and represented for preservice mathematics teachers is provided. An example of one of the participants’ profiles is included as an example. The influence of the pre-service teachers’ mathematics profiles on their instructional behaviour is then discussed. This is done with regard to using the mathematics profiles as a potential tool to optimise the development of pre-service mathematics teachers’ instructional behaviour towards a more reform-oriented approach.