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<p>It is important to be able to make better informed decisions about issues such as sustainability and climate change that have both personal and global impact as early as possible in life. Primary teachers have a significant role in supporting students’ learning and understanding of these concepts. One important teaching skill that needs to be improved for understand sustainable development is the creation of meaningful generalizations, including models. Therefore, the learning experiences of pre-service primary teachers (N = 28) in regard to modelling was our focus. The results of our case study indicated concrete and visual modes as most common in student teachers’ experiences and understandings of modelling. The symbolic mode is less in evidence and an understanding of gestural and verbal models is rather unambiguous. Thus, we see a need and the potential to improve teaching and learning experiences in teacher education about the modelling of complex concepts.</p>
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It is important to be able to make better informed decisions about issues such as sustainability and climate change that have both personal and global impact as early as possible in life. Primary teachers have a significant role in supporting students’ learning and understanding of these concepts. One important teaching skill that needs to be improved for understand sustainable development is the creation of meaningful generalizations, including models. Therefore, the learning experiences of pre-service primary teachers (N = 28) in regard to modelling was our focus. The results of our case study indicated concrete and visual modes as most common in student teachers’ experiences and understandings of modelling. The symbolic mode is less in evidence and an understanding of gestural and verbal models is rather unambiguous. Thus, we see a need and the potential to improve teaching and learning experiences in teacher education about the modelling of complex concepts.

Reflection of Concept Modelling on Student Teachers’ Learning Experiences From a Primary Education Perspective

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability

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It is important to be able to make better informed decisions about issues such as sustainability and climate change that have both personal and global impact...

Reflection of Concept Modelling on Student Teachers’ Learning Experiences From a Primary Education Perspective

Published Online: Jul 09, 2022

Page range: 116 - 128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jtes-2022-0009

Keywords
concept learning, formula map, modelling, primary education, student teacher, sustainable development, teacher education

© 2022 Inge Timoštšuk et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Reflection of Concept Modelling on Student Teachers’ Learning Experiences From a Primary Education Perspective

Published Online: Jul 09, 2022

Page range: 116 - 128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jtes-2022-0009

Keywordsconcept learning, formula map, modelling, primary education, student teacher, sustainable development, teacher education

© 2022 Inge Timoštšuk et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
concept learning, formula map, modelling, primary education, student teacher, sustainable development, teacher education