[en] BACKGROUND: The importance of diagnostic and scaffolding activities for early science learning has been shown consistently. However, preschool teachers scarcely engage in them. We developed an instrument to assess preschool teachers' willingness to engage in diagnostic and scaffolding activities in science learning situations and examined its relation with teachers' knowledge, beliefs and practice.
AIMS: We validate an instrument to assess willingness to engage in scaffolding and diagnostic activities and study the interplay between willingness, learning beliefs, content knowledge (CK) and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in the context of science learning, particularly block play.
SAMPLE(S): A total of N = 151 preschool teachers from 41 kindergartens in Germany participated in our study.
METHODS: Preschool teachers completed a questionnaire, which took approximately 1 hour of time. We drew a subsample of N = 73 teachers and observed their practice during a 30 min block play episode.
RESULTS: With our instrument, we were able to distinguish between preschool teachers' willingness to diagnose and to scaffold. Preschool teachers' co-constructivist beliefs and PCK predicted willingness to engage in diagnosing, PCK also predicted willingness to engage in scaffolding. Associations between learning beliefs and practice were inconsistent.
CONCLUSIONS: Our study highlights aspects of the association between preschool teachers' PCK and their willingness to engage in diagnosing and scaffolding. However, we found inconsistencies between preschool teachers' beliefs and practice, which call for further clarification.
Disciplines :
Education & instruction
Author, co-author :
Schmitt, Lukas ; Department of Children and Youth Education, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Landau, Germany
WEBER, Anke Maria ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) > Cognitive Science and Assessment
Venitz, Laura; Department of Children and Youth Education, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Landau, Germany
Leuchter, Miriam; Department of Children and Youth Education, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Landau, Germany
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Preschool teachers' pedagogical content knowledge predicts willingness to scaffold early science learning.
Publication date :
December 2023
Journal title :
British Journal of Educational Psychology
ISSN :
0007-0998
Publisher :
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, England
Volume :
93
Issue :
4
Pages :
1034 - 1052
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Focus Area :
Educational Sciences
Development Goals :
4. Quality education
Funders :
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Funding text :
This research was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG; grant no. 446745359).
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