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Implementing Geographical Key Concepts: Design of a Symbiotic Teacher Training Course Based on Empirical and Theoretical Evidence

Cilt: 5 Sayı: 1 30 Nisan 2015
  • Janis Fögele *
  • Rainer Mehren
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Implementing Geographical Key Concepts: Design of a Symbiotic Teacher Training Course Based on Empirical and Theoretical Evidence

Abstract

 A central desideratum for the professionalization of qualified teachers is an improved practice of further teacher education. The present work constitutes a course of in-service training, which is built upon both a review of empirical findings concerning the efficacy of in-service training courses for teachers and theoretical assumptions about the professional competences of teachers, conducted in two Federal States of Germany from October 2014 to October 2015. The course focuses on geographical key concepts-central geographical (big) ideas that are systematically recurring, aiming at the promotion of conceptional learning within geography classes. By this means, they meet a major challenge of the field, facing a great variety of complex topics and the difficulty to support a cumulative construction of geographical knowledge. But there is little experience about the advantages and difficulties that occur by using the key concept approach in geography classes. Thus it is one aim of the in-service training to gain insights into the needs and potentials of geographical key concepts. That is why the teacher training course is labelled as symbiotic, as teachers learn about a new approach and supply practical experiences about it. The term symbiotic indicates a two-way learning process, as researchers thus can learn about the key concepts from a practical point of view. Hitherto, the weak efficacy of further teacher trainings is often criticised, taking into account inflexible teacher beliefs and a wide gap between theory and practice. Based on these considerations (professional competences of teachers, geographical key concepts, criteria for effective in-service training) this paper represents a first step of a study. On the one hand, a symbiotic in-service training course on geographical key concepts is introduced that might be capable to modify teacher beliefs, for example with respect to individual ideas of the subject-matter or the subjective theories about teaching and learning in geography classes. On the other hand, the expected practical experiences can help to identify obstacles for the use of key concepts in geography classes. At the end of this article an outlook on the study’s broader research interest and on the documentary method as a tool to meet these aims is given. Excerpts of first data available can illustrate the further research process

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Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Janis Fögele * Bu kişi benim
Germany

Rainer Mehren Bu kişi benim
Germany

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Nisan 2015

Gönderilme Tarihi

11 Kasım 2014

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Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2015 Cilt: 5 Sayı: 1

Kaynak Göster

APA
Fögele, J., & Mehren, R. (2015). Implementing Geographical Key Concepts: Design of a Symbiotic Teacher Training Course Based on Empirical and Theoretical Evidence. Review of International Geographical Education Online, 5(1), 56-76. https://izlik.org/JA69TM42GP
AMA
1.Fögele J, Mehren R. Implementing Geographical Key Concepts: Design of a Symbiotic Teacher Training Course Based on Empirical and Theoretical Evidence. Review of International Geographical Education Online. 2015;5(1):56-76. https://izlik.org/JA69TM42GP
Chicago
Fögele, Janis, ve Rainer Mehren. 2015. “Implementing Geographical Key Concepts: Design of a Symbiotic Teacher Training Course Based on Empirical and Theoretical Evidence”. Review of International Geographical Education Online 5 (1): 56-76. https://izlik.org/JA69TM42GP.
EndNote
Fögele J, Mehren R (01 Nisan 2015) Implementing Geographical Key Concepts: Design of a Symbiotic Teacher Training Course Based on Empirical and Theoretical Evidence. Review of International Geographical Education Online 5 1 56–76.
IEEE
[1]J. Fögele ve R. Mehren, “Implementing Geographical Key Concepts: Design of a Symbiotic Teacher Training Course Based on Empirical and Theoretical Evidence”, Review of International Geographical Education Online, c. 5, sy 1, ss. 56–76, Nis. 2015, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA69TM42GP
ISNAD
Fögele, Janis - Mehren, Rainer. “Implementing Geographical Key Concepts: Design of a Symbiotic Teacher Training Course Based on Empirical and Theoretical Evidence”. Review of International Geographical Education Online 5/1 (01 Nisan 2015): 56-76. https://izlik.org/JA69TM42GP.
JAMA
1.Fögele J, Mehren R. Implementing Geographical Key Concepts: Design of a Symbiotic Teacher Training Course Based on Empirical and Theoretical Evidence. Review of International Geographical Education Online. 2015;5:56–76.
MLA
Fögele, Janis, ve Rainer Mehren. “Implementing Geographical Key Concepts: Design of a Symbiotic Teacher Training Course Based on Empirical and Theoretical Evidence”. Review of International Geographical Education Online, c. 5, sy 1, Nisan 2015, ss. 56-76, https://izlik.org/JA69TM42GP.
Vancouver
1.Janis Fögele, Rainer Mehren. Implementing Geographical Key Concepts: Design of a Symbiotic Teacher Training Course Based on Empirical and Theoretical Evidence. Review of International Geographical Education Online [Internet]. 01 Nisan 2015;5(1):56-7. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA69TM42GP