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Natural Science teacher attitudes and Pedagogical Content Knowledge for teaching Botany
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/45870 Natural Science teacher attitudes and Pedagogical Content Knowledge for teaching Botany Abrie, A.L. (Mia) Fraser, William John Lombaard, Deidré UCTD Pedagogical Content Knowledge Teachers Teaching strategies Botany South Africa Attitudes Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2014. This South African study investigated a sample of Grade 4 to 7 Natural Sciences teachers’ attitudes towards botany and botany teaching and these teachers’ botany Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK). It explored whether a relationship exists between teachers’ attitudes towards botany teaching and their PCK. The study provides an overview of international and South African literature and research on the underrepresentation of botany and the teaching of botany in Natural Sciences classes. Throughout the study insight is provided on the universal problems of plant blindness and negative attitudes towards botany and botany teaching in the Natural Sciences classroom. Data were collected during teachers’ interviews, class observations and analyses of lesson plan documents. The results indicated that most teachers harbour negative attitudes towards botany and botany teaching. There are various reasons for this negativity such as past experiences in botany training, zoochauvinism and plant blindness. The Pedagogical Content Knowledge of teachers in this study was insufficient. It was found that teachers’ attitudes towards botany teaching influence their PCK and teachers’ PCK can, in turn, influence teacher attitudes towards botany, which can affect the teachers’ ways of teaching. This study confirms that problems of plant blindness, zoochauvinism and negativity towards botany and botany teaching that occur elsewhere in the world are also prevalent among South African teachers. This confirmation casts doubts on Natural Sciences teachers’ botany PCK. This study adds to the literature on botany teaching and PCK in the South African context tm2015 Science, Mathematics and Technology Education MEd Unrestricted 2015-07-02T11:05:46Z 2015-07-02T11:05:46Z 2015/04/15 2014 Dissertation Lombaard, D 2014, Natural Science teacher attitudes and Pedagogical Content Knowledge for teaching Botany, MEd Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45870> A2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45870 en © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Pedagogical Content Knowledge Teachers Teaching strategies Botany South Africa Attitudes Natural Science teacher attitudes and Pedagogical Content Knowledge for teaching Botany |
| title | Natural Science teacher attitudes and Pedagogical Content Knowledge for teaching Botany |
| title_full | Natural Science teacher attitudes and Pedagogical Content Knowledge for teaching Botany |
| title_fullStr | Natural Science teacher attitudes and Pedagogical Content Knowledge for teaching Botany |
| title_full_unstemmed | Natural Science teacher attitudes and Pedagogical Content Knowledge for teaching Botany |
| title_short | Natural Science teacher attitudes and Pedagogical Content Knowledge for teaching Botany |
| title_sort | natural science teacher attitudes and pedagogical content knowledge for teaching botany |
| topic | UCTD Pedagogical Content Knowledge Teachers Teaching strategies Botany South Africa Attitudes |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45870 |