Danish student teachers’ development of noticing and reasoning in a longitudinal perspective

Beskrivelse

The use of classroom videos as mediator for authentic observing and reasoning has shown a range of advantages. However, there is still a limited number of studies based on subject-comparative approaches and longitudinal investigations.
The purpose of this study is to adopt the framework of learning to notice and the use of classroom videos and integrate them into three subject-didactical courses (Danish L1, English L2 and mathematics) of Danish teacher education. Five course designs for learning to notice focusing on the three phases of observing, reasoning, and predicting with progression over four semesters have been developed and carried out parallel in the three subjects.
Our research question is what characterises student teachers’ development of noticing and reasoning competences in three subjects over the period of their first two years of teacher education. Especially, we are interested in the progression or degression of the student teachers’ accurateness of noticing, the use of different kinds of didactical knowledge and kinds of arguments, and the ways of connecting the observed with didactical forms of knowledge.
The primary data consist of written works from the student teachers (3x5x20), transcripts from group discussions (3x5x6), recordings of plenary discussions with teacher educators (3x5), and as secondary data planning documents of the courses (3x5) and the used video clips. Our analysis builds on a multiple coding procedure in Nvivo in order to identify patterns for student teachers’ development of competences between subjects over time in relation to the five course designs (Auerbach & Silverstein, 2003). The coding structure is inspired by van Es (2011) and validated through a partially double blind procedure. We expect patterns that differ over time (progression/degression) dependent on students’ belief and knowledge, and on subjects.

Periode	10 maj 2023
Begivenhedstitel	NoFa 9 Nordisk fagdidaktik konference Vaasa: Education, knowledge and Bildung in a global world
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Grad af anerkendelse	International