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Teacher in the eyes of future primary school teachers

Publication at Faculty of Education |
2017

Abstract

The article presents current research on professional vision of future primary school teachers before their study of general and subject didactics. The students were supposed to watch a video of a real lesson and write unstructured reflections of it.

The research aimed to investigate what the students notice in the observed lesson and how they reason about it. Specifically, what topics they notice in relation to the actor - teacher, to what degree they describe, evaluate and interpret the seen, and which topics they interpret and in what quality.

Units of our analysis were coded by categorical system according to Sherin and van Es (2009), we emphasised more on the category interpret which was analysed also qualitatively. The outcomes showed that students mainly noticed general didactic phenomena, which were described and evaluated equally, but were interpreted less.

Moreover, the major of students showed inability to link viewed lesson with the theory