Title

The Social Studies Methods Course: What Do Teacher Candidates Know And Want To Know About Teaching Social Studies?

Keywords

Methods course; Social studies; Teacher education

Abstract

During the past decade, there has been more than an adequate amount of research addressing issues regarding social studies methods courses. However, the apparent void is that there is no clear understanding of what pedagogical content knowledge or understanding of pedagogical approaches teacher candidates bring with them to social studies methods courses or what they expect from their time in social studies methods courses. The purpose of this study is to determine the mentality of the typical social studies methods course student, as he or she enters a social studies methods course. Employing analytic induction (Bogdan & Biklen, 2007; Erikson, 1986; Patton, 2002) and content analysis (Patton, 2002) to analyze and interpret the data, 9 categories for what the students know and 8 for what the students wanted to know were constructed. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.

Publication Date

10-1-2010

Publication Title

Educational Research and Evaluation

Volume

16

Issue

5

Number of Pages

437-449

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/13803611.2010.537473

Socpus ID

78650038780 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/78650038780

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