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Vu, Nhi. "Vietnamese teachers' conceptions of teaching and learning." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0003/MQ45490.pdf.
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陳淑英 and Suk-ying Eva Chan. "Teachers' conceptions of geography teaching and learning." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31962786.
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Chan, Suk-ying Eva. "Teachers' conceptions of geography teaching and learning." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25752194.
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Law, Kim-hung Thomas, and 羅劍雄. "Relationships between conception and practice: a study of teacher's conceptions of teaching andclassroom teaching practice related to cooperative learning." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B35717063.
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Chung, Chau-yin, and 鍾秋燕. "A study of teachers' conceptions of economics teaching." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B27677758.
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Corney, Graham John. "Geography student teachers' conceptions of teaching environmental topics." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020350/.
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Varnava-Marouchou, Despina. "Teaching and learning in an undergraduate business context : an inquiry into lecturers' conceptions of teaching and their students' conceptions of learning." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10490/.
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During one of the many discussions that I often have with my classes, it became apparent to me that some students had varied views regarding teaching and learning. In fact, what was basically a good teaching practice to me, apparently to many of my students it was not so. At the same time, in the last few years lecturers began expressing their disappointment concerning their students' outcomes and their evident lack of interest as regards their introductory courses. This creates some of the most immediate challenges for lecturers and teacher education designers to question the purpose of their teaching and the ways in which they teach. Indeed, what is the aim of university and college teaching and how should it be carried out? The study explored the conceptions of learning and teaching brought by a group of Cypriot students and their lecturers in their everyday introductory Business courses, carried out in one of the three largest private colleges of Nicosia, Cyprus. Data was gathered through interviews with five lecturers and 12 students in one of the three departments of the college, the School of Business, and analysed using the phenomenographic approach. On the basis of analyses of the data, six conceptions of teaching and six conceptions of learning were identified. It was possible to summarise the conceptions under distinct levels of categories. A three - set - order categorisation of teaching and a two - set - order categorisation of learning were developed. Comparisons were made between the two sets of categories. The findings showed that most participants developed comparatively traditional conceptions of both learning and teaching in a limited range of categories. Relationships between the categories indicated interesting similarities worth exploring further. The overall aim of the research is to offer a more defined understanding of the students' early conceptions of their learning and the lecturers' conceptions of teaching those students.
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Go, Luis Jr Tio, and 吳煌元. "Conceptions of parental learning." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/196006.
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The study investigates the learning of parents in parent education. It aims to find the parent learners’ conceptions of learning and to obtain an understanding of parents as learners. Phenomenography was employed as the research method. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with parents who participated in an in-school parent education course targeted at parents of students in the first year of secondary school.
The study found six conceptions of parental learning: Learning as A. recalling experiences, B. acquiring problem solving skills, C. applying the problem solving skills, D. awareness of the parent-child system, E. seeing alternative ways of parenting, and F. changing of persons. Among the six categories, the first three are akin to surface learning, while the last three are deep learning. The research found a hierarchical relationship among them. Conception A is considered the lowest level of learning, while F is the highest. The first three conceptions are focused on the control of the child’s behavior. In these, learning is often limited to acquiring and to applying quick fixes to regain control of the child’s behavior. The last three conceptions are focused on the development of the parent and child relationship. Learners reflect upon the assumptions that define the parent-child relationship, the assumptions on the developmental needs of the child, and the assumptions that govern parenting attitude and practices. Deep learning approaches are more systemic than the surface learning approaches. In the former, the problem is treated as something external to the learner, while in the latter the learner is treated as part of the system and is therefore also part of the problem. Transformation is more personal and internal to the learner in the latter categories. Reflection is found to be the key learning strategy in all the conceptions. The first three employ ‘practical or pragmatic reflection’, while the last three employ ‘critical reflection’ of assumptions. This study extends the field of phenomenographic research to more complex and ill-defined real life learning in a lived context.
The study concludes that for parent education to acquire an educational and developmental perspective, there is a need to treat ‘parents as learner’. The ‘conceptions of parental learning’ provide critical insights to parents as learners, which in turn give an alternative framework for parent education practitioners and researchers toward designing appropriate programs that facilitate parental learning. Facilitators should foster critical reflection, take into account the rich experiences among the learners and endeavor to harness them.published_or_final_version
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Law, Kim-hung Thomas. "Relationships between conception and practice a study of teacher's conceptions of teaching and classroom teaching practice related to cooperative learning /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35717063.
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Wallis, A. C. "Science teachers' conceptions of energy." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1989. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020187/.
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Ancmon, James P. "Conceptions of holiness an examination of St. Francis' teaching /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Jazvac, Marian. "Conceptions of teaching in higher education : challenges and recommendations." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33909.
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Research on academics' conceptions of teaching hopes to enhance understanding of how and why the process of teaching in higher education looks and works the way it does. The following work critically examines this body of literature and identifies problems associated with terminology use, construct definition and methodological procedures. As a way of providing an explanation for the insufficiently elaborated methodologies used in the empirical literature, it uses a data set similar to those used in other studies. Academics' responses to questions eliciting teaching conceptions are examined and categorized via qualitative thematic analysis. The resulting framework identifies statements of belief and knowledge that are embedded in conceptual responses.
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Siu, May-yee Lucy, and 蕭美儀. "Preservice teachers' approaches to learning and conceptions of teaching." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31958928.
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MANDARINO, MONICA CERBELLA FREIRE. "MATHEMATICS TEACHING CONCEPTIONS THAT COME FROM TEACHER S PRACTICE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2006. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9066@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOREste trabalho visou diagnosticar e compreender o que ocorre na intimidade das salas de aula, por meio de pesquisa etnográfica. A metodologia de coleta de dados envolveu: entrevista, observação direta e cópias dos materiais didáticos utilizados pelos alunos em aulas de Matemática das séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental regular, na Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, no período de 2002 a 2004. Foram analisadas 424 aulas de 116 professores, o que possibilitou a descrição das principais características das aulas observadas, usando técnicas de análise de conteúdos. Como resultados, discuto as práticas didáticas dos professores em ação e identifico características recorrentes, analisando: os materiais e recursos que escolhem, as atividades que propõem aos alunos, as relações que se estabelecem em sala de aula, os problemas complexos que os professores enfrentam, e finalmente, as concepções sobre o ensino de Matemática que parecem sustentar as práticas dos professores do grupo estudado. As análises mostram, ainda, a força de um saber profissional, que se constrói na prática, e a influência das experiências dos professores quando alunos, evidenciando a existência de uma cultura docente que preserva concepções e adapta propostas de mudança a velhas práticas.
This work strives to diagnose and comprehend what happens inside the classroom. The data collecting methodology involved: interviews, directly observation and copies of didactic material used by the students in mathematics lessons of primary schools, at Rio de Janeiro, from the year 2002 to 2004. We analyzed 424 lessons of 116 teachers, making possible the description of main observed lessons´ characteristics using content analyses. As a result, I discuss the practices of teachers in action and identify recurring characteristics, analyzing: the materials and resources selected, the activities used, the relations inside the classroom, the complex problems of teachers, and, finally, the conceptions of mathematics´ teaching that appear to support the practices of the group of teachers studied. The analysis also shows the power of the professional knowledge, built over the practice, and the influence of the experience as a student in the future teacher s formation, showing clearly the existence of a teacher´s culture that preserves acquired conceptions and fits recommendations for change into old practices.
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Torres, Ayala Ana Teresa. "Future Engineering Professors' Conceptions of Learning and Teaching Engineering." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4412.
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Conceptions of learning and teaching shape teaching practices and are, therefore, important to understanding how engineering professors learn to teach. There is abundant research about professors' conceptions of teaching; however, research on the conceptions of teaching of doctoral students, the future professors, is scarce. Furthermore, there is a need to understand not just future engineering professors' conceptions of teaching but also their conceptions of learning. The purpose of this study was to explore qualitative variations in future engineering professors' conceptions of learning and teaching as well as understanding how they came to these conceptions.
The research questions that guided this qualitative study are the following: 1) How do future engineering professors describe their conceptions of learning engineering?, 2) How do future engineering professors describe the basis of their conceptions of learning engineering?, 3) How do future engineering professors describe their conceptions of teaching engineering?, and 4) How do future engineering professors describe the basis of their conceptions of teaching engineering?
Twenty doctoral engineering students interested in academic careers were interviewed. A phenomenographic approach was used to explore variations in conceptions of learning and teaching. The basis of conceptions of learning and teaching were explored using thematic analysis.
Six variations in future engineering professors' conceptions of learning engineering emerged and included learning engineering as 1) acquiring knowledge, 2) gaining an understanding, 3) practicing problem solving, 4) applying knowledge, 5) developing an approach, and 6) maturing. Each conception of learning was described by seven dimensions or features: focus, nature of knowledge, view of engineering, strategies, assessments, interactions, and relational. Participants described the basis for their conceptions of learning engineering through four general themes: undergraduate student experience, research, graduate school experience, and prior teaching experiences.
Five categories of conceptions of teaching engineering emerged and included teaching engineering as 1) delivering knowledge, 2) helping understand and apply concepts, 3) motivating students, 4) helping students learn how to approach problems, and 5) preparing students to make socially conscious decisions. In describing conceptions of teaching, five dimensions were identified: focus, strategies, use of students' prior knowledge, faculty-student interaction, conception of learning, and projects. Observing professors, student experience, talking about teaching, and teaching experience were described by participants as the basis for their conceptions of teaching engineering.
The findings of this study are consistent with previous categorizations of university professors' conceptions of teaching from teacher-centered/content-oriented to student-centered/learning-oriented. However, this study contributes to the literature of engineering education and faculty development by contextualizing the conceptions of learning and teaching of future engineering professors. Furthermore, this study provides richer descriptions of variations in other aspects of teaching and learning engineering such as future professors' views on student interactions, student development, assessment, motivation, problem solving, assumptions about knowledge, teaching and learning strategies.
In addition, this study contributes to our understanding of how professors learn about teaching. In particular, the exploration of the basis for the conceptions of learning and teaching opens new avenues to explore how conceptions of teaching and learning evolve over time. This study closes with implications for faculty development and suggestions for further research.
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Siu, May-yee Lucy. "Preservice teachers' approaches to learning and conceptions of teaching." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1759716X.
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Shandola, Darlene. "Grade 7 students' conceptions of division." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29351.
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This study is concerned with children's conceptions of division in both computational and problem-solving settings. Division was chosen because it is a mathematical topic with which many children have difficulty. Even though division is often introduced in the primary grades and reviewed every year following, late intermediate students still have difficulty understanding this concept.
For this investigation, the researcher chose to use a semi-structured individual interview as a means of collecting data about Grade 7 students' conceptions of division in different contexts. During the interview, each student was asked to describe his or her thinking while working through a series of computations and word problems involving division with whole numbers or with decimal fractions. Both whole numbers and decimal fractions were used in the interview items in order to investigate whether or not students' conceptions of division changed as they worked with one, then the other. Twelve students were chosen for this study.
It was found that these seventh graders varied in their demonstrations of different meanings of division. Some students demonstrated only the partitive meaning, some the quotitive, some that division is the inverse of multiplication, while others demonstrated a variety of meanings of division. It was noted that students who had an understanding of both the partitive and quotitive meanings of division were more successful solving the problems presented. This could be due in part to the notion that implicit models of division, such as the partitive model, influence problem-solving behaviour.
It was also found that some students hold particular mathematical beliefs about division and about the form of the divisor which influence their problem-solving ability. Often these beliefs or misconceptions are a result of an overgeneralization of whole number rules.
A student's choice of operation could be influenced by a number of factors including a student's implicit model of division, a student's mathematical beliefs, and the implied action in a problem. Some students used immature strategies such as verbal cues or "try all the operations and see which produces the most reasonable result" to determine the operation. These strategies indicated a lack of understanding of the meaning of the division operation. In some cases, students were able to reason qualitatively but were unable to relate that reasoning to mathematical symbols. Although they could give an approximate answer, they could not perform any further calculations.
Implications for instruction resulting from this study include assessing students' conceptual understanding of the division concept and the algorithm through interviews and group discussions prior to and during instruction. Related to this is the notion of teachers ascertaining if students hold mathematical beliefs or misconceptions which may influence new learning and/or the application of knowledge. Teachers must be aware of students' thinking in order to plan instruction which will place those beliefs in context.
Instructional activities should be planned which emphasize understanding of the division concept and of the long division algorithm. There should be a linking of conceptual knowledge and procedural knowledge by pairing activities using concrete materials with symbolic representations. The division concept should be discussed in terms of both whole numbers and decimal fractions. The calculator could be used to explore relationships between the divisor, the quotient, the dividend, and the remainder in these different number systems.Education, Faculty of
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Massey, Geraldine. "Seven conceptions of CD-ROM information resources." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1995. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36510/1/36510_Massey_1995.pdf.
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At present and in the future, vast amounts of information are being
presented and will continue to be presented in a variety of formats
that are technologically dependent. In a society where information is a
key commodity, students need to develop skills which will help them
deal with the information, as well as the format in which it is
presented. Currently, one way used to present information is in the
format of CD-ROM information resources. Students' experiences of
CD-ROM information resources to gain access to information they
require in their daily lives, either in the context of their school work or
their personal information needs, may influence the development of
crucial information skills.
Previous research into CD-ROM information resources and their use
by students has adopted a first-order perspective. That is, it has
looked at technical aspects of the design of CD-ROM information
resources; the effectiveness of CD-ROM information resources; and
the observed use of CD-ROM information resources. This study
adopts a second-order perspective to investigate students'
experiences of CD-ROM information resources from the students'
point of view. Such a perspective emphasizes the non-dualistic
nature of the relationship that exists between students and CD-ROM
information resources.
Fifty-six male secondary students from two independent schools in
Brisbane took part in ten synergetic focus group discussions and
forty-nine of those students completed written responses to provide
data for this study. The data were then analysed
phenomenographically to discover the qualitatively different ways in
which CD-ROM information resources were experienced by those
students Seven conceptions of CD-ROM information resources were
discovered. Participants saw CD-ROM information resources as
Emerging Technological Resources, as Terra lncognita, as the Future
of Information, as Tools, as Information Silos, as Learning Media and
as Limited Information Resources. The structural relationship that
exists between the conceptions was found to be dependent on the
degree to which CD-ROM information resources were seen either to
facilitate or not to facilitate physical or intellectual access to
information.
A comparison of the participants' conceptions with the "authorized"
conceptions revealed that six of the seven conceptions were held by
both the participants and the experts in the field. This comparative
rate helps to validate this study. The reliability of the findings was
confirmed by the use of a co-judge who scrutinized a sample of the
data to allocate selected quotations to the categories chosen to
describe the conceptions. A high interjudge reliability rate was
achieved.
The study shows how teachers and teacher-librarians can use a
knowledge of the conceptions discovered to introduce students to
different ways of experiencing CD-ROM information resources. These
different experiences may help to promote the development by
students of the information skills so necessary for students to
participate actively in the information age, now and in the future.
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Kemp, Sandra Joy. "Conceptions of teaching and pedagogical actions: Influences of professional development." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489381.
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Moreano, Giovanna, Ursula Asmad, Gustavo Cruz, and Gisele Cuglievan. "Conceptions about mathematics teaching in teachers of primary public schools." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/101723.
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This paper is part of a qualitative research study that took place in five public schools of Lima between 2005 and 2007. The goal was to identify teachers’ conceptions about teaching and learning in order to understand their pedagogic practice. The sample included 9 sixth grade teachers of primary schools. Results show that traditional pedagogic conceptions are strongly rooted and this is reflected in the pedagogic practice of all teachers. Mathematics teaching is characterized by the following of rules and procedures, the routine practice of exercises, the use of key words and the lack of a significant context for learning.Esta investigación forma parte de un estudio cualitativo, realizado en cinco escuelas estatales de Lima entre el 2005 y el 2007. El principal objetivo fue identificar las concepciones que los docentes sostenían sobre la enseñanza y aprendizaje de matemática para comprender su práctica pedagógica. La muestra estuvo conformada por nueve docentes de sexto grado de primaria. Los resultados muestran un fuerte arraigo de las concepciones pedagógicas tradicionales, que se encuentra reflejado en las prácticas pedagógicas de los docentes. La enseñanza de matemática se caracterizó por el seguimiento de reglas y procedimientos, la práctica rutinaria de ejercicios, el uso de palabras clave y la falta de un contexto significativo para su aprendizaje.
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Brewer, Meaghan. "The Conceptions of Literacy of New Graduate Instructors Teaching Composition." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/229406.
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This study explores the variety of understandings of literacy, or conceptions of literacy, that exist among graduate instructors in the fields of English literature, rhetoric and composition, and creative writing in their first semester of teaching and what the implications are for having these conceptions, particularly with regard to their teaching. I collected two kinds of data from seven participants who were enrolled in a fall 2010 composition practicum at a large, public university in the Northeast. The data I elicited included interviews of participants in which they examine their own writing, an assignment ranking activity, observations of participants as they teach composition, and field notes I collected from the Practicum course meetings. I also collected artifacts from their work in the Practicum course and their teaching, including two drafts of a literacy autobiography that they wrote for the practicum and marked-up student paper drafts from the composition course they were teaching. Following the work of Michael W. Smith and Dorothy Strickland, I parsed the data by content units. Using Peter Goggin's categories for defining literacy from Professing Literacy in Composition Studies, I coded data using the qualitative data management system Atlas.ti according to seven conceptions: literacy for personal growth, literacy for personal growth, social/critical literacy, critical activist literacy, cultural literacy, functionalist literacy, and instrumental literacy. My analysis of the data reveals that graduate instructors came to their first semester of teaching with powerful preconceptions about why people read, write, and engage in other literacy activities and that these positions deeply affected their teaching. I also contend that although all of the graduate instructors had complex, multifaceted conceptions of literacy, each graduate instructor had one primary conception, which acted as a kind of lens through which every other conception was viewed and filtered. This primary conception functioned as the graduate instructors' terministic screen for viewing literacy, even when other conceptions were at play. Finally, given the fact that all of the graduate instructors received the same syllabus for the composition course they were teaching, the extent to which each one of them was able to inscribe their own ideas about teaching and literacy onto the course was surprising and points to the power of these literacy orientations, even in the face of competing conceptions communicated to them in their practicum.
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Kwako, Joan. "Assessment task design developing mathematics teaching assistants' conceptions of assessment." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2005. http://d-nb.info/988720833/04.
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McSorley, Julie A. F. "Primary school teachers' conceptions of the teaching of art criticism." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1993. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36691/1/36691_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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Collins, Roz. "Seeing the point : conceptions of learning and teaching for transfer and influences on teaching practice." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2008. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/67472/.
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This research explored the relationship between lecturers’ conceptions of transferability of learning and the influence of this on their teaching practice. The central proposition was that if transferability of learning lies at the heart of teaching, then lecturers should have specific conceptions of transfer which underpin and feature in their teaching. The research was a qualitative study comparing the teaching of two different courses in similar subject areas at one university. One course had a professional vocational orientation and the other was a more generic degree programme. The main methods of investigation were semi – structured interviews, observations and focus groups. Data were analysed using a variety of processes but focusing particularly on exploring variations and internal relationships common to phenomenographical techniques. A matrix framework was produced, locating lecturers’ conceptions of teaching for transfer with observations of their practice. One of the main findings was that lecturers did hold conceptions of teaching for transfer and there was a marked difference between those held by psychology lecturers and those by social work lecturers. Secondly there was some evidence that these conceptions did influence teaching practice and that transfer techniques occurred most frequently when teachers drew on experience whether their own or those of students. These findings build upon and extend previous research associated with conceptions of learning and teaching by adding the dimension of ‘focus on transfer’. The greater the focus on transfer and this was particularly so with the social work lecturers who used more of the teaching for transfer techniques than the psychology lecturers, the more able students were to ‘see the point’ and apply their learning. Being explicit with students about why any aspect of the curriculum was relevant and how it could be applied, facilitated the learning transfer process.
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Chan, Sin-yan, and 陳倩欣. "Students' conceptions of stoichiometry at the submicro level." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/209683.
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Stoichiometry is an important topic in chemistry. It tells how many reactants are required to produce a certain amount of product in terms of mass, mole and volume. Learning stoichiometric calculation involves the understanding of certain concepts such as the mole, stoichiometric ratios and chemical equations. Some studies attributed the failure in learning stoichiometry to the unfamiliarity with the amount of substance in a mole and students’ weakness in the mathematical ability. Nevertheless how students connect the submicro level and the symbolic level in learning stoichiometry was not discussed widely.
In this study, two examples of chemical reactions with different levels of difficulties were used to probe students’ conceptual understanding in stoichiometry at the submicro level. Their strategies used in stoichiometric calculations were examined by an interview study of five Secondary Five students. The connection between the submicro level and the symbolic level in learning stoichiometry would be also probed into. Results indicate that the failure of stoichiometry learning may due to the disconnection in different levels of representation and students’ generated strategy – ‘one portion reasoning’. An implication for teaching and learning is that teachers should use diagrams at the submicro level in the teaching of stoichiometry. Such diagrams should aim to help students building connections across the three levels of representation and enhancing students’ conceptual understanding in stoichiometry.published_or_final_version
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Ho, Suk-ping Angela. "Changing teachers' conceptions of teaching as an approach to enhancing teaching and learning in tertiary education /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20263508.
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Butler, Abigail. "The relationship among preservice music education teachers' conceptions of teaching effectiveness, microteaching experiences, and teaching performance." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289016.
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Fifteen undergraduate music education majors enrolled in an introductory music education course at a major university in the Southwestern United States participated in this study. Students constructed concept maps on the topic teacher effectiveness as a measure of their cognitive schemata. They completed two microteaching lessons in two different settings which were videotaped and subsequently analyzed using the Survey of Teaching Effectiveness and a time sampling procedure using criteria from teacher intensity research. Following their microteachings students constructed a second concept map on the same topic. Students were interviewed to explore the nature of their thinking about effective teaching. Quantitative analyses were conducted using data from the concept maps and both measures of teacher effectiveness. Results of a dependent t-test showed no significance difference between map scores either for total score or component scores of extensiveness and coherence. Spearman Rank Correlations were calculated between map scores and subjects' scores on both the STE and TI measures. No significant correlations were found to exist. Qualitative analyses were completed based on data from concept maps, self-evaluations, and interviews. Frequency responses by categories and data source indicated subjects' responses fell into two main areas: teacher effectiveness and skills and strategies. Within these two areas four sub-categories were targeted for further analysis: knowledge, teacher traits, delivery and instructional skills. Frequency responses for all but delivery skills were quite high. The following conclusions were drawn: (1) Preservice teachers have a clear picture of what it means to be an effective teacher. They describe an effective teacher as knowledgeable, possessing a variety of personal characteristics, and engaging in specific teacher actions. (2) Preservice teachers' cognitive structure does not change after the completion of two microteaching experiences. There is some indication that changes in the content of their thinking arise following their microteachings. (3) There is no relationship between preservice teachers' cognitive structure and their ability to demonstrate effective teaching behaviors. However, qualitative analyses suggest a possible connection between the content of their thinking and their ability to teach effectively. Implications for education and future research are discussed.
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Robertson, Prudence Jane. "Making connections : conceptions of teaching and learning in secondary teacher education." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Christchurch College of Education, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3747.
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This thesis investigates the conceptions of teaching and learning held by a
small group of students completing a one year course in secondary teacher
education at the Christchurch College of Education. Seven students were
interviewed, observed and surveyed over a period of eight months, to track the
development in their conceptions and the factors impacting on this
development. The phenomenographic interview formed the primary means
of data collection. Conceptions emerging from the data were categorised in
terms of their fundamental differences.
Findings are presented in two parts. Firstly a profile of each student is
constructed from the data gathered; each profile concludes with a brief
authorial comment. Secondly, conceptions of teaching and learning are
categorised and compared with existing categories of conceptions. While the
students' conceptions of learning are found to correspond closely to existing
categories, different categories of conceptions of teaching have been identified.
A model of conceptions of teaching is presented in which the categories are
considered to be complementary rather than hierarchical.
This thesis suggests that there is a close link between students' conceptions of
learning and their approaches to teaching; that prior educational experiences,
especially the influence of significant teachers, has a strong and lasting impact
on students' ideas about teaching and learning; that these ideas undergo
modification rather than substantial change as a result of pre-service teacher
education; that time constraints and the teaching approaches of some associate
teachers in schools may encourage students to adopt teaching methods which
encourage surface approaches to learning in their pupils; and that effective
teaching should draw on all three categories of conceptions of teaching
presented in the model.
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Ng, Kar-wai Vivien, and 吳家慧. "Teachers' conceptions of liberal studies teaching in a case study school." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/209524.
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This study is a qualitative case study which aims to investigate teachers’ conceptions of Liberal Studies teaching in a case study school after Liberal Studies became compulsory in the Senior Secondary curriculum. A list of aspects of teaching were compiled based on previous research studies and were used to identify teachers’ conceptions. Data were collected from three participating teachers with two research tools, namely, lesson observations and semi-structured interviews. The teachers came from different educational backgrounds but they taught students at the same secondary level. The findings reveal that participating teachers possess multiple conceptions and there are discrepancies between what they think Liberal Studies teaching should be and their real classroom practices. They also do not have complete understanding of what an issue-enquiry approach is. The reasons participating Liberal Studies teachers gave in response to the formation of their conceptions are found to be related to their major subject taught or major subject completed at a degree level. It is also found that when they attended Liberal Studies related training courses, they tended to use their educational background to selectively pick up teaching strategies introduced in the courses.published_or_final_version
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Stein, Sarah Jane. "Students' conceptions of science across the years of schooling." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1996.
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The alternative frameworks movement has in the last ten to fifteen years emphasized that having knowledge of the variety of ways students conceptualize science assists
teachers to tap into students' current understanding of science concepts. This enables teachers to apply their science knowledge together with their teaching and
learning knowledge most appropriately. Using a phenomenographic research approach, this study examined students' conceptions of the nature of science.
Categories of description about how students conceptualize science were derived from the writings of students' experience of science in Years 4, 7, 9, 11 and 12. Four outcome spaces that indicated links across a range of the categories of description were outlined. The results suggest the need for educators to be concerned about the experience of science being portrayed to students, including the more experienced years 11 and 12 students, and to ensure that a modem philosophical view of the nature of science is made explicit in curricula they implement.
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Wilson, Susan Worth. "Changing conceptions of practice in home economics education." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25538.
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This thesis investigates changes in the underlying pattern of beliefs and actions central to the development of home economics education. Examination of the historical context in which training in domestic matters became of public concern discloses the circumstances which fostered the genesis of domestic science, the forerunner of contemporary home economics in Canada. Subsequently, analysing the curriculum of British Columbia schools using the notion of practice illustrates the ways in which programs changed as home economics became accepted as a school subject.
At the end of the nineteenth century social reformers perceived the introduction of domestic science as a means of ameliorating many social maladies. Therefore support for training in domestic matters primarily arose from organizations lying outside the school system. Though social and educational reformers viewed the purposes of domestic science differently, together they were successful in promoting domestic science as a responsibility of public schools.
Four interpretations of practice identified as customary, instrumental, interactive and reflective conceptions, help us to understand the documents and reports significant to the growth of home economics in British Columbia. These conceptions are rooted in the writings of critical theorists in education and are used in this study to clarify the ways in which the home economics program changed over a period of seventy-five years.
As a new subject for British Columbia schools home economics was most closely associated with customary practice, which reinforces the traditional expertise of women. The strong framework of social purpose characteristic of early programs both insulated families from perceived urban-industrial disorder and helped them to adjust to the changes of the era. Analysis of the curriculum since 1926 reveals that home economics has become increasingly associated with an instrumental conception of practice. While the 1979 curriculum begins to acknowledge interactive practice in the family studies area, overall the contemporary course of studies is firmly entrenched in understanding human experience only in instrumental ways.
The study makes clear that throughout the evolution of home economics the beliefs and actions underlying school programs are characterized by customary and instrumental concerns at the expense of interactive and reflective practice. If educators are to contribute to the mission of the profession, that of strengthening families by helping them to help themselves, then there is need for a broader interpretation of practice in the school curriculum.Education, Faculty of
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Cheung, Kok-chung, and 張覺沖. "The relationship between a teacher's conceptions and her teaching practice: an example from the teaching ofPythagoras' theorem." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31962506.
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Mak, Yee-chi, and 麥綺慈. "A study on the relationship between teachers' conceptions of teaching and use of information technology in teaching." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3196252X.
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Mak, Yee-chi. "A study on the relationship between teachers' conceptions of teaching and use of information technology in teaching." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B23436700.
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Wong, Kit-mei, and 黃潔薇. "Preschool teachers' conceptions and pratices of art education." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31959866.
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Borgford-Parnell, James L. "Conceptions of teaching in a research-intensive university : what effective teachers think /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7520.
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Harding, James Craig. "Teachers' conceptions of history education, a phenomenographic inquiry." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0021/NQ46353.pdf.
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Gue, David Leslie, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "Surveying alternative conceptions about energy in the classroom." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1992, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/53.
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Secondary school pupils' concepts of energy were probed by clinical interviews and a multiple choice survey administered to 84 Alberta students. Preliminary information was gathered from curriculum documents, misconceptions literature and eight preliminary interviews. Both the interviews and the written survey were based on the interview-about-intances approach and used multiple-choice questions with free-response justification of answers. The wide range of alternative conceptions that were expressed paralleled findings of similar studies elsewhere. Most descriptions of energy were framed in substantive or ambiguous terms. Energy was frequently associated with living things, movement, and task performance. It was confused with concepts of heat, force, and pressure. Changes in physical systems were seen variously as consuming energy or as producing it upon demand. Aspects of a scientific conception were more evident among senior physics students, but differences between classes and grade levels did not generally reach statistical significance. Very few responses involved notions of energy as an abstract or conserved quantity. References to energy degradation or dissipation during changes were infrequent in interviews, survey responses, and curriculum documents. Subjects tended to choose similar responses on parallel interview and survey quesitions. Interview subjects showed evidence of preferred conceptual orientations towards a variety of situations, although their survey responses showed no parallel consistency. Conflicting evidence was obtained regarding the spontaneous use of energy-based descriptions of physical situations. Findings were interpreted from a constructivist stance, and implications for the study and teaching of specific topics were drawn. In addition, results suggested the efficacy of appropriate multiple choice instruments as an alternative to clinical interviews in the investigation of alternative conceptions.xi, 234 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.
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Magro, Karen Mary. "Exploring English teachers' conceptions of teaching and learning in adult education contexts." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0016/NQ45635.pdf.
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Rehmani, Amin A. M. "Teachers' conceptions of teaching : case studies of professional development teachers from Pakistan." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020646/.
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Wojnowski, David. "Traditional and Scientific Conceptions of Snakes in Kenya: Alternative Perspectives for Teaching." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1207830544.
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Penn-Edwards, Sorrel. "Conceptions of information video in university research and teaching: A phenomenographic study." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1998. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36565/1/36565_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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Video, a major medium of communication with which this study is concerned, is seen to possess characteristics distinguishing it from broadcast television. Five genres of video are identified: Information, Documentary, Entertainment, Enrichment, and Experimental, the first of which embraces usage in research and teaching. In this respect Information Video has two sub-genres, Process Video (unplanned and/or unscripted) and Product Video (planned and/or scripted), both of which are examined in this study.
The locale of the field of study is within post-mass media communication with the theoretical framework deriving from the work of Krippendorff who states that whilst no one individual can share another's thoughts (internal understandings) there can be 'expressed understandings' communicable to others. Because individuals are different, as are their experiences and backgrounds, the extent to which an 'expressed understanding' is shared will vary from person to person.
'Internal understandings' about Information Video as used in research and teaching are only able to be articulated when they become 'expressed understandings'. Those understandings or conceptions, which are 'understood' by others, become shared and form a 'collective pool' of 'expressed understandings'. In specific areas such as jurisprudence, visual anthropology and the quantitative sciences, the 'collective pool' of expressed understandings is formalised in published procedures, codes and texts thus becoming 'procedural'. This study lies in the domain of research and teaching in which there is no formalised recognition of collective 'expressed understandings'; that is, where Information Video is non-procedural.
Problematisation of an issue or process occurs in two distinct stages: awareness of the existence of the context in which the issue or process lies (conceptualisation) and identification of the issue or process within the context (proceduralisation). This study proposes that although the use of Information Video may be non-procedural it is not necessarily 'unconceptualised'. Following this the research questions are 'What conceptions of the phenomenon of Information Video in researc~ and teaching are held by non-procedural users ?'and 'Is it necessary for the use of Information Video to be problematised in all research and teaching?'.
A communication model for Information Video is created to facilitate contextual grouping and discussion of published reports from non-procedural users covering a broad spectrum of use and disciplines. This model comprises five elements; VideoRecording (technological and human factors influencing recording), Video-Viewing (technological and human factors influencing viewing), Video-Medium (characteristics of the video-medium; technical and human aspects), Video-Data (technical considerations and human understandings of the video-data), and Video in a Research and Teaching Context (function of video in a research and teaching context; technical and human aspects).
Documentation of the procedural use of Information Video shows that problematisation includes practical factors (shot sizes and obtrusive placement of equipment), and philosophic considerations (theories of realism and emotive responses), both of which influence the recording, viewing and interpretation. These factors are also applicable in non-procedural use.
The literature makes clear that where non-procedural users consider that Information Video can have measured influence on events it is occasioned by 'chance' and introspection without reference or adequate comprehension and experience of video use.
Twenty staff and postgraduate students are interviewed, their responses phenomenographically analysed and six categories of description of Information Video extracted; Video as Data-Reality, Video as Subject-Facilitation, Video as a DataPackage, Video as Practitioner-Augmentation, Video as a Practitioner-Problem, and Video as a Data-Component.
The multifarious relationships between the six categories and research and teaching are clarified in the diagram where the Outcome Space displays the manner of practitioner approach (grounded either in 'theory' or 'practice'), and a focus on 'video-data' or on 'videoing', the latter being a process which includes the role of people and equipment.
Comparison of categories of description held by the interviewees, and mentioned in the published literature reviewed, shows that although researchers and teachers may use video in a non-procedural way, (the second stage of problematisation), the first stage of problematisation, that of conceptualisation, is present. This is found to be characterised by fragmentation, diversity, non-specific relationships with disciplines, sublimation, and introspection.
This study also finds that for texts to be comprehensive and useful to a wide range of Information Video users, individual understandings must be addressed. It proposes that a non-discipline based Information Video in research and teaching text may be a way to improve the use of 'non-procedural' Information Video.
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Au, Kit-oi Eliza. "A study on student teachers' conceptions of teaching : analysis based on metaphors and reflection /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13553823.
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Ebenezer, Jazlin Vasanthakumari. "Students' conceptions of solubility : a teacher-researcher collaborative study." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32245.
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For the last fifteen years, research on students' conceptions of physical phenomena has been directing our attention to the value of knowing and considering children's prior ideas in science teaching. Although many who are concerned with science education are aware of and see wisdom in this perspective of teaching, there are many realities, including the content of the discipline, that pose great challenges in translating it into practice in science classes.
Currently, in collaboration with teachers, science educators are actively conducting classroom studies. In this process, teachers as researchers are making reflective inquiries into their own students' learning. This study followed a similar framework of research at a microcosmic level. It entailed elicitation of thirteen Grade 11 students' individual prior conceptions of solubility and a teacher-researcher collaboration to incorporate these conceptions in the instruction of a unit on solution chemistry. Consequently, the study presents a phenomenography of solubility, narrates a story about classroom instruction which took students' conceptions into consideration, reports four case studies on students' conceptual growth and changes, and outlines some of the factors that facilitate or constrain collaborative teaching that focuses on student understanding of subject matter.
The students' prior conceptions of solubility were categorized into six categories of description:
1. physical transformation from solid to liquid
2. chemical transformation of solute
3. density of solute
4. amount of space available in solution
5. properties of solute
6. size of solute particles
With regard to learning chemistry, these conceptualizations made clear four issues: (1) students' explanations were bounded by their perceptions, (2) students extended macroscopic explanations to a microscopic level, (3) students made inappropriate links to previous chemistry learning, and (4) students used the language of chemistry non-discriminately.
After studying a unit on solution chemistry, two more categories of description were added to the pre-instructional categories:
1. chemical structure of components
2. solution equilibrium
After instruction, the students attributing to the initial six categories of description' diminished in number. The newly acquired conceptions of solubility reflected insufficient explanatory power and were merely overlaid with the chemical language. Learning the language of solution chemistry and acquiring some theoretical understanding of it were reflected in the change between pre- and post-instructional conceptions. This conceptual change can be considered as evolutionary. It was inferred that the abstract and ambiguous nature of chemical theories and principles sets limits to conceptual change teaching.
The influences that facilitated the collaborative efforts include: (1) the teacher's attempts to incorporate students' conceptions, (2) the teacher's openness and willingness to assess her own methods of teaching chemistry, (3) the teacher's reflections about the researcher's constructivist teaching, and (4) the researcher's active participation in the classroom interactions. The four most important influences that seriously constrained the collaborative efforts to link students' conceptions with formal chemistry were: (1) the lack of time to devote to the topic of solution chemistry, (2) the lack of teacher
time to plan lessons together in order to incorporate students' conceptions, (3) the lack of practical experience on the part of both the researcher and the teacher in developing specific teaching strategies which acknowledged students' prior belief in this content area, and (4) the lack of time to develop common perspectives and a shared language.
This study has implications for both teachers and researchers. Specifically, it implies that students' conceptions form an integral component of chemistry instruction—as points of origin for lesson planning and development of curricular materials It also implies that through science educators' modelling and practising in their "teaching and learning" courses, pre- and in-service teachers be challenged to seek answers for epistemological questions such as: What is chemical knowledge? and, How is it acquired? A general implication is that both teachers and researchers, rather than being fence-makers, must strive to be bridge-builders so that they can be learners of each other's theoretical and practical experiences.Education, Faculty of
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Cheung, Kok-chung. "The relationship between a teacher's conceptions and her teaching practice : an example from the teaching of Pythagoras' theorem /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B23500803.
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To, Wai-tik, and 杜偉迪. "Secondary students' conceptions of learning economics." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31963523.
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Forbes, Helen. "Clinical teachers’ experiences of nursing and teaching." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2060.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Abstract Clinical teachers’ experiences of nursing and teaching Clinical nurse teachers’ experiences of nursing and teaching undergraduate nursing students on clinical placement are explored in this thesis because of concerns about the quality of nursing students’ learning outcomes. The aim was to identify variation in clinical teachers’ conceptions of nursing and their conceptions of, and approaches to teaching undergraduate nursing students. The study was significant because clinical teachers’ conceptions of nursing and approaches to clinical teaching have not been researched previously. Underpinning the study was a phenomenographic perspective on learning and teaching. This perspective views learning and teaching in terms of how they were experienced. Experience of nursing and clinical teaching, for example, can be understood in terms of related ‘what’ and ‘how’ aspects. The ‘what’ aspect concerns how nursing and clinical teaching were understood. The ‘how’ aspect is concerned the ways nursing and clinical teaching were approached. Experience of nursing and clinical teaching were described and analysed in terms of the separate ‘what’ and ‘how’ aspects and are understood in terms of the relationship between each of the aspects. Data from semi-structured interviews with twenty clinical teachers were analysed using phenomenographic research techniques (Marton & Booth, 1997) in order to identify variation in how nursing and clinical teaching were experienced. To extend the description, the research also sought to identify the empirical relationships between each of the aspects investigated. Key aspects of variation in clinical teacher experiences of nursing and clinical teaching and associated relationships have been identified. The results suggest that clinical teachers who adopted a student-centred approach to teaching conceived of nursing and clinical teaching in complex ways. The phenomenographic approach provides for an experiential and holistic account of clinical teaching: a perspective absent in nursing education research literature. The research findings extend knowledge that will assist with preparation and support of clinical teachers.
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Tam, Kwok-hin, and 談國軒. "Biology students' conceptions of evolution: aphenomenography." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31961940.
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Ireland, Joseph Ernest. "Inquiry teaching in primary science : a phenomenographic study." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/45772/1/Joseph_Ireland_Thesis.pdf.
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In spite of having a long history in education, inquiry teaching (the teaching in ways that foster inquiry based learning in students) in science education is still a highly problematic issue. However, before teacher educators can hope to effectively influence teacher implementation of inquiry teaching in the science classroom, educators need to understand teachers’ current conceptions of inquiry teaching. This study describes the qualitatively different ways in which 20 primary school teachers experienced inquiry teaching in science education. A phenomenographic approach was adopted and data sourced from interviews of these teachers. The three categories of experiences that emerged from this study were; Student Centred Experiences (Category 1), Teacher Generated Problems (Category 2), and Student Generated Questions (Category 3). In Category 1 teachers structure their teaching around students sensory experiences, expecting that students will see, hear, feel and do interesting things that will focus their attention, have them asking science questions, and improve their engagement in learning. In Category 2 teachers structure their teaching around a given problem they have designed and that the students are required to solve. In Category 3 teachers structure their teaching around helping students to ask and answer their own questions about phenomena. These categories describe a hierarchy with the Student Generated Questions Category as the most inclusive. These categories were contrasted with contemporary educational theory, and it was found that when given the chance to voice their own conceptions without such comparison teachers speak of inquiry teaching in only one of the three categories mentioned. These results also help inform our theoretical understanding of teacher conceptions of inquiry teaching. Knowing what teachers actually experience as inquiry teaching, as opposed to understand theoretically, is a valuable contribution to the literature. This knowledge provides a valuable contribution to educational theory, which helps policy, curriculum development, and the practicing primary school teachers to more fully understand and implement the best educative practices in their daily work. Having teachers experience the qualitatively different ways of experiencing inquiry teaching uncovered in this study is expected to help teachers to move towards a more student-centred, authentic inquiry outcome for their students and themselves. Going beyond this to challenge teacher epistemological beliefs regarding the source of knowledge may also assist them in developing more informed notions of the nature of science and of scientific inquiry during professional development opportunities. The development of scientific literacy in students, a high priority for governments worldwide, will only to benefit from these initiatives.
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Hodkinson, Alan John. "Primary children's developing conceptions of historical time : analysing approaches to teaching and learning." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397050.
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