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Article: Reflecting on elementary children's understanding of history and social studies: an inquiry project with beginning teachers in Northern Ireland and the United States.
- Article from:
- Journal of Teacher Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
- Author:
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A critical responsibility for teacher educators is engaging beginning teachers in reflection on children's learning, particularly with regard to their prior knowledge and the structure of their ideas in specific subjects. This can be a daunting task. Action research seems a more promising avenue for developing this kind of reflection and understanding than classroom lectures, yet beginning teachers have many things on their minds besides children's cognition, and they rarely have the knowledge or skills to develop investigations into students' disciplinary ideas on their own. Unfortunately (and ironically), an increasing emphasis on high-stakes testing and accountability ...