ACQUISITION OF SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGY COMPETENCES BY PRIMARY PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS: MYTH OR REALITY?
ACQUISITION OF SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGY COMPETENCES BY PRIMARY PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS: MYTH OR REALITY?

Author(s): Abdeljalil Métioui, Louis Trudel
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: training; pre-service teachers; primary school; knowledge competence; pedagogical knowledge competence
Summary/Abstract: In the present research of a qualitative type, we present the results of an experimentation led with 94 pre-service primary teachers from Quebec in Canada. The experimentation, which lasts four months at the rate of three hours per week, took place in two phases. The first phase took place in 4 steps in order to help student teachers to acquire knowledge competency in science and pedagogical knowledge competency, in accordance with the curriculum of the ministry of the education of the government of Quebec. In the second phase, the students had to prepare two teaching sequences centered on laboratory experimentations to the intention of their future pupils of the first, second or third cycle (please note that each cycle lasts for two years). For it, they had to follow an approach similar to the one experienced in the first phase. Finally, they had to complete a questionnaire to specify the difficulties of a scientific or pedagogical nature that they encountered during the conceptions of their teaching sequences. The analysis of the sequences constructed and of the data of the questionnaire shows an effort important on their behalf, in spite of the difficulties they met and that will be presented.

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