Misconceptions and conceptual change in geography teacher education
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<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04891-3_12" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04891-3_12</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04891-3_12" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-031-04891-3_12</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Misconceptions and conceptual change in geography teacher education
Original language description
To become a good geography teacher requires developing knowledge, understanding, skills, and attitudes in the field of geography as well as in pedagogical principles. When preparing future teachers, their own conceptual understanding of fundamental geographic concepts must be considered. Given that, identification of teachers' understanding as well as their misconceptions should be used to adapt the content of the courses. Otherwise, teachers' misconceptions might not be refuted during their training. Such misconceptions could subsequently be transmitted to pupils after the pre-service teachers start their teaching careers. Therefore, it is crucial to encourage conceptual change in pre-service teachers' thinking to avoid the snowball effect of passing on misunderstandings of important geographic concepts. This chapter focuses on geography pre-service teachers' misconceptions related to maps. It reports on an example of how to identify misconceptions (using empirical data as evidence) and encourage conceptual change. This approach was developed by and is used in the geography teacher training program at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague. It is demonstrated in the case of one map-related concept: contours as a form of relief depiction in large-scale maps.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Geography Teacher Education and Professionalization
ISBN
978-3-031-04890-6
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
181-197
Number of pages of the book
331
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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