Does specialization in geography teaching determine teachers' conceptions of geography teaching?
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10382046.2021.1970967" target="_blank" >10.1080/10382046.2021.1970967</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Does specialization in geography teaching determine teachers' conceptions of geography teaching?
Original language description
Many countries worldwide consider the demand for lowering the qualification level of teachers as a possible solution to the long-term lack of qualified teachers, aging teaching staff, and high teacher drop-out rate. In Czechia, geography is increasingly being taught by non-specialist teachers; therefore, we compared specialized and non-specialized geography teachers' teaching conceptions. Drawing on previous robust qualitative research, we developed a questionnaire measuring teachers' conceptions of geography teaching and surveyed Czech lower secondary in-service geography teachers (n = 530). Path analysis revealed that specialized geography teachers report longer and stronger relationships between the conceptions that may represent a wider range of geographies available to students. Non-specialized teachers demonstrated only a narrow and limited epistemological awareness of the subject. Our research serves as evidence supporting the inevitability of teachers' specialization in the discipline.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-08315S" target="_blank" >GA18-08315S: Teachers’ Perceptions of Geography and Geography Teaching</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
ISSN
1038-2046
e-ISSN
1747-7611
Volume of the periodical
31
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
242-260
UT code for WoS article
000705141100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85116729286