Pre-service geography teachers? conceptual understanding of contours on maps: implications for teacher training in cartography

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03098265.2024.2410759" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03098265.2024.2410759</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2024.2410759" target="_blank" >10.1080/03098265.2024.2410759</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Pre-service geography teachers? conceptual understanding of contours on maps: implications for teacher training in cartography

Original language description

Developing young people?s understanding of geography concepts requires teachers who have detailed, structured, interconnected, and accurate conceptual knowledge and understanding. Accordingly, this study focuses on pre-service geography teachers? understanding of the exemplar concept of contours on maps and discusses its implications for teacher training programmes. Data collected using a two-tier conceptual test and a questionnaire in a sample of 127 pre-service geography teachers indicated that pre-service teachers should not be perceived as a homogenous group with identical conceptual understandings and educational needs. The results highlighted the necessity to differentiate between pre-service teachers not only based on their conceptual understanding but also on the non-cognitive dimensions of concepts. Four types of pre-service teachers were identified based on success and certainty rates: successful-certain (SC), successful-uncertain (SU), failing-uncertain (FU) and failing-certain (FC). Both SU and FU types were characterised by low confidence in their related skills and a negative relationship to the concept of contours. The non-cognitive dimension manifested in opposite ways in SC and FC types. The specific educational approach required by each type is discussed, and implications for further research are presented.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

ISSN

0309-8265

e-ISSN

1466-1845

Volume of the periodical

2024

Issue of the periodical within the volume

"necislovano"

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

1-19

UT code for WoS article

001327459500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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