Are Pre-Service Teachers Able to Answer Children's Questions about the Natural Sciences? The Characterization of Questions by Children and Students of the Early Childhood Education Degree

Autor/inn/en	Torres-Porras, Jerónimo; Alcántara-Manzanares, Jorge
Titel	Are Pre-Service Teachers Able to Answer Children's Questions about the Natural Sciences? The Characterization of Questions by Children and Students of the Early Childhood Education Degree
Quelle	In: Journal of Turkish Science Education, 19 (2022) 2, S.374-388 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Torres-Porras, Jerónimo) ORCID (Alcántara-Manzanares, Jorge)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; Knowledge Base for Teaching; Science Instruction; Natural Sciences; Early Childhood Education; Scientific Literacy; Preschool Children; Inquiry + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching theory; Theory of teaching; Unterrichtstheorie; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Naturwissenschaften; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule
Abstract	One of the main objectives of science education is to produce students and, in general, a society that is scientifically literate. To achieve this objective, teachers across the different educational stages must work on science at school, so it is essential that students in education degrees reach scientific competence, but for this, it would be necessary to know the questions raised by schoolchildren about natural sciences, to be able to work from their interests and confront the pre-service teachers with these questions, as well as to know the interests of the university students themselves. In this research, a case study has compiled spontaneous questions about natural sciences that pre-school students ask their parents, and they have been compared with those made by pre-service teachers. The results show that the questions are similar in terms of subject matter and complexity and that only some are investigable questions. In addition, university students are not able to answer children's questions with their own knowledge, which implies the need to work more on science in the study plans of Education degrees and help them devise strategies to work them. It is also necessary to stress that it is important not only to know the answer, but also to have the capacity to organise activities that encourage students to search for answers on their own. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Journal of Turkish Science Education. e-mail: editortused@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.tused.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01