Development of Preservice Science Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in the context of Lesson Study

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the development of preservice science teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in the context of lesson study. The lesson study was integrated into the Practice Teaching in Science course, and there were four lesson study cycles throughout the study. Each lesson study cycle consisted of planning, teaching, reflecting, re-teaching, and re-reflecting phases. The design of the study was a multiple case study, and the participants of the study were four preservice science teachers who were in their final year in the science teacher education program. The data were collected through interviews, content representation, observation protocol, and video-recorded meetings. Inductive and deductive data analysis were used, and three PCK categories (topic-specific PCK, transitional PCK, and PCK for STEM) emerged to track participants’ PCK for STEM development levels. The main findings of the study revealed that participants were not able to integrate the elements of STEM education into their content representation, and their PCK was topic-specific (PCK-A) at the beginning of the study. However, all participants showed improvement in the level of their PCK for STEM at the end of the study. Participants in the transitional PCK category (PCK-B) focused more on science or engineering disciplines while integrating STEM education. On the other hand, participants in PCK for STEM category (PCK-C) integrated STEM disciplines in a more balanced way. Moreover, the elements of lesson study were found to be influential in assisting preservice science teachers’ improvement of PCK for STEM.

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STEM Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Lesson Study, Science Teacher Education

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F. Güler Nalbantoğlu, “Development of Preservice Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in the context of Lesson Study,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2023.