Abstract

CARMO, José Manuel do. Development of an instrument for identification of a constructivist orientation in science teaching. Rev. Port. de Educação [online]. 2016, vol.29, n.2, pp.163-184. ISSN 0871-9187.  https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.6705.

Even if constructivism might be considered the main paradigm in science education, there is, however, a deficient availability in regard to instruments to characterize its presence, either in a small group of teachers in an in-service training course, or in a large sample of teachers giving a view of the methodological orientation of teaching in a region or country. By identifying a set of events that are present in teaching and are common to different methodological orientations, an instrument was developed to elicit teachers' sequence of events in the beginning of a teaching sequence. It allows a teacher trainer, at the beginning of an in-service or initial training course, a fast and prompt assessment of teachers' methodology in practice, making it possible to organize the training course starting from a debate and reflection over participant teacher's methodological conceptions in a constructivist perspective of teacher training.

Keywords : Constructivist teaching; Science teaching; Teaching strategies; Teaching profile.

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