Prospective primary school teachers' confidence in teaching disciplinary history

Jukka Rantala; Amna Khawaja

doi:10.1016/j.tate.2021.103492

Prospective primary school teachers' confidence in teaching disciplinary history

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This study explores how confident prospective teachers felt themselves to teach disciplinary history after a course which focused particularly on teaching historical thinking. The data consist of a survey and two essays by 121 respondents, in-depth interviews with 20 students, and follow-up interviews with eight students. The majority of the participants accepted a disciplinary approach as the basis of their future work. However, almost half of the participants felt uncertainty about their preparedness to teach disciplinary history. The article introduces four approaches that draw on the students' attitudes towards disciplinary history instruction.

Original language	English
Article number	103492
Journal	Teaching and Teacher Education
Volume	107
Number of pages	11
ISSN	0742-051X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2021.103492
Publication status	Published - Nov 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Fields of Science

Disciplinary history
Historical thinking
Student teachers
Primary education
Preservice teacher education
516 Educational sciences

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HisLit: Engaging in disciplinary thinking: historical literacy practices in Finnish general upper secondary schools
Rantala, J., Ouakrim-Soivio, N., van den Berg, M., Manninen, M., Khawaja, A. & Puustinen, M.
01/09/2016 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research project

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