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01 SES 08 A, Symposium: Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning
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Commonly, attempts are made to drive innovations in education through professional development that is delivered in a top-down manner. In Scotland, we have developed a TPD module (PISCES) for supporting teachers in developing more inquiry-based science teaching based upon an alternative concept that we call ‘empowerment through professional learning.’ In this view, teachers are regarded as being best placed to think about and solve pedagogical problems but do find it useful to have conceptual tools that enable them to carry out this analysis. This approach recognises the contextual problems that teachers have to deal with, both within and across national contexts – problems that we think make prescription of pedagogical techniques difficult at best and, perhaps, even undesirable. Through PISCES, teachers in both Scotland and Latvia have developed for themselves, through experiments in their practice, an increased repertoire of pedagogical processes that support inquiry by their students. They have developed Pedagogical Process Knowledge (PPK), a partner to Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK). This paper explores the Scottish and Latvian educational contexts and compares the resulting forms of PPK that participating teachers developed. Issues in adopting the PISCES’ philosophy, materials and methodology across national boundaries are also discussed.
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Programme by Networks, ECER 2021
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Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
Network 7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education
Network 8. Research on Health Education
Network 9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement
Network 10. Teacher Education Research
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Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
Network 13. Philosophy of Education
Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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