Abstract:

This study aims to determine pedagogical content knowledge of prospective philosophy group teachers about science philosophy unit. The study was carried out with the participation of the 12 prospective philosophy group teachers in 2009–2010 spring semester. In the study; concept maps and semi-structured interview forms were used as data collection device. Pedagogical content knowledge of prospective philosophy group teachers was analyzed in accordance with components of curriculum knowledge, content knowledge, teaching knowledge and measurement-evaluation knowledge. According to data gathered, it was defined that, the curriculum and content knowledge of the prospective teachers were inadequate and they use traditional approaches as a teaching method in addition to suggesting various methods and strategies in order to provide efficient teaching.

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