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EXPLORING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS OF DUTCH STEM PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Contributed talk › Scientific

Description

To be able to develop the critical thinking (CT) skills of future engineers and scientists, teachers should be competent in these skills and in teaching them. Therefore, in teacher education programmes, when preparing a learning environment for implementing design challenges and products, developing pre-service teachers’ CT skills need more attention. The aim of this research was to explore the CT skills of Dutch STEM pre-service teachers while they design for a design challenge from a secondary education context. We explored the development of CT skills in each design dimension. CT is not explicit in the design course, but they are embedded in the design process. Hence, we can conclude that the course and the template of the design reports supported PSTs in developing CT skills.
Period29 Aug 2023
Event titleESERA 2023
Event typeConference
LocationNevsehir, TurkeyShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • critical thinking
  • STEM education
  • pre-service teachers
  • teacher education
  • design-based pedagogy