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Volume 9 Issue 2 (2014)
Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Experience in a Community of Practice through a Place-Based Inquiry
Kristin Cook & Gayle Buck
pp. 111-132 | Article Number: ijese.2014.007
Published Online: April 10, 2014
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Your Bibliography: Cook, K. & Buck, G. (2014). Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Experience in a Community of Practice through a Place-Based Inquiry . International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 9(2), 111-132.
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Your Bibliography: Cook, K. and Buck, G. (2014). Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Experience in a Community of Practice through a Place-Based Inquiry . International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 9(2), pp. 111-132.
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Your Bibliography: Cook, Kristin and Gayle Buck (2014). "Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Experience in a Community of Practice through a Place-Based Inquiry ". International Journal of Environmental and Science Education 9 (2):111-132.
Abstract
With this case study, we explored efforts to connect pre-service elementary teachers (PSTs) and campus scientists through place-based inquiry instruction. Using the framework of Community of Practice (CoP), the research question guiding this study was: what features of our place-based inquiry course intervention (involving PSTs and scientists) afforded or constrained the extent to which our students moved toward a fuller involvement in the CoP? The results indicated the PSTs were able to participate in a CoP engaged in authentic scientific inquiry and were able to move through levels of legitimate peripheral participation in varying degrees while maintaining their identities as future elementary teachers. Additionally, place-based inquiry was an effective means of including PSTs in the CoP by enabling them to provide a unique knowledge set to partnering scientists and to build arguments based on authentic local inquiry.
Keywords: community of practice, socio-scientific issues, pre-service teachers, college teaching
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