Learning to teach history in New Zealand secondary schools: Preservice teachers reflect on their practice

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The primary focus of the study reported in this article was to trial the effectiveness of cases as a teacher- education tool with a class of preservice history teachers completing a one-year graduate diploma in secondary teaching. The collaborative critical analyses of cases, in a learning community of peers, enabled the teachers to develop their pedagogical content knowledge for history teaching, and helped them to make connections between their teacher-education programme and teaching practice in schools. The methodology engendered enthusiasm and motivation for linking educational principles and understandings from current history education research to their teaching. The article argues that teaching with cases also provides opportunities for overcoming criticisms that teacher education is too theoretical, uninteresting and removed from classroom experience.

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Kunowski, M. (2009). Learning to teach history in New Zealand secondary schools: Preservice teachers reflect on their practice. Curriculum Matters, 5, 25–41. https://doi.org/10.18296/cm.0109
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