Teacher enthusiasm in a science course for preservice elementary teachers: manifestations, impacts, and influences

Title: Teacher enthusiasm in a science course for preservice elementary teachers: manifestations, impacts, and influences
Creator: Palmer, David; Dixon, Jeanette; Archer, Jennifer
Relation: Pedagogies: an International Journal Vol. 14, Issue 4, p. 280-296
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2019.1671846
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2019
Description: Enthusiasm is a quality of efficient teachers, but teacher enthusiasm can be influenced by the way students respond. Teacher enthusiasm might therefore be difficult to maintain in compulsory courses, in which students sometimes have negative dispositions towards the content. This study focused on a science course in an elementary teacher education degree in Australia. Data were collected during and after the course, by open-ended questionnaire (569 responses) and interview (25 students and one teacher). It was concluded that teacher enthusiasm can still be maintained at an effectual level even when students are not necessarily positively predisposed to the subject.
Subject: enthusiasm; elementary; teacher; science
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1444008
Identifier: uon:42172
Identifier: ISSN:1554-480X
Language: eng
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