SOME TRENDS IN SCIENCE TEACHER TRAINING: THE EXPERIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2007, Vol 1, Issue 8

Abstract

The paper looks at key trends in the concept of the science teacher training in two different institutions: Furman University in US and Palacky University Olomouc in the Czech Republic. It focuses on the description of study programs at these institutions and comparison of the approaches to the science teacher training. There are two basic concepts used to identify the essence of the professionalism of the science teacher: the scientific knowledge and professional competence of the science teacher.

Authors and Affiliations

Danuše Nezvalová, Michael Svec

Keywords

Related Articles

THE INFLUENCE OF FREE PRIMARY EDUCATION ON KENYA CERTIFICATE OF PRIMARY EDUCATION PERFORMANCE IN KENYA

The origin of Free Primary Education (FPE) can be traced back to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights where basic education was recognized as a human right. The current FPE programme was launched in 2003 and it led to...

HOW TO ELIMINATE THE GAP BETWEEN THE WORLD OF ACADEMICIANS AND TEACHERS?

I would like to thank the editor for the space to share my ideas about the selected problems of education. One of them is relative independence of college world and the world of elementary and high schools. There are in...

VISUALISATION-ASSISTED TEACHING: CAN VIRTUAL GIVE RISE TO REAL KNOWLEDGE?

There are two main different ways of reasoning (Harnad, 1987). For most people it’s natural to do their reasoning on the semantic level. Graphic tools have always played an important part in this reasoning style. When us...

RURAL TOURISM AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO UPBRINGING PATRIOTIC ATTITUDE TOWARDS MOTHERLAND IN STUDENTS

Many students do not hide their desire to leave the country to study or work. There is a sufficient outflow of perspective human resources abroad, from villages to bigger cities. Present times offer many perspectives to...

SOME VIEWPOINTS OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS ABOUT INTERCULTURALITY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

The concept of interculturality in foreign language teaching in Albania has been introduced in the last five years and as a result a lot has been written about it. Doing a discourse analysis of university researchers a...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP34452
  • DOI -
  • Views 559
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

Danuše Nezvalová, Michael Svec (2007). SOME TRENDS IN SCIENCE TEACHER TRAINING: THE EXPERIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC. Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 1(8), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-34452