Prepare for Learning: a Manifestation of Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Practice

• Main Authors: Trinidad Mentado Labao, José Luis Medina Moya, Lorena Cruz Garcette
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Navarra 2017-10-01
• Series: Estudios sobre Educación
• Subjects: Conocimiento Didáctico del Contenido; Expectativas de comprensión en el alumnado y Educación Superior
• Online Access: https://www.unav.edu/publicaciones/revistas/index.php/estudios-sobre-educacion/article/view/11565

The following pages include the analysis of those actions and behaviors, carried out by university teachers, that allow students to be aware of what they do not know and need to know, creating inside them the expectative of explanation. For the study, we start from a survey “ad hoc” to 90 senior teachers, 11 new teachers and 301 students from the faculties of physics, pharmacy, dentistry, Philology, Economics and Business Administration, Nursing, Law and the School of Education business of the University of Barcelona. From a study of multiple cases and through various strategies to collect information such as classroom observation, in-depth interviews teachers and interviews with groups of students, analyze the pedagogical content knowledge, trying to understand how it is manifested in teaching. Our research, point out that university teacher transforms their global and holistic content and curriculum knowledge into didactical ways through which they provoke students, what we categorized, “Prepare to learn”.