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• Pre-service teachershave stereotypes towards pupils with autism, Down syndrome and dyslexia.
• Pupils with Down syndrome, autism and dyslexia are associated with distinctive stereotypes.
• These stereotypes can be classified in three resp. four different dimensions.
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Stereotypes about pupils with special educational needs are prevalent both in society and among pre- and in-service teachers. However, little is known about the specific stereotypes pre-service teachers associate with autistic pupils, pupils with Down syndrome, and pupils with dyslexia. We explored these in two studies. Study 1 (N=13) involved qualitative interviews to identify potential stereotype content. Study 2 (N=213) used these findings to create a questionnaire to quantify these stereotypes. We found distinct stereotypes associated with all three groups of pupils. For successful inclusion, teachers must recognize the uniqueness of each pupil, including those with different diagnoses.
Research has suggested that teachers’ beliefs toward culturally diverse classrooms are affected during teacher education. Text reading, as one of the major learning activities in initial teacher education, is supposed to affect teachers’ educational concepts and beliefs. We conducted two experiments to test the impact of reading a positively or negatively oriented persuasive text about diversity on preservice teachers’ belief change. In Study 1 (N = 42), we found that belief change varied significantly as a function of the direction of the text condition, and that the reading of the texts led to a significantly stronger belief change if the text was in alignment with participants’ prior beliefs. Study 2 (N = 57) revealed a middle-sized but non-significant moderator effect for prior knowledge (p = .08, η2p = .06), suggesting that participants with more prior knowledge were less likely to be persuaded by the text. The results provide new insights into factors that may affect the development of preservice teachers’ diversity beliefs.
As knowledge derived from scientific theory can be helpful for teachers to reflect on their everyday teaching, universities have the challenging task of teaching this knowledge in such a way that pre-service teachers are able to apply it to their later teaching. Case-based learning has emerged as a promising method to foster pre-service teachers’ scientific knowledge application throughout university teacher education. However, surprisingly, empirical evidence for its effectiveness as compared to more traditional instructional interventions in teacher education is still inconclusive, partly being due to constraints concerning the employed comparison groups. The present quasi-experimental study (conducted in the field of classroom management) investigated the effect of studying exactly the same theoretical content with and without text-based cases on scientific knowledge application (as measured by a vignette test) in a sample of 101 pre-service teachers. Although the study found a small advantage for the case-based learning group, it demonstrated that scientific knowledge application may also be effectively fostered in a more traditional instructional course. The findings and their implications are discussed against the background of cognitive theories on inert knowledge and how to prevent it in teacher education.
As knowledge derived from scientific theory can be helpful for teachers to reflect on their everyday teaching, universities have the challenging task of teaching this knowledge in such a way that pre-service teachers are able to apply it to their later teaching. Case-based learning has emerged as a promising method to foster pre-service teachers’ scientific knowledge application throughout university teacher education. However, surprisingly, empirical evidence for its effectiveness as compared to more traditional instructional interventions in teacher education is still inconclusive, partly being due to constraints concerning the employed comparison groups. The present quasi-experimental study (conducted in the field of classroom management) investigated the effect of studying exactly the same theoretical content with and without text-based cases on scientific knowledge application (as measured by a vignette test) in a sample of 101 pre-service teachers. Although the study found a small advantage for the case-based learning group, it demonstrated that scientific knowledge application may also be effectively fostered in a more traditional instructional course. The findings and their implications are discussed against the background of cognitive theories on inert knowledge and how to prevent it in teacher education.
In diesem Beitrag wird ein hochschuldidaktisches Konzept zur Förderung des reflektierten Umgangs mit Heterogenität im schulischen Kontext unter Verwendung digitaler Lerneinheiten vorgestellt. Im Projekt "Level – Lehrkräftebildung vernetzt entwickeln" (Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung BMBF, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) wurden in den Bildungswissenschaften digitale Lerneinheiten zu den Heterogenitätsdimensionen "Geschlecht", "kultureller Hintergrund", "sozio-ökonomischer Hintergrund", "kognitiv-motivationale Lernvor-aussetzungen" und "Behinderung" konzipiert und in der universitären Lehre erprobt. Die Auswahl der erstellten Lerneinheiten begründet sich auf Ergebnissen der PISA-Studien sowie der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention. Die Lerneinheiten werden in Blended-Learning-Szenarien eingesetzt und zielen auf den Aufbau von Fachwissen und professionellen Überzeugungen sowie Reflexivität. Auf der Grundlage individuellen Vorwissens werden von den Lernenden (videobasierte) Aufgaben bearbeitet, die der Perspektivübernahme und Selbstreflexion im Hinblick auf Kategorisierungen dienen und die Bearbeitung fachwissenschaftlicher Texte und aktueller Studien beinhalten. Arbeitsergebnisse können digital im Peer-Feedback bearbeitet sowie mit einem digitalen Portfolio verbunden werden. Das Onlineformat ermöglicht die fächer- und phasenübergreifende Nutzung durch Dozierende sowie Ausbilder_innen an Studienseminaren. Zusätzlich zu den fünf Lerneinheiten wurden eine einführende Version für Studierende und eine erweiterte Version für Lehrende erstellt, die einen Einblick in Aufbau und Struktur des Formats gibt und als "pädagogischer Doppeldecker" konzipiert ist. Die formative Evaluation mit Lehramtsstudierenden und Ausbilder_innen ergab positive Ergebnisse hinsichtlich der Einsetzbarkeit der Lerneinheiten in der Lehramtsausbildung.