Understanding best practice in engineering education using the concept of pedagogical content knowledge
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Paper/Presentation Title | Understanding best practice in engineering education using the concept of pedagogical content knowledge |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Jolly, Hannah (Author), Brodie, Lyn (Author) and Midgley, Warren (Author) |
Editors | Mann, Llewellyn and Daniel, Scott |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AaeE 2012) |
Number of Pages | 9 |
Year | 2012 |
Place of Publication | Melbourne, Australia |
ISBN | 9780987177230 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://www.aaee.com.au/conferences/2012 |
Conference/Event | 23rd Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE 2012) |
Event Details | Rank B B B B B |
Event Details | 23rd Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE 2012) Parent Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE) Event Date 03 to end of 05 Dec 2012 Event Location Melbourne, Australia |
Abstract | The concept of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) is used in educational research to explore the complexities of effective teaching practice. PCK is the 'nowledge-in-action' and 'knowledge-of-action' (Park & Oliver, 2008) which allows teachers to make decisions about what to do in order to teach well. It is a type of expertise that is specific to the discipline in which it is applied, but is distinct from either disciplinary content knowledge, or general knowledge of pedagogy. The nature of PCK is yet to be researched specifically for the engineering discipline. To date, in the disciplines for which PCK constructs have been defined (for example, in History, Science or Literature), there is a close similarity between how the discipline is studied and how it is practiced. In engineering, the study of the discipline and the practice of it are very different, raising questions about how the make-up of engineering PCK accounts for the nature of the discipline, and how it reflects the nature of best practice in engineering teaching. |
Keywords | pedagogical content knowledge (PCK); Bourdieu; Field and Habitus; engineering knowledge; higher education research |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520102. Educational psychology |
390113. Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy | |
390402. Education assessment and evaluation | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Engineering and Surveying |
Engineering Education Research Group | |
Faculty of Education | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q1y67/understanding-best-practice-in-engineering-education-using-the-concept-of-pedagogical-content-knowledge
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