Pre-service Teachers’ Views of Inquiry
Teaching and Their Responses to Teacher
Educators’ Feedback on Teaching Practice

Hye-Gyoung Yoon; Mijung Kim; Byoung Sug Kim; Yong Jae Joung; Young Shin Park

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2013.944a

Pre-service Teachers’ Views of Inquiry Teaching and Their Responses to Teacher Educators’ Feedback on Teaching Practice

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Hye-Gyoung Yoon ¹ ^* , Mijung Kim ², Byoung Sug Kim ³, Yong Jae Joung ⁴, Young Shin Park ⁵

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¹ Chuncheon National University of Education, SOUTH KOREA² University of Victoria, CANADA³ Roosevelt University, USA⁴ Gongju National University of Education, SOUTH KOREA⁵ Chosun University, SOUTH KOREA^* Corresponding Author

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This study attempted to explore 15 Korean elementary pre-service teachers’ views of inquiry teaching. During a science teaching methods course, pre-service teachers implemented a peer teaching lesson, had a group discussion to reflect on five teacher educators’ comments on their first peer teaching practice, and revised and re-taught the lesson as a second peer teaching practice. The results indicate that pre-service teachers changed their views of inquiry teaching from following the process of inquiry or a completely unstructured discovery approach to facilitating students’ inquiry learning with instructional guidance. The importance of reflective group discussion and re-teaching a lesson is discussed.

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pre-service teachers
reflective discussion
inquiry teaching
peer teaching
teacher
educator’s feedback

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 9, Issue 4, 2013, 347-359

https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.944a

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Yoon, H.-G., Kim, M., Kim, B. S., Joung, Y. J., & Park, Y. S. (2013). Pre-service Teachers’ Views of Inquiry Teaching and Their Responses to Teacher Educators’ Feedback on Teaching Practice. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 9(4), 347-359. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.944a

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Yoon HG, Kim M, Kim BS, Joung YJ, Park YS. Pre-service Teachers’ Views of Inquiry Teaching and Their Responses to Teacher Educators’ Feedback on Teaching Practice. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2013;9(4):347-59. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.944a

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Yoon HG, Kim M, Kim BS, Joung YJ, Park YS. Pre-service Teachers’ Views of Inquiry Teaching and Their Responses to Teacher Educators’ Feedback on Teaching Practice. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2013;9(4), 347-359. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.944a

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Yoon, Hye-Gyoung, Mijung Kim, Byoung Sug Kim, Yong Jae Joung, and Young Shin Park. "Pre-service Teachers’ Views of Inquiry Teaching and Their Responses to Teacher Educators’ Feedback on Teaching Practice". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2013 9 no. 4 (2013): 347-359. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.944a

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Yoon, H.-G., Kim, M., Kim, B. S., Joung, Y. J., and Park, Y. S. (2013). Pre-service Teachers’ Views of Inquiry Teaching and Their Responses to Teacher Educators’ Feedback on Teaching Practice. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 9(4), pp. 347-359. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.944a

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Yoon, Hye-Gyoung et al. "Pre-service Teachers’ Views of Inquiry Teaching and Their Responses to Teacher Educators’ Feedback on Teaching Practice". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 9, no. 4, 2013, pp. 347-359. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2013.944a