Teachers’ Transformed Subject Matter Knowledge Structures of the Doppler Effect

Mpho Mosabala

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Mpho Mosabala ¹ ^*

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¹ School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, SOUTH AFRICA^* Corresponding Author

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The pupils’ poor performance in science in South African secondary schools is well documented. Therefore, it is deemed necessary to conduct a study that would portray knowledge structures for teaching a science topic. This is an empirical qualitative interpretive multiple case study looking at four physical science teachers teaching Doppler Effect to Grade 12 pupils. The data was collected through classroom observations and teacher interviews. Data analysis was done using concept maps. The results show that teachers’ knowledge as portrayed during the teaching lack coherence and to some extent the correctness that is expected of teachers. The weaknesses are considered likely to compromise their pupils’ conceptual understanding of the topic.

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concept maps
connectedness
correctness
Pedagogical Content Knowledge
subject matter knowledge

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2018, 2407-2417

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Mosabala, M. (2018). Teachers’ Transformed Subject Matter Knowledge Structures of the Doppler Effect. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 14(6), pp. 2407-2417. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/89842

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Mosabala, Mpho "Teachers’ Transformed Subject Matter Knowledge Structures of the Doppler Effect". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 14, no. 6, 2018, pp. 2407-2417. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/89842