The effectiveness of history teacher education concerning the development of lesson planning knowledge: an example from Germany. Issue 1 (31st August 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wolf, Jörgen; Rothland, Martin; Brauch, Nicola
• Is Part Of: History education research journal. Volume 19:Issue 1(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-08-31
• Subjects: lesson planning -- teacher knowledge -- professional knowledge -- pedagogical content knowledge -- teacher competences -- teacher education -- teacher training -- prospective history teachers; History -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; History -- Research -- Periodicals; 907
• DOI: 10.14324/HERJ.19.1.08
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2631-9713

Abstract

Abstract : Previous studies from German-speaking areas of Europe could not prove any substantial development in the competences and the pedagogical content knowledge of prospective history teachers during teacher training, and thus could not empirically confirm the effectiveness of teacher education. We report on the theoretical framework and the results of a new study on the development of knowledge of lesson planning. In the present study, the development of this kind of knowledge could be confirmed by different test instruments. We found significant differences in the level of knowledge between various cohorts of prospective history teachers (n = 282), but some deficits in history teacher training can also be identified.