The design of free activities for teaching science: A study with preservice teachers

This paper studies a science teaching problem related to students in the Bachelor of Preschool Education at the Seville University, Spain. Preservice teachers face difficulties when designing child-guided activities (also called, free activities). This type of tasks is desirable in preschool classro...

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Published inSHS Web of Conferences Vol. 37; p. 1014
Main Authors Puig-Gutiérrez, María, Cruz-Guzmán Alcalá, Marta
Format Journal Article Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Les Ulis EDP Sciences 2017
Subjects
child-guided activities
Preschool education
preservice teachers
Science education
Teaching
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Summary:This paper studies a science teaching problem related to students in the Bachelor of Preschool Education at the Seville University, Spain. Preservice teachers face difficulties when designing child-guided activities (also called, free activities). This type of tasks is desirable in preschool classrooms, because they promote creativity, observation capacity, inquiry and children autonomy. With the aim of improving the formation in the Bachelor, two university teachers have asked 136 preservice teachers of the third course to design a ‘children´s corner in their future classroom’ about a specific issue related to the science area in preschool education, according to the Spanish legislation. It is shown the headings of the students´ report as a result of their work. It has been analyzed the quality of the child-guided designed activities. It has been observed the need of improving the explicit instruction about the design of free activities for the first educational level.
ISSN:2261-2424
2416-5182
2261-2424
DOI:10.1051/shsconf/20173701014