General Pedagogical Knowledge of Future Middle School Teachers

On the Complex Ecology of Teacher Education in the United States, Germany, and Taiwan

Bibliographic Data

ID4306359
AuthorsJohannes König (0000-0003-3374-9408, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany,, corresponding author), Sigrid Blömeke (0000-0001-6068-4932, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany), Lynn Paine (0000-0002-0146-6924, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA), William H Schmidt (0000-0002-7933-5457, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA), Feng-Jui Hsieh (0000-0002-4476-6660, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan)
Year2011
Volume62
Issue2
Pages188-201
Publication date2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Teacher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4871 • E-ISSN: 1552-7816
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022487110388664
OpenAlexW1988531176
LanguageEN
Citations received43
References cited34

For more than two decades, three components of teacher knowledge have been discussed, namely, content knowledge (CK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and general pedagogical knowledge (GPK). Although there is a growing body of analytic clarification and empirical testing with regard to CK and PCK, especially with a focus on mathematics teachers, hardly any attempt has been made to learn more about teachers' GPK. In the context of the Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics (TEDS-M), Germany, Taiwan, and the United States worked on closing this research gap by conceptualizing a theoretical framework and developing a standardized test of GPK, which was taken by representative samples of future middle school teachers in these countries. Four task-based subdimensions of GPK and three cognitive subdimensions of GPK were distinguished in this test. TEDS-M data are used (a) to test the hypothesis that GPK is not homogenous but multidimensional and (b) to compare the achievement of U.S. future middle school teachers with future middle school teachers from Germany and Taiwan. The data revealed that U.S. future teachers were outperformed by both the other groups. They showed a relative strength in one of the cognitive subdimensions, generating strategies to perform in the classroom, indicating that in particular they had acquired procedural GPK during teacher education

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