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Pedagogical Knowledge in Teacher Education

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When defining pedagogical knowledge as teacher professional knowledge that is valid across different school subjects (such as mathematics, science, or languages), the term “general pedagogical knowledge” (GPK) is used in order to demarcate it from “pedagogical content knowledge” (PCK), i.e., subject-specific pedagogical knowledge that is valid for a certain subject only (Shulman 1987). In the present entry, we use “pedagogical knowledge” as a synonym for “general pedagogical knowledge.” For further terms that refer to GPK and that are used in the literature (e.g., pedagogical-psychological knowledge) see, for more details, the international review of studies conducted for the OECD by König (2014).

Introduction

Imagine a classroom situation in which a student is required to apply a grammar rule that he has just learned. In order to apply the rule correctly, the student needs the teacher to help him by reminding him what to do. Regarding the teacher in this situation, the...

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  1. University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Johannes König

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  1. WMIER, The University of Waikato WMIER, Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand

    Michael A. Peters

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  1. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

    Jukka Husu

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König, J. (2019). Pedagogical Knowledge in Teacher Education. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Teacher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1179-6_174-1

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