Graduate and Undergraduate Students' Teaching Practices in a Place-Based Outreach Program
- Degree Grantor:
- University of California, Santa Barbara. Education
- Degree Supervisor:
- Danielle B. Harlow
- Place of Publication:
- [Santa Barbara, Calif.]
- Publisher:
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Creation Date:
- 2013
- Issued Date:
- 2013
- Topics:
- Education, Sciences and Education, Teacher Training
- Keywords:
- Undergraduate and graduate students,
Science outreach programs, and
Place-based education - Genres:
- Online resources and Dissertations, Academic
- Dissertation:
- Ph.D.--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013
- Description:
This study explores how university students (i.e., undergraduate and graduate students) participating in a place-based outreach program practiced teaching strategies on four field trips. The outreach program, Learning in Place-Based Environments (LPBE), provided opportunities for the university students to teach fifth grade students about place, including through focusing on the natural attributes of a place, promoting sustainable living in a place, and integrating the diverse meanings that a place holds (see Semken, 2005). This research is informed by the literature on science teacher effectiveness, science outreach programs that provide teaching opportunities, learning to teach through apprenticeship, and place-based education. The intended and enacted curricula of the LPBE program were studied. The field trip station lesson plans were reviewed for evidence of place-based teaching strategies. Videotapes of the university students teaching fifth grade students in different outdoor locations were analyzed according to the types of teaching strategies that they practiced. In addition, the frequency and co-occurrence of various teaching strategies were examined. Overall, the university students practiced relatively few place-based teaching strategies. Also, challenges that the university students faced while teaching fifth grade students on the field trips are outlined. This study has implications for developing training opportunities for educators to learn about how to incorporate place into their educational programs.
Keywords: place-based education, science outreach programs, undergraduate and graduate students.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 pages)
- Format:
- Text
- Collection(s):
- UCSB electronic theses and dissertations
- Other Versions:
- http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3602176
- ARK:
- ark:/48907/f3h70cxh
- ISBN:
- 9781303539978
- Catalog System Number:
- 990040925060203776
- Copyright:
- Katherine Nilsen, 2013
- Rights:
- In Copyright
- Copyright Holder:
- Katherine Nilsen
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