Open AccessThe influence of high school teachers on the representations of the role of an “exemplary teacher” according to future physics teachers
Author(s) -
Roberto Nardi,
Jéssica dos Reis Belíssimo,
Fabiano Willian Parma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1929/1/012083
Subject(s) - mathematics education , school teachers , teacher education , psychology , pedagogy
We highlight here part of a longitudinal study, which sought to follow a group of future physics teachers and explain how research has been introduced in or affected their initial training. We seek to analyse their representations of the role of an ‘exemplary teacher’, considering that some of the graduates affirmed to have chosen a career as a teacher because of the influence of their high school teachers. The data were collected through questionnaires administered at the beginning of the study to students enrolled in the teacher education programme and treated by Discourse Analysis. We compare students’ representations with five dimensions that characterize an “exemplary teacher”. The results show that the characteristics of their high school teachers appear in the discourse of the students when they refer to an “exemplary teacher”.