Twenty Years Later: Does pedagogical content knowledge remain a useful idea?

By Sandra K. Abell. 2008

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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In Education

1. J. Loughran
2. J. V. van Driel
3. Vanessa Kind
4. Pernilla Nilsson
5. Birgit Jana Neuhaus
6. Melanie Jüttner
7. P. Hudson
8. D. Hanuscin

In Sociology and Political Science

1. J. V. van Driel
2. J. Loughran
3. Vanessa Kind
4. Pernilla Nilsson
5. Melanie Jüttner
6. P. Hudson
7. D. Hanuscin
8. Birgit Jana Neuhaus

Citations in the corpus

• DEVELOPMENT, EVALUATION, AND VALIDATION OF A PAPER-AND-PENCIL TEST FOR MEASURING TWO COMPONENTS OF BIOLOGY TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING THE “CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM” (2013, background): “Attempting to clarify the matter, a series of literature reviews in the late 1990s organized and summarized various PCK conceptualizations (e.g. van Driel, Verloop & de Vos, 1998; Abell, 2008; Gess-Newsome, 1999; Kind, 2009; Lee & Luft, 2008).”
• Critical Incidents in the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching the Nature of Science: A Prospective Elementary Teacher’s Journey (2013, background): “Additionally, ‘‘studies of PCK that examine teacher knowledge at critical junctures in a teacher’s career are lacking’’ (Abell 2008, p. 1411).”
• Pedagogy: Making Sense of the Complex Relationship Between Teaching and Learning (2013, background): “As a case in point, Abell (2008) described her frustration with the situation when she noted that [i]n my recent review of science teacher knowledge research (Abell, 2007), I deplored the inconsistent and oftentimes vague application of the PCK construct in science education research, and…”
• Strategies for mentoring pedagogical knowledge (2013, background): “Content knowledge is central to PCK as it is based on “topicspecific knowledge for teaching a particular subject” (Abell, 2008, p. 1413).”
• Pedagogical content knowledge in science education: perspectives and potential for progress (2009, background): “The review by Abell (2007) and Gess-Newsome and Lederman‘s (1999) text also provided starting points.”
• Exploring the Development of Pre-Service Science Elementary Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge (2012, background): “Abell (2008) emphasized PCK as being more than the sum of its different components while Bishop and Denley (2007) highlighted it as a sophisticated process of combining knowledge bases together for particular contexts in relation to classes, topics or other factors.”