The development of preservice elementary teachers' curricular role identity for science teaching

Curriculum materials are a crucial tool with which teachers engage in teach- ing practice. For preservice teachers to learn to use science curriculum materials in produc- tive ways, they must develop a conception of themselves as elementary teachers in which the use of science curriculum materials is a valued dimension of science-teaching practice. We define those dimensions of teachers' professional role identities concerned with the use of curriculum materials as curricular role identity. This mixed-methods study examines preservice elementary teachers' development of curricular role identity for science teach- ing through their use of science curriculum materials. Forty-seven preservice elementary teachers in two sections of an elementary science methods course were studied over the courseofonesemester.Datasourcesincludesurveyresultsfrompreserviceteachers inboth

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