Pertti Kansanen

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• Pertti Kansanen
• Professor of Education
• University of Helsinki
• Department of Teacher Education

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Teachers Pedagogical Thinking

• Making educational decisions
• Pedagogical context
• Curriculum
• Purposes, aims and goals, objectives
• Instructional process

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Instructional Process

• Teacher Students
• Teaching Studying Learning
• Interaction gt Pedagogical interaction
• Preinteraction Interaction Postinteraction
• Direct Indirect interaction
• Symmetrical Asymmertical interaction

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Purposiveness

• Curricular context
• Aims and goals of the curriculum
• Knowledge of the aims and goals
• Acceptance of the aims and goals
• Acting according to the aims and goals
• Internalizing the curriculum

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Making Educational Decisions

• Choosing between alternatives
• Unconscious Conscious
• Planning Interaction Evaluation
• Reflection-in-action (Schön)
• Reflection-on-action

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Reasons for Justifying

• INTUITIVE
• Experiences
• Colleagues
• Traditions
• Feelings

• RATIONAL
• Principles
• Textbooks
• Research results
• Experiments

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How To Get To Know

• Making questions
• Questionnaires
• Diaries and portfolios
• Essay writings
• Recipies
• Discussions

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STUDY EXAMPLE (Hulkkonen 1996) I

• Decisions of aims and goals of teaching
• Student teachers Final practice period
• First phase 24 pedagogical diaries
• Second phase Interviews (5 males 5 females)

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STUDY EXAMPLE (Hulkkonen 1996) II

• Thought units in diaries
• preinteractive phase 350
• interactive phase 1
• postinteractive phase 66

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STUDY EXAMPLE (Hulkkonen 1996) III

• Thought units in interviews
• - action level 115
• - object theory level 33 (5/10)
• - metatheory level 7 (2/10)
• Arguments
• - taxonomies (Bloom et al. 1956 Krathwohl et
  al. 1964)
• - curriculum
• - own models, supervision, textbook

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STUDY EXAMPLE (Tielinen 1998)

• Problematic situations in teaching
• Interviews 7 qualified and 7 unqualified t.
• Action and decisions Values
• action level 5/7 5/7 2/7 6/7
• object th.l. 2/7 2/7 4/7 1/7
• metath.l. - - 1/7 -

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STUDY EXAMPLE (Lehtomäki 1999)

• Planning diaries for ten days
• 15 teachers 12 female 3 male
• Action level 4/15 (1 4 years)
• Object theory l. 7/15 (7 25 years)
• Metatheory l. 4/15 (16 30 years)

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STUDY EXAMPLE (Toom 2000)

• Same teachers as in Lehtomäkis study
• Essay writing on personal educational goals and
  educational consciousness
• Action level 8/15
• Object theory l. 5/15
• Metatheory l. 2/15
• In the same category in both studies
• 4/3/2

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TEACHER - STUDENT INTERACTION
High level of teachers purposiveness
ORDINARY
PURPOSIVE
Low level of teachers purposiveness
QUASI-TELEOLOGICAL
INTEREST - BASED
Low level of students purposiveness
High level of students purposiveness
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OPETUS opettaja oppi / opettaa /
opiskella / opetella / oppia oppilas opiskelija
oppija