| Issue |
SHS Web Conf.
Volume 37, 2017
ERPA International Congresses on Education 2017 (ERPA 2017)
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| Article Number | 01014 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20173701014 | |
| Published online | 14 August 2017 | |
The design of free activities for teaching science: A study with preservice teachers
Departmet of Didactics of Experimental and Social Sciences, Faculty of Education Sciences, Seville University, C/ Pirotecnia s/n, 41013, Seville, Spain
a Corresponding author: mpuig@us.es
This paper studies a science teaching problem related to students in the Bachelor of Preschool Education at the Seville University, Spain. Preservice teachers face difficulties when designing child-guided activities (also called, free activities). This type of tasks is desirable in preschool classrooms, because they promote creativity, observation capacity, inquiry and children autonomy. With the aim of improving the formation in the Bachelor, two university teachers have asked 136 preservice teachers of the third course to design a ‘children´s corner in their future classroom’ about a specific issue related to the science area in preschool education, according to the Spanish legislation. It is shown the headings of the students´ report as a result of their work. It has been analyzed the quality of the child-guided designed activities. It has been observed the need of improving the explicit instruction about the design of free activities for the first educational level.
Key words: child-guided activities / preschool education / preservice teachers
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