Page 20 - Empowering pre-service teachers through inquiry - Lidewij van Katwijk

Chapter 1
The following four research questions guide this thesis:
1. What is the purpose and value of pre-service teacher inquiry in primary teacher education (in intended, implemented and attained curriculum)?
2. How is the development of pre-service teacher inquiry competences implemented in teacher education programmes?
3. What are the most important perceived and actual learning outcomes from pre-service teacher inquiry?
4. What are the relationships among pre-service teacher’s perceptions, quality of pre-service teacher inquiry and teaching quality?
Chapters 2–5 address these four questions (see Figure 1.1).
Figure 1.1 Overview of this dissertation
Purpose and value
of
pre-service teacher inquiry
Inquiry competences
• Research knowledge
• Research skills
• Application of
previous findings
• Inquiry habit of
mind
Intended curriculum:
• Ideal
Chapter 2
RQ. 1
• Formal/written
RQ. 2
Implemented curriculum
Chapter 3 + 4
Chapter 5
Teaching quality RQ. 4 Inquiry quality
Attained curriculum:
• Experiential RQ. 3 • Learned
18