THE RAINBOW IN THE THINKING OF PROSPECTIVE KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS

Kleopatra Paskou, George Kaliampos, Konstantinos Ravanis

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In the current study, the representations of kindergarten prospective teachers on the rainbow formation phenomenon as well as their interest in implementing rainbow-related activities in their teaching were explored. This study is part of a research perspective that aims to document the difficulties of Early Childhood Education teachers in Physical and Biological Sciences. Rainbow topic was chosen as on the one hand it is often included in curricula along with various other visual phenomena and on the other hand, there is no related research that focuses on teachers’ views about this phenomenon. The research was qualitative and exploratory in nature and was conducted through a semi-structured interview. From data analysis it was found that the kindergarten prospective teachers of the sample have structured mental representations about rainbow which are far from school scientific knowledge. At the same time, they consider the rainbow to be an interesting topic for developing teaching activities in the classroom.

 

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early childhood science education, mental representations, beliefs, kindergarten prospective teachers, rainbow

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v9i3.4196

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