Teaching practice: Experiences of pre-service physics teachers

Abiodun Adekunle Bada; Loyiso C. Jita

doi:10.29333/ejmste/13233

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Abiodun Adekunle Bada ¹ ^* , Loyiso C. Jita ¹

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¹ Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, SOUTH AFRICA^* Corresponding Author

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The experience pre-service teachers take to the teaching profession go a long way to determine their success level. This experience is usually learnt consciously or unconsciously, developed, and improved during their professional teacher training program. This paper adopts the concurrent mixed methods research approach to investigate the experiences of pre-service physics teachers after completing 2019/2020 teaching practice exercise. The investigation involved 84 final year college of education students in Nigeria. A semi structured questionnaire, which allows the collection of quantitative and qualitative strands of data simultaneously was used. Dewey’s (1963) theory of experience was adopted to unpack the experiences of pre-service teachers. Findings from this study revealed that secondary schools have qualified physics teachers who have good mastery of the subject matter. This study concludes that experience pre-service teachers have during teaching practice exercise has capacity to determine how far they would go in profession.

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experience
physics
pre-service teachers
secondary school
teaching practice

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2023, Volume 19, Issue 6, Article No: em2281

https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/13233

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Bada, Abiodun Adekunle, and Loyiso C. Jita. "Teaching practice: Experiences of pre-service physics teachers". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2023 19 no. 6 (2023): em2281. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/13233

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Bada, A. A., and Jita, L. C. (2023). Teaching practice: Experiences of pre-service physics teachers. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 19(6), em2281. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/13233

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Bada, Abiodun Adekunle et al. "Teaching practice: Experiences of pre-service physics teachers". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 19, no. 6, 2023, em2281. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/13233