How Pre-service Teachers Observe Teaching on Video: Effects of Viewers’ Teaching Subjects and the Subject of the Video

Source: This article was published in Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume 27, Issue 7,
Author(s): Geraldine Blomberg, Kathleen Stürmer, and Tina Seidel, "How Pre-service Teachers Observe Teaching on Video: Effects of Viewers’ Teaching Subjects and the Subject of the Video", Pages 1131–1140, Copyright Elsevier (October 2011).

In this study, the authors studied subject matter impact for professional vision (pv) in pre-service teachers.

The authors systematically investigated pre-service teachers’ professional vision as elicited by videos of various subjects.
Such a design allows studying the relevance of subject matter for professional vision.

The authors compared between professional vision of 32 math/science majors' and 56 social science/humanities majors.

The authors found evidence for different professional visions among pre-service teachers majoring in different fields; social sciences/humanities majors showed higher professional vision.

The authors conclude that subject-specific socializations may result in distinct sets of shared beliefs and values.