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    The impact of Situated Learning for prospective primary teacher education and for the school

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    The apprenticeship and the in-context experience of the pre-service teacher play an essential role in the construction of a professional attitude. The model developed with over 20 years of research during the Physics Education Course (PEC) in the 5 years long Master degree for Prospective Primary Teachers (PPT) at the University of Udine includes situated learning. By means of a process of reflective design and planning of educational paths, the prospective primary teachers implement Teaching Intervention Modules (TIMs) in the classroom and monitor the learning process of children. The preparation, implementation and evaluation of the TIM in real classrooms is carried out within the PEC itself and has produced an institutional interaction between the PEC coordinators and the schools. The perception of 360 in-service teachers on the quality of the implementation of the TIM was collected over three years using a questionnaire probing different perspectives. The opinions collected included those about the role and way of working of the prospective primary teacher, those about the research-based innovation of the path proposals, those about the impact in the specific classroom, those about the teaching style of the host teachers and finally those about the cooperation between schools and university

    A transversal educational proposal for prospective primary teachers: The theme of Time

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    Time is a transversal topic that plays a fundamental role in our every-day experience and represents a natural conceptual bridge between common sense ideas and scientific knowledge. Two classes of Prospective Primary Teachers (PPTs) at the Universities of Udine and Verona were introduced to the theme of Time in a formative intervention organized into a) the discussion of various educational and multidisciplinary approaches aimed to deal with different aspects of Time and b) the exploration/experimentation of various instruments for time measurement. In this work, we study and compare the learning outcomes in terms of planning and implementation of educational projects built by PPTs following two different Rubrics

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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