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RESEARCH PAPER
Teaching practice: Experiences of pre-service physics teachers
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Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, SOUTH AFRICA
Online publication date: 2023-04-30
Publication date: 2023-06-01
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2023;19(6):em2281
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
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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