Teaching outdoor and adventure activities: an investigation of a primary school physical education professional development p
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106 Coding categories Pedagogical content knowledge, content knowledge, affirmation, instant feedback, planning and preparation Memo The teacher is looking for affirmation – it’s the not knowing that’s crucial I think to the teacher. Even if the teacher reads the notes/lesson plans and thinks they understand it - how do they know if what they are doing is right? - They have no concept of the content knowledge nor of the pedagogical content knowledge. Stage 5 Proposition statements. Proposition statements related to each of the themes developed during the analysis of the data were generated. Propositional statements are statements developed from the data – this is what the data are telling us (Appendix Kiv). According to Bogdan and Taylor (1984) ‘a propositional statement is a general statement of fact grounded in the data’ and as such, propositions are the beginning of revelations yielded by the data. An example of a propositional statement developed from the data in this study was; ‘Teachers are afraid to teach physical education’. Stage 6 Test proposition statements. The proposition statements/constructed theory were then tested against the data. This ensured that all coding stood and that findings were reliable and robust. At this stage credibility was checked and if necessary going back to Stage 2 and recoding data, or ways of demonstrating validity and reliability were established. When the above propositional statement was tested against the data, it was noted that the word fear only appeared once, in relation to a teacher who was afraid she would not teach the skills of a game properly. Although the impression was that teachers were afraid, there was no concrete support for this statement in the data, therefore this statement was discarded and the same process was applied to further propositional statements. Stage 7 Amending and synthesising proposition statements. The proposition statements were synthesised into cohesive and well supported outcome statements or findings, showing richness and context and outlining points to be made in the conclusion. Taking the example statement at stage 5, the statement was amended to read; ‘teachers lack the knowledge and confidence to teach physical education’ and this statement was then tested against the data and support was found for the statement. Patterns were also sought across all of the participant data and were examined for 107 similarities and differences. All these categories were ultimately combined into themes which framed the construction of chapters four and six. Yüklə 2,3 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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