THEANO: Investigating the Integration of Art in Teacher Education in Science

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Published: Apr 1, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/codiste.7759
Keywords:
art in science education interdisciplinarity teacher education
Argyris Nipyrakis
University of Crete
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6075-1784
Dimitris Stavrou
University of Crete
Abstract

Integrating Art into teaching and learning science is an approach that has the potential to bring several learning benefits, but also to make good use of students’ cultural assets. The present postdoctoral study aims in exploring pre-service teachers’ views and practices in integrating two forms of Art: creative writing and theatre. The implementation of the empirical study will take place in the context of an undergraduate academic science education course for the pre-service teachers, where participants will experimentise with writing stories and dramatisations. Qualitative analysis of teachers’ interviews and questionnaires, as well as multimodal analysis of teachers’ artefacts aims to reveal insights for the design of STEAM pre-service teacher education programmes. 

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