Improving Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) through a blended model of PCK and action learning

ABSTRACT

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) is a combination of different forms of teaching knowledge necessary to provide students with a meaningful learning experience. This article aims to improve teachers’ PCK by incorporating it into an action learning approach. The authors designed the Blended Model of Reflective PCK (BMRP) to enable teachers to be aware of mistakes, learn from experience, and reflect. An instrument based on this model was also created to facilitate model implementation. Using this model as treatment, empirical data from an experimental study were acquired. This study involved 40 high school teachers from two different boarding schools. Data were obtained using pre-test and post-test. Teachers’ answers were scored using a rubric and then analysed using ANCOVA. The study shows that the BMRP could significantly improve teachers’ PCK.

KEYWORDS:

• Pedagogical Content Knowledge
• action learning
• teachers
• mistake
• reflect

Disclosure Statement

The authors declare that they have no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper.

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Zulfikar Alimuddin

Zulfikar Alimuddin, with a Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering, has developed his passion for people and organizations. He then further refined and reinforced his passion by taking a doctoral degree with a focus on action learning and knowledge creation, focusing on the development of teaching concepts, methods, and techniques. His interest in teaching is mainly due to his finding in the issues of teaching methods among teachers and their struggle to learn new skills to provide more effective teaching programs for their students.

Jann Hidajat Tjakraatmadja

Prof. Dr. Ir. Jann Hidajat Tjakraatmadja MSIE pursued his postgraduate studies by doing a Master of Industrial Engineering degree at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (1981) and subsequently he earned his doctoral degree in Knowledge Management (2001) from the Faculty of Industrial Technology-Institut Teknologi Bandung-Indonesia. Jann was one of the founders of School of Business and Management (SBM)-ITB since 2003 and has held the post of Director of MBA program (2003–2005). He also has been proactive in the professional academic community, and has been appointed President of Knowledge Management Society Indonesia (KMSI) since 2007. Currently, Jann is a Head of People Management and Entrepreneurship in SBM-ITB, covering knowledge management, change management, and human capital management experts.

Achmad Ghazali

Achmad Ghazali joined the School of Business and Management, Institut Teknologi Bandung (SBM ITB) in 2005. As an Assistant Professor in the field of People and Knowledge Management, Achmad teaches Human Capital Management, Knowledge Management, Organizational Development, and Learning Organization, and Contemporary Human Resource Management. He received a PhD from the College of Business, Massey University in New Zealand. His research interests are knowledge management, learning organization, human capital management, creative industry, business strategy, and organizational development.

Henndy Ginting

Dr Henndy Ginting, S.Psi., M.Si. is a licensed psychologist from Indonesia who earned his doctorate degree from the Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Dr Ginting has published research articles in prestigious international journals and presented his research findings at many international conferences. He has developed and adapted various psychological measures and assessment center’s simulations and exercises. Since August 2016, Dr. Ginting has been assigned as an associate professor in the School of Business and Management, Bandung Institute of Technology. In this institution, Dr. Ginting runs several research projects and services especially in the areas of organizational behavior, entrepreneurial psychology, leadership, personality, psychosocial factors at work, and work-related behavior. He is also assigned as a student counseling specialist in SBM ITB.