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Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching

Educational ResearcherPublished 1 February 1986
Lee S. Shulman
Citations4,395
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score2.83
SNIP3.26

Abstract

The paper presents the results of an extensive and relevant research program "Knowledge Growth in Teaching".Their results show that to teach not only content knowledge is required, in addition a "Pedagogical content knowledge" is needed, together with the context knowledge (curricular knowledge).Therefore, in addition to knowledge, teaching well requires understanding.Those who understand, then, teach.

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Social Sciences