PROFESSIONAL THINKING AND SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL HISTORY TEACHERS IN DIYALA GOVERNORATE
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https://doi.org/10.18623/rvd.v23.6361Palavras-chave:
Professional Thinking, Scientific Imagination, Teacher Competence, History Education, Secondary School TeachersResumo
The goals of this research are as follows.
- Determine how far down the path to professional thought the history instructors at the secondary school level are.
- To gauge the level of scientific imagination among history instructors at the secondary level.
- To assess secondary school history teachers' level of expertise in their field.
Aiming to determine if there was a connection between the sample's professional thought and competence was the primary objective. Four hundred secondary school history instructors from Diyala's General Directorate of Education (both male and female) make up the study's research sample. The sample represented 30% of the overall population of 1335 educators. Using a stratified random sampling procedure, the study's sample consisted of 634 male instructors and 701 female teachers. The researcher has come up with three methods to achieve the goals of the study. The original professional thinking tool was developed on the foundation of Konstantinovia's (1988) idea. The foregoing led to the final version of the scale with 30 items across 3 domains. Among them were the domains of cognition, creativity, and practicality.
The second instrument computed scientific imagination according to Augustin's (2015) understanding of the concept. Each of the three characteristics of scientific sensitivity, scientific creativity, and scientific productivity were covered by 25 items in the previous edition of the instrument. A test of expert-level knowledge and skill made up the third tool. According to Glasser's Choice Theory (2019), this metric is based on. The scale consists of 30 elements that are organized into three categories.
- g. Concepts
- h. Teachers’ awareness
- Teaching context.
The study reached the following results:
- The history instructors of Diyala's General Directorate of Education are very competent.
- The history instructors at Diyala's General Directorate of Education have a scientific mindset.
- Diyala's history instructors are highly qualified professionals in their field.
- The research sample shows a strong and statistically significant relationship between professional competence and professional thinking.
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