SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING AND INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION. PILOTING AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS

In this paper we highlight some main features of a SSIBL (Socio-Scientific Inquiry-based learning) course for prospective teachers. The SSIBL module consisted of a number of sessions and activities that engaged prospective teachers in knowing about SSIBL and how they could use this approach in their day-to-day teaching, preparing them to analyse SSIBL best-practices and reflect about key issues within these methodologies and pedagogical framework. The main aim of that module was to widespread SSIBL approaches among pre-service teachers. We have used mixed methods (pre-test post-test and qualitative analysis of content) to investigate the pre-service teacher's views, knowledge, gains and general feedback about the SSIBL module. Some preliminary results are presented regarding data from the first round of implementation and evaluation.