often dissatisfied with the teachers’ability to showflexibility (Pietarinen 2000 ). It
might well be argued that a sign of teachers’professionalism is to be able to analyse
students’experiences to develop teaching strategies that meet students’needs. It is
especially important that teachers should attempt to situate the content of their
lessons within the context ofstudents’everyday life, both at school and out of
school. The qualities required of teachers should thus include more reflection and
evaluation of the practical experiences of the teaching and of supporting the stu-
dents’skills together with the students. As such, teachers might cultivate the ability
to view the classroom as a pedagogical environment for developing PCK from a
perspective that reflects the experience of the students.
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