RETRACTED: Psychological and pedagogical foundations of practice-oriented learning of future STEAM teachers

Abstract

• The study studies the development of the psychological skills of teachers. • The psychological skills of the experiment participants were tested. • There were positive changes in the results of assessing psychological skills. In the modern educational environment, it has become popular to use practice-oriented learning technologies in the preparation of future teachers. Scientists and educators are increasingly resorting to the practice of STEAM education (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics), which is based on interdisciplinarity and the integration of five scientific fields into a single learning system for solving specific problems taken from real life. This study is aimed at studying the development of psychological and pedagogical skills of future teachers in the framework of practice-oriented learning. The research sample included 46 students of S. Yessenov Caspian University of Technologies and Engineering (Kazakhstan) aged 21 to 23 years. The participants were divided into experimental and control groups. In the experimental group, students additionally studied according to the course “STEAM education” developed by the authors. Formation of psychological and pedagogical skills of the experiment participants was assessed using pre- and post-tests. Experimental group students showed higher results in comparison with the control group. The difference between the mean values (M=3.4) of the general indicator of the experimental and control groups is statistically significant (p<0.05). Comparison of the indicators of the final and preparatory study stages showed that there were positive changes in the results of assessing psychological and pedagogical skills in the experimental group, the efficiency coefficient (Ce)>1. The results of this study can be useful for teachers, administrators of higher educational institutions, etc.