Case Study of the Integration of Digital Competencies into Teacher Preparation

Ján Záhorec, Alena Hašková, Adriana Poliaková and Michal Munk
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Ján Záhorec: Department of Didactics of Natural Sciences in Primary Education, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, Račianska 59, 813 34 Bratislava, Slovakia
Alena Hašková: Department of Technology and Information Technologies, Faculty of Education, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, 949 74 Nitra, Slovakia
Adriana Poliaková: Department of Pedagogy and Social Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Bratislava, Račianska 59, 813 34 Bratislava, Slovakia
Michal Munk: Department of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, 949 74 Nitra, Slovakia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 11, 1-28

Abstract: The requirements imposed on schools and the competencies of teachers change depending on the development of society, and currently their constant growth is considerable. These facts lead to the need to continuously innovate pre-service teacher training, especially with a focus on creating professional digital literacy. The creation of a proposal of an optimal model of pre-service teacher training in the field of teacher trainees’ professional didactic-technological competency development was the subject of the research, which is described in the article. The described research examined the importance of the integration of various kinds of digital didactic tools into pre-service teacher training curricula with regard to the successful performance of the teaching profession. The necessary research data were obtained on the basis of screening the opinions of teacher trainees in Slovakia and the Czech Republic ( n = 280). The respondents of the research survey expressed, in terms of various aspects, their opinions on the importance of integrating the issue of working with specified kinds of the given digital means into the curricula of teacher trainees’ study programs. The obtained research data were analysed depending on three segmentation factors of the respondents, which were the nationality of the student (i.e., the COUNTRY of his/her study), the GENDER of the respondent, and the combination of these two factors, i.e., COUNTRY X GENDER. According to the achieved results, there is a need to include or strengthen the teaching of software applications such as ActivInspire, FreeMind, SMART Notebook, Google Docs and, if possible, Prezi and Mindomo, and also a need to emphasize the methodological aspects of the use of these technical means in teaching.

Keywords: pedagogical innovation; pre-service teacher training; curricula design; digital literacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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