Contact,Absorb,Integrate,and Construct

The novice science teachers' professional growth is a key link to ensure the quality and effectiveness of science education reform,and also an important aspect of science teacher education.In the face of the transformation of identity and role,the change of cultural field,the collision of theory and practice,the novice science teachers will inevitably encounter discomfort.They need to find new knowledge and new ways to achieve professional growth in all aspects,so that they can gradually settle down in the school field.So,What kind of professional growth problems will novice science teachers encounter?How do they view and solve these problems?What is the value and significance of the real professional growth of the novice science teachers?What can be done for related subjects?The purpose of this study is to research the professional growth of novice science teachers in real,micro and specific situations.Based on a number of existing studies on related topics,this study focuses on three aspects of the novice science teachers' professional growth:the development of teaching knowledge and ability;the adaptation of school culture;the professional identity.Furthermore,this study analyzes and discusses these three aspects from the perspectives of “Practical Cognition Theory”,“Cultual Adaptation Theory”and “Identity Theory”.Using the narrative research method of qualitative research,this study observed,investigated and interviewed the professional practice life of 11 novice science teachers in Hangzhou S Middle School,Zhejiang Province.It described and presented the real state of the professional growth of novice science teachers in detail,and further revealed the significance behind the real state.This study found that:Firstly,it is a continuous process of “experience fracture”and “knowledge embodied” for the development of teaching knowledge and ability of novice science teachers.In the face of the problem situation,they often find that their existing cognitive experience is not enough to deal with it effectively.They need to learn,try,act,reflect,test and confirm constantly to absorb and generate new knowledge and ability.Moreover,these new knowledge and abilities,through the clarification of the specific problem-solving process,have the context significance and individual specific significance,and become the faith and behavior guide of the novice science teachers.At the same time,we can also find the influence of cultural factors on the development of novice science teachers' teaching knowledge and ability.This kind of influence infiltrates all aspects of school life,all pervasive,deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.It clearly conveys the value orientation of the school mainstream to the novice science teachers,and then determines their focus and direction of thinking and action to a great extent.Secondly,the process of school culture adaptation of novice science teachers is mainly manifested in the game between their original cultural characteristics and the school's mainstream cultural values.In this process,the novice science teachers constantly experience the cultural distance between themselves and the new situation,and then make the self choice on the trend of cultural adaptation.Although every teacher's school cultural adaptation will be different,however,every time they perceive the cultural distance,it can be said that they are still “putsiders”,and every choice and behavior in their corresponding cultural activities,at least express their expectations and attempts to becomen “insiders”.It can be seen that the school cultural adaptation of the novice science teachers is actually a process of cultural comparison,selection and identification.In this process,they gradually clarify the cultural characteristics of “insiders”and gradually construct themselves as “insiders”.Of course,the novice science teachers adapt to the school cultrue,but also in the material culture,institutional culture,spiritual culture,interpersonal relationship and other different levels,bringing a lot of new creative development to the school culture.Thirdly,the identity of the novice science teachers is a process of seeking for self as a “science teacher”.In this process,the novice science teachers are constantly perceiving and perceiving the differences between the internal self and the external selfe,and then constantly reshaping the selfe identified in ideology and behavior;they constantly explore the typical characteristics of science teachers and the essential differences between different subject groups,so as to recognize themselves as members of science teachers in reference and comparison;they constantly understand the multi-cultural value orientation in the school field,constantly switch their words and deeds with different measurement standards,so as to adapt themselves to the cultural identity in different situations.Based on the above research findings,this study finds that the novice science teachers' professional growth is in the overall background of the spatial separation and cultural integration within and outside the school field,and generally shows the process characteristics of contact,absorb,integrate,and construct.The accumulation of all kinds of social capital has become a tool demand to promote the professional growth of the novice science teachers,and to draw nutrients from the community can directly and effectively achieve the professional growth.At the same time,this study rethinks the pre service training of science teachers from the aspects of the cultivation of professional well-being of normal students,the improvement of knowledge structure of normal students,the consolidation of “basic skills”of normal students,the cultivation of social and cultural ability of normal students;rethinks the post career growth of science teachers from the aspects of active planning of professional growth,deeply understanding and implement the humanistic value of science,improvement of teaching generation ability,and comprehensive construction of the support system for the novice science teachers.Finally,this study discusses some shortages and the future expectations.