Issues and Agenda for Further Research on Pedagogical Content Knowledge

Abstract

This paper is an abstract of a keynote speech on JCRDA symposium in 2015. The core issue of it is focused on the concept of PCK, pedagogical content knowledge, which was presented by Lee Shulman in 1986. The PCK has been a central arena of curriculum studies of each subject area, research on teaching and learning science for the past 30 years. This paper takes it into consideration. In order to rethink significance, possibilities and criticism of theoretical and even practical functions of PCK in terms of further research on PCK.