ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Teacher Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1568366
The Role of Project-Based Ethno-Didactics of Mathematics Learning toward Pre-service Elementary Teachers' Perspectives, Mathematical and Didactic Knowledge
Provisionally accepted
- Riau University, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
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Research indicates that both pre-service and in-service teachers struggle with explaining mathematical concepts to elementary school students due to insufficient mathematical and didactic knowledge. This study aims to examine the effects of Project-Based Ethno-Didactics of Mathematics Learning on pre-service elementary teachers' perspectives, mathematical knowledge, and didactic knowledge. This is a quasiexperimental study with a one-group pre-test and post-test design. The participants in the study were 39 second-year pre-service elementary teachers from a public university in Riau province, Indonesia, enrolled in an elementary school teacher education program. A non-parametric statistical test (Wilcoxon test) was utilized to analyze the data and test the hypothesis. The findings of this study revealed that Project-Based Ethno-Didactics of Mathematics Learning has a significant effect on pre-service elementary teachers' perspectives, mathematical knowledge, and didactic knowledge. However, it was discovered that their mathematical and didactic knowledge had not increased to the maximum degree, particularly in some specific mathematical contents.
Keywords: Didactic knowledge, ethno-didactics of mathematics, mathematical knowledge, Pre-service elementary teachers, project-based learning
Received: 29 Jan 2025; Accepted: 18 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Putra, Hermita, Alexander Alim, Dahnilsyah and Gunawan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Zetra Hainul Putra, Riau University, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
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