The study was conducted to examine the perspective of "reflection contents and levels" of
reflective teachers targeting pre-service elementary teachers in a practical teaching situation
in which induces reflection of actual context.
What found in this study were as follows:
First, the reflection contents of pre-service elementary teachers demonstrated through
teaching practice were mostly concentrated on the use of knowledge (63.1%) and teaching
activities (27%), while professional issues in education were relatively insignificant. In
particular, not much reflection contents of macro-level perspective was found, such as the
image of teachers, desired teaching types, changes in value orientation. Second, reflection
contents of pre-service elementary teachers showed two or more complex structures. Third,
82.8% of the characteristics of the reflection level of pre-service elementary teachers shown
through teaching practice were mostly concentrated on the lower tree levels (technical
writing, technical reflection 1, and technical reflection 2), which do not include much of
reflection contents. Fourth, another particularity shown in the reelection level of pre-service
elementary teachers is that there is no obvious alternative or new problem for class
improvement, even in the technical reflection level 2 that includes ones opinions.
Hence, a teachers and teaching course of Education University should introduce programs
that link with various topics to ensure discussions and debates among pre-service teachers
regarding their experiences of seeing, hearing, and feeling, and the need of efforts by
pre-service teachers to raise questions continuously.