Visiting Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK): Issues and Challenges for Teachers' Professional Development

What Is Tpack?

As shown in Figure 1, TPACK contains three main components of teachers' knowledge: content, pedagogy, and technology. The TPACK framework builds on Shulman's (1986, 1987) descriptions of PCK (pedagogical content knowledge). Shulman developed the idea of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) to describe the relationship between the amount and organization of knowledge of a particular subject-matter (content) and knowledge related to how to teach various content (pedagogy). The interactions of these three forms of knowledge are interacted and developed to be other secondary forms of knowledge that include pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK), and technological content knowledge (TCK). Ultimately, emerging from interactions among different combination of the six forms of knowledge, the integrated form of knowledge, TPACK (technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge), is formed (Cox & Graham, 2009).