“…Difficulties in recruiting and training high quality physics teachers have prompted researchers to develop and test a number of different approaches to physics teacher education (Singh et al, 2010;Thomaz & Gilbert, 1989). Previous research has investigated trainee physics teachers' learning of specific physics content (Aiello-Nicosia & Sperandeo-Mineo, 2000;Mäntylä, 2012;Mäntylä & Koponen, 2007), trainees' difficulties and misconceptions in physics (Kaltakci-Gurel et al, 2016;Şahin & Yağbasan, 2012), as well as the epistemological development of trainee physics teachers (Ding & Zhang, 2016;Fazio et al, 2012). In many countries physics departments play a central role in the education of physics teachers, but the attitude and approach of physics departments toward physics teacher education has been shown to vary considerably both within and between countries (Evagorou et al, 2015;T-TEP, 2012;Vollmer, 2003).…”