- Title
- An arts based comparative study of pre-service teachers' perceptions of lecturers' engagement with a humanizing pedagogy
- Creator
- Wafula, Josphat Gamba
- Subject
- Teacher-student relationships -- South Africa
- Subject
- Teacher-student relationships -- Kenya Teachers college graduates -- South Africa Teachers college graduates -- Kenya Teachers -- Training of -- South Africa Teachers -- Training of -- Kenya
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MEd
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20162
- Identifier
- vital:29148
- Description
- The tenet of this study was to elicit pre-service teachers’ insights, thoughts and opinions on their perceptions of lecturers’ engagement with a humanizing pedagogy through the analysis of the participants’ role plays, focused group interviews and written narratives. For the purposes of this study a qualitative approach was adopted employing a multiple case study design that focused on two African institutions; one in Kenya (University M) and one in South Africa (University N), involving 3rd year pre-service teachers in the intermediate phase programme of study. The accumulated data were coded, integrated and analyzed thematically. The findings revealed that although there are lectures who make concerted efforts to embrace humanizing pedagogy in their teaching and create opportunities for interactive learning, most of the teaching is concerned with the issuing of communiqués prepared by others with little input from students thereby leading to a one-way communication process, which denies students of a voice. One-way dialogue excludes the students from critical participation as highlighted by the participants in the study. Furthermore, the findings emerging from the study revealed that the participants perceived the humanizing pedagogy as key to facilitating a safe and friendly learning environment; a strategy that affirms interactive engagement and one which favors a learner-centered approach inclusive of positive pedagogical practices and approaches. The findings of the study also revealed that the dehumanizing experiences that participants had to contend with focused predominantly on the teachers’ obsession with banking education which the participants believed stifled the development of critical consciousness. It is hoped that the findings emerging from this study will inform an understanding and need for dialogue since the study provides valuable insights into the personal and professional transformation which can take place in the lecture rooms. Furthermore, the study has the potential to inform Kenyan and South African teacher education programs with a view to improving teaching practices and approaches that have the potential to stimulate critical and creative thinking through active participation, dialogue and interactive meaning-making.
- Format
- xiv, 172 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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