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Author Tabulawa, Richard

Title Teaching and learning in context : why pedagogical reforms fail in Sub-Saharan Africa / Richard Tabulawa
Published Oxford : CODESRIA, [2013]

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Contents Making a Case for a Socio-cultural Approach -- Why Learner-centred Pedagogy in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Learner-centredness and Teacher-centredness : Pedagogical Paradigms? -- Teacher-centred Pedagogy as Co-construction -- Social Structure and Pedagogy -- Post-independence Educational Planning and Classroom Practice -- Missionary Education and Pedagogical Practice -- Curriculum as Context of Teaching and Learning -- Conclusion : Beyond Colonising Pedagogy
Summary Since the 1990s, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced unprecedented attempts at reforming teacher and student classroom practices, with a learner-centred pedagogy regarded as an effective antidote to the prevalence of teacher-centred didactic classroom practices. Attempts at reform have been going on all over the continent. In fact, learner-centred pedagogy has been described as one of the most pervasive educational ideas in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere. Research has revealed that the major attempts have largely failed mainly because teachers have not been able to adopt instructional innovations to technical problems. This failure is also related to lack of resources, and poor teacher training programmes which lead to poor teacher quality, among others. This book attempts to explain why pedagogical change has not occurred in spite of the much energy and resources that have been committed to such reforms. The book also takes us inside what the author calls "the socio-cultural world of African classrooms" to help readers understand the reasons teachers dominate classroom life and rely disproportionately on didactic methods of teaching
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Subject Education and state -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Failure (Psychology) -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Teaching -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Classroom management -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Teacher-student relationships -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Classroom management
Education and state
Failure (Psychology)
Teacher-student relationships
Teaching
Sub-Saharan Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9782086978589
2086978588