Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Pius Peter Mgeni Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 120 ISBN: 9783844393668
Описание
This study investigated the views of key stakeholders in education on the shift from academic subject content to pedagogy in diploma teacher education in Tanzania. A sample of 125 respondents including: diploma college tutors, trainee teachers, university scholars at the faculty of education in the University of Dar-es-Salaam, secondary school teachers and officials at the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training and Tanzania Institute of Education provided the requisite information. Data were obtained through questionnaires that used closed and open-ended questions, semi-structured interviews and documentary review. With an exception of the officials at the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, the findings indicated that majority of the respondents were explicit in expressing doubts on the new teacher education curriculum which deprive trainee teachers from academic subject matter content stressing that knowing precedes doing. Based on the findings of this study, the...
