Comparative Pedagogies and Epistemological Diversity: Social and Materials Contexts of Teaching in Tanzania

Autor/inn/en	Vavrus, Frances; Bartlett, Lesley
Titel	Comparative Pedagogies and Epistemological Diversity: Social and Materials Contexts of Teaching in Tanzania
Quelle	In: Comparative Education Review, 56 (2012) 4, S.634-658 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-4086
DOI	10.1086/667395
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Comparative Analysis; Epistemology; Teacher Educators; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Teaching Methods; Partnerships in Education; Teaching Conditions; Secondary School Teachers; Workshops; Student Centered Curriculum; Teacher Attitudes; Cultural Context; Social Environment; Tanzania; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Erkenntnistheorie; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Pädagogische Kompetenz; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Lehrbedingungen; Unterrichtsbedingungen; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Lehrerverhalten; Soziales Umfeld; Tansania; USA
Abstract	This article examines how epistemological differences regarding knowledge production and material differences in the conditions of teaching influence teachers' and teacher educators' understandings of learner-centered pedagogy. Emerging from a 5-year collaboration between teams of US and Tanzanian teacher educators, the research focuses on six Tanzanian secondary schools whose teachers participated in a workshop on learner-centered pedagogy and pedagogical content knowledge. We find that teachers' views of knowledge production are profoundly shaped by the cultural, economic, and social contexts in which they teach. We conclude not only that teachers' working conditions are important contextual factors in comparative studies of schooling but that the conditions themselves need to be conceptualized more fully in theories of knowledge production and global/local reforms of teacher education. (Contains 1 table and 10 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10