The Challenges for Teachers in the Teaching of Topics Associated with Botswana's "Vision 2016"

Autor/in	Adeyemi, Michael Bamidele
Titel	The Challenges for Teachers in the Teaching of Topics Associated with Botswana's "Vision 2016"
Quelle	In: Multicultural Education, 16 (2009) 3, S.24-28 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068-3844
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Community Support; Values Education; Moral Values; Social Values; Teaching Methods; Secondary School Teachers; Ethics; Critical Thinking; Teacher Qualifications; Teaching Experience; Educational Resources; Student Diversity; Preservice Teacher Education; Botswana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Werterziehung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Sozialer Wert; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ethik; Kritisches Denken; Lehrqualifikation; Bildungsmittel; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung
Abstract	The world is a diverse ecosystem where humans and the environment must interact and live in harmony. In order to keep any society going, either at the national or global level, the importance of having visions for the improvement of that society cannot be overemphasized. It is in the light of this dream of making Botswana an enviable nation that the "Vision 2016" was published in 1997. A pillar of the "Vision" focuses on the development of a moral and tolerant nation. This article presents a brief literature review that focuses on the "moral and tolerant" aspects as aspirations of a nation. These two concepts are values which have implications for classroom pedagogy. This article reports an investigation of 64 teachers at the junior secondary school level and the challenges faced by them when teaching topics related to these values with their attendant remedies. The identified challenges included the difficulty of the use of critical and ethical reasoning methods in classes, a lack of community support, inadequate teachers' qualifications and experience, needed teaching resources, and the heterogeneity of the students, among others. The teachers provide some remedies to these challenges, while the investigator advocates for further research on the appropriate methods for teaching values in schools. (Contains 2 tables.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10