Nzogela, Esco
(2015)
An investigation of teachers’ and Students’ Beliefs and Practices onuse of Participatory Teaching Methods in Secondary Schools in Moshi Municipality.
Masters thesis, The Open University Of Tanzania.
Abstract
The study aimed at investigating teachers’ and students’ beliefs and practices on use
of participatory teaching methods in secondary schools in Moshi Municipality. Data
for this study was collected from five secondary schools in Moshi Municipality in
Kilimanjaro Region. The study involved 100 respondents of these 30 were teachers
and 70 were secondary school students. The study employed mainly qualitative
approach in which data were collected using interview schedules, observation and
documentary reviews and analyzed using content analysis. The study revealed that
on the whole research participants agree effective application of participatory
teaching methods could help to improve the quality of secondary education in
Tanzania as in all five secondary schools teachers had wide knowledge about the
concept participatory teaching methods; both teachers and students had positive
attitudes towards participatory teaching methods; and that most of the secondary
school teachers used group discussion as the only participatory teaching method.
However, use of participatory teaching methods faced challenges related to
inadequate teaching and learning materials, poor classrooms environment, lack of inservice
training, lack of support from the heads of schools, lack of well constructed
and equipped laboratories and libraries, and large numbers of students in the
classrooms. There is a need for to have regular in-service training pertaining to
pedagogical skills, increase supply of teaching resources, construct more classrooms
and schools to have well equipped laboratories and libraries for effective application
of participatory teaching methods.
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