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Title:Pedagogical shift in the twenty-first century: preparing teachers to teach with new technologies
Author:Chigona, Agnes
Year:2015
Periodical:Africa Education Review (ISSN 1753-5921)
Volume:12
Issue:3
Pages:478-492
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:teacher education
information technology
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2015.1110912
Abstract:The expectation in education today is that pre-service teachers should graduate from teacher education adequately prepared to teach with Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) that have potential to enhance curriculum delivery, hence improving quality of education. However, research shows that pre-service teachers are graduating from teacher education underequipped to teach with ICTs. The aim of this study is to understand why, given the deployment of ICTs for teaching and learning in teacher education, the new teachers remain underprepared to teach with ICTs. Qualitative research approach was employed in this study, whereby randomly selected pre-service teachers from the Western Cape (South Africa) were interview respondents. Written reflections on their preparation to teach with ICTs also formed part of the data collected. Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) theory was embraced to guide the study. Analysis of the data shows that the main contributing factor of the new teachers' under-preparedness to teach using ICTs is the quality of instruction they receive during their training. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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