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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 14
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A Philosophy for Teaching in This Strange Place
Chasi, Colin
Africa Education Review, v12 n4 p618-631 2015
Lecturing can be positively regarded as a practice by which students can be treated with respect in educational processes which grant them freedom to pursue and acquire new knowledge that meets their needs. Lecturing can also be negatively conceived as a practice which others students and positions them as people who deserve to be chided and harangued towards new knowledge. This negative conception is magnified in this strange place where what is taught to overly large classes offensively propagates colonial and apartheid schemata, while failing to advance the development needs of students. My teaching philosophy is a humanistic response to the difficulties of teaching in this strange circumstance.
Descriptors: Student Needs, Foreign Policy, Racial Segregation, Lecture Method, Educational Philosophy, Humanism, Teaching Methods, Communications, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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