Category: Pedagogy

Without a doubt, one of the most fundamental expectations of any student within a university setting is the ability to read and comprehend empirical research. When a student enters into a graduate setting, he/she is expected to be able to extend a basic understanding of empirical research to a more concrete understanding of research as…

Differences between pedagogy and andragogy. What comes next? Education is a door of opportunities for all those who have it. Education shapes the destiny of a nation and it is the main asset of a person. The traditional classroom system has existed for hundreds of years. Pedagogy or the art of professional teaching is the…

Critical Pedagogy: An Overview by Matthew Smith and Peter McLaren at first seemed to be just another informative article. After I got into the article I found myself deeply interested in the point of this form of education building. This article provides readers with the complete depiction of the history of creation and the main…

Introduction Nurse educators make efforts to offer and exhibit efficient teaching in nursing courses. Similar to teachers in other fields of high school learning, nurse instructors have issues regarding the writing/reading approaches and the attitudes of student nurses. Learners also express worry about their personal skills as they start to receive and practice nursing courses…

Introduction The article Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior by Amy Chua sets out to demonstrate that the parenting technique employed by Chinese mothers is superior to that used by Western Mothers. The author, Amy Chua, is a Chinese by birth and a mother to two daughters and is therefore in a position to tell how…

The Role of Education Education entails the involvement of a person in the social perception of the contest. This means that education is an extensive process that starts as soon as an individual is born. Throughout the process, an individuals consciousness is saturated, shaped, trained, and developed whereby the behavior and feelings are stimulated. The…

The model of traditional education practiced in traditional classrooms has been practiced for an extended period throughout history. However, the rapid development of technology during the last two decades created the internet, an idea with tremendous potential that may be integrated into any sphere. The internet has created an alternative to the traditional education model…

Pedagogical content knowledge has become increasingly important for science teacher education. The delivery of rich educational content to learners in the modern classroom environment demands a profound understanding of the subject matter in question. The history of educations shows that teacher-training courses have been focusing on the teachers content knowledge. However, recent developments in teacher…

Classroom teaching is a very complex, challenging, demanding, frightening, and nuanced activity (Shulman, 2004). Notably, teachers receive and teacher education in learning institutions in a specific field, general knowledge, and pedagogical formation (Abell, 2008). As such, pedagogical content knowledge is based on both pedagogical and content knowledge. It incorporates pedagogical knowledge, teaching processes, content knowledge,…

Introduction The Pedagogy of the Oppressed presents concepts that guide the oppressed away from oppression. This essay presents the main concepts outlined in Freires book. It explains the teacher student relationship championed by Freire. In addition, it expands on the main principles of freedom, unity, and cooperation that guide the ideal relationship. To begin with,…