Using teacher stories to reveal quality educational practice: An Eastern Cape experience
- 作者：Kathryn Paige ; Mike Chartres ; Alan Kenyon
- 关键词：Teacher development ; Science curriculum ; Mathematics curriculum ; Primary education ; Eastern Cape ; South Africa ; Teacher oral histories
- 刊名：International Journal of Educational Development
- 出版年：2008
- 期刊代码：45_07380593
- 类别：soc
- 出版时间：September 2008
- 卷：28
- 期：5
- 页码：524-533
- 文件大小：174 K
摘要
The University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project set out to improve qualifications of primary teachers in rural and township schools in the Eastern Cape of the Republic of South Africa. At the culmination of an 11-year AUSAid collaboration between the University of Fort Hare and University of South Australia a research project to reveal quality educational practice was undertaken. Using oral histories as the methodology, teacher stories were gathered through a sequence of interviews and classroom observations. This collection of oral histories constitutes the basis for the paper. Its research focus has been the science and mathematics practices of eight teachers who typify the many hundreds who participated in the project. This paper explores the use of oral history as a methodology for documenting quality educational practice.