Teaching and learning of teacher education students in South African universities within a context of quality

• Main Author: Mutemeri, Judith
• Language: en
• Published: Cape Peninsula University of Technology 2012
• Subjects: Teachers > Training of > South Africa; Education > Study and teaching > South Africa; Student teaching > South Africa; Total quality management in higher education > South Africa; College teaching > South Africa
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1978

Thesis (Dtech( Education))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2010 === The study focused on teacher education in South African universities. The major purpose was to examine how teacher educators in South African universities prepared teacher education students for teaching and learning within a context of quality. It is important to start with quality teachers before being able to speak about quality education because "you cannot give what you do not have" (Parliamentary Monitoring Group of South Africa, 2009:3).Consistent with the postmodern qualitative paradigm I used phenomenology as the strategy of research. The main epistemological assumption was that the way of knowing reality was through exploring the experiences of others regarding a specific phenomenon, in this case teaching and learning of teacher education students. To this end the stories, experiences and voices of the respondents were the medium through which I explored and understood reality embedded in the teaching and learning of teacher education students.The research sites included four Faculties of Education nationally. Purposive sampling was conducted to adequately capture the heterogeneity of institutions especially of those faculties that offer Initial Professional Education for Teachers (IPET) programmes.Purposive sampling was also used to select both students and lecturers because respondents were selected on the basis of some defining characteristic that made them holders of the data needed for the study.