scholarly journals Using participatory research with student teachers in a South African English Education lecture-room: methodological implications

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ansurie Pillay
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
South African ◽  
English Education ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Lecture Room ◽  
Agents Of Change

This article focusses on the methodological implications of using participatory action research (PAR) in an English Education lecture-room at a South African university. It argues that research with, by and for student teachers may engender their empowerment and transformation. Using a system of interventions with literary texts as catalysts, the student teachers worked towards becoming agents of change in their future classrooms. Over a twoyear period, the student teachers and researcher worked collaboratively on the study that was framed by critical pedagogy. Information was collected using interviews, focus groups, student evaluations, drawings and written work and the data was analysed qualitatively. The study found that using PAR teaches student teachers important research skills that they may take into their classrooms. Further, the use of active dialogue and collaboration in a supportive environment facilitates PAR progressing successfully. Finally, critical reflexivity in PAR enables the process of change agency.

scholarly journals Reflecting on BEd students' experiences of unfamiliar school contexts during school-based learning: A proposition for transformative learning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deidre Geduld ◽  
Heloise Sathorar ◽  
Muki Moeng
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
School Based ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Bachelor Of Education ◽  
Practice Teaching

As critical teacher educators, we advocate the transformational potential of school-based learning (SBL). Changing practice teaching contexts to accommodate unfamiliar SBL environments for student teachers offers them an excellent opportunity to develop critical skills as transformative intellectuals and agents of change. Yet anxiety about unfamiliar placements often prevents them from making the most of potential learning experiences. In this paper, we generated data via World Café conversations in which final-year Bachelor of Education (BEd) student teachers described their experiences of operating in an unfamiliar schooling context. The findings suggest that changing the SBL context can enable transformative learning experiences using critical pedagogy principles. Student teachers reported that they not only developed classroom skills, knowledge, confidence, and a deeper appreciation of learning opportunities through changing practice teaching contexts, but that they also gained a new understanding of what teacher transformative learning involves.

scholarly journals ¿Qué profesional de la educación para qué escuela y para qué sociedad?

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-231
Author(s):  
Teresa García Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Democratic Schools ◽  
Education Professional ◽  
Agents Of Change

Este artículo, resultado de la revisión y reflexión teórica, responde a la pregunta que todo profesional de la educación debería formularse: qué ser humano se desea formar para qué sociedad. Si aspiramos a una sociedad más justa y más humana, una sociedad convivencial, constituida por sujetos libres y emancipados, que es el planteamiento de este trabajo, necesitamos formar docentes, desde la pedagogía crítica, como agentes de cambio e intelectuales transformadores para que contribuyan al desarrollo de escuelas democráticas. Es decir, docentes que configuren un currículum contrahegemónico en el marco de una organización participativa en colaboración con la comunidad, instancias y movimientos sociopolíticos. This article, resulting from theoretical review and reflection, answers the question that every education professional should ask themselves: what human being is to be trained for what society. If our ambition is for a fairer and more humane society, a convivial society made up of free and emancipated subjects, which is the approach of this work, there is a need to train teachers, from critical pedagogy, as agents of change or transformative intellectuals so that they help towards the development of democratic schools. That is to say, teachers who shape a counterhegemonic curriculum in the context of a participatory organisation in collaboration with the community, authorities and sociopolitical movements.

scholarly journals Implementasi Komunikasi Pemasaran Lembaga Pendidikan Informal “Seaman’s English Education Indonesia ”

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
Aldi Satrio Herlambang
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Education ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Brand Awareness ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Communication Program

Seaman’s English Education Indonesia  (SEE Indonesia) is an informal educational institution located in North Jakarta that offers a variety of courses for seafarers, mainly the Marlins Test course, and an English language test for seafarers. Because it’s new, it is fitting that the level of brand awareness  by consumers is still very low. Based on data from customer visits in SEE Indonesia per year since its inception, only 768 people have visited SEE Indonesia, whether they only came or used the services of courses. This number is still very small compared to the total number of Indonesian seafarers, which are around 850,000. Therefore a marketing communication program is needed so that SEE Indonesia can increase brand awareness  and win the market from its competitors. In order to increase the brand awareness  of SEE Indonesia, then in this work the writer will use the Participatory Action Research method, where this method will involve people involved in existing problems to actively participate so that they are expected to get a solution right. The results of the Participatory Action Research will then become information material for the SOSTAC theory that will be used to create the SEE Indonesia marketing communication program.

scholarly journals Hegemony in Effective Communication on the Modern Health Services During Pregnancy, Give Birth, and Postpartum in Baduy Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Ratih Ariningrum ◽  
Vita Kartika ◽  
Rozana Ika Agustiya ◽  
Choirum Latifah
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Maternal Deaths ◽  
The Public ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Organic Intellectual

Kanekes Village, where Baduy people live, is the biggest contributor to maternal deaths in the District of Lebak. Baduy awareness to check pregnancy at midwives has begun to increase, but for childbirth and childbirth examination has not been carried out. That is because there is a culture in the Baduy community regarding childbirth itself, as well as their adherence to the rules that have been issued by traditional leaders. The research uses a qualitative approach with the Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach. This study aims to examine the constraints and analyze the process of the formation of relationships between health workers, cadres, and heads of RT with the Baduy community in effective communication to improve modern health services during pregnancy, give birth, and postpartum in the Baduy community. The results showed that modern health services can be applied to the behavior of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperal of the Baduy community if the agents of change (organic intellectual) can change the idea of the modern health service into an ideology, then popular belief is obtained, then hegemony is formed from the agents of change. The final stage is that the country must be able to accommodate this effort. The efforts of agents of change (organic intellectuals) from the idea of modern health services to the created hegemony are sought by effective communication. Implementation of effective communication is pursued by provding explanations that are easily understood by the public through simulations.

scholarly journals Effects of Digital Short Stories on the Development of Listening Skills: An Action Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 65-84
Author(s):  
Zeynep Çetin Köroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Listening Skills

Literary texts can be used to improve language learners' skills such as reading, writing, speaking and listening because these texts contain rich vocabulary, complex grammar structures, interesting plot and most importantly imagination of the author. However, using literature for language teaching purposes is a controversial issue among scholars. While some researchers think positively, others have negative views on the subject. Learners' needs and way of using literary texts are the main concerns of literature use in language pedagogy. In this context, the present research aimed to find out whether digital short stories can improve language learners' listening skills. The purpose of this study was to figure out student teachers' perceptions of digital short stories’ implementation into language classrooms. Specifically, the current research aimed to investigate whether digital short stories are useful to develop language learners' listening skills in English. The research is action research in design. The study used pre-test and post-test, a written structured interview to collect data and it included both quantitative and qualitative components. The interview consisted of six open-ended questions. Achievement tests and t-test were used to analyze quantitative data. On the other hand, content analysis was used to analyze qualitative data. The data were collected in 2016-2017 academic years, Bayburt University. Participants were prep class students of English language teaching department of Bayburt University. In the treatment process, digital short stories were used for eight weeks, which were written by various famous American authors and voice recorded by various American natives. Additionally, weekly worksheets and handouts were prepared by the researcher. Results showed that digital short stories provide satisfactory content, supports vocabulary learning, improves language learners’ listening skills, helps participants to gain familiarity with complex grammar structures and makes students more familiar with different cultures. Furthermore, participants are satisfied with digital short stories and they think these digital stories are useful to improve their listening skills.

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