Abstract A qualitative case study investigated the constraints encountered by Grade 10 teachers in teaching English as a Second Language in rural areas of the Oshana region, in Namibia. The convenience sampling techniques were used to sample the 10 schools for participation in the study. Using a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews as instruments, the study investigated, firstly, the constraints teachers encounter in teaching ESL; secondly, the kind of support teachers in rural school...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate how teachers conceptualize disruptive behaviour and to explore the strategies they use in combating class disruption at senior primary schools in the Otjozondjupa region. A qualitative case study design was used to investigate this phenomenon in the two best-performing schools and two under-performing schools in the Otjozondjupa region. The target population for this study consisted of senior primary school teachers (Grades 4 to Grade7) fr...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to identify the benefits and challenges of including learners with hearing impairments in inclusive schools in Khomas and Oshana regions. The study was guided by the following research questions: 1) What did learners, teachers and parents perceive to be benefits of including learners with hearing impairments in inclusive secondary schools in Oshana and Khomas Regions? 2) What did learners, teachers and parents perceive to be challenges of including learn...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out in order to investigate the perceptions of teachers on reflective practice and teaching at Dawid Bezuidenhout High School and how their perceptions may impact on teaching and learning. The following were the main objectives of the research: To investigate the views of teachers at Dawid Bezuidenhout High School on reflective practice in teaching; to examine the application of reflective practice in teaching (by teachers) at Dawid Bezuidenhout High School and...
ABSTRACT The family context for child development has for ages remained one of the most important contributors to the quality of child development where marital stability stays at the core of this context. The study assessed effectiveness of premarital education towards marital stability and parenting in Tanzania based on experiences from the Sandawe community in Dodoma. It had five objectives which were: i) To ascertain premarital education practices adopted towards marital stability in the ...
ABSTRACT Many developing countries recognised the importance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education for teaching and learning. In Namibia ICT use in the classroom remains limited. The purpose of this study was to investigate the Namibian Life Science teachers’ use of ICT in their classrooms to promote collaborative and creative teaching. Activity theory was used as a lens to interprete Life Science teachers’ use of ICT. Activity theory promotes technological creati...
ABSTRACT Reading with comprehension is a matter of concern in Namibian schools. To read with understanding, reading comprehension strategies should explicitly be taught to learners. Six reading comprehension strategies were identified by researchers as effective in improving reading comprehension. The purpose of this study was to find out whether teachers are acquainted with a range of reading comprehension strategies, whether they are explicitly teaching them and whether they are trained in ...
ABSTRACT Climate change is an environmental challenge that needs urgent attention. It is for this reason it is taught in Social Studies at the Junior Secondary School level to impart environmental knowledge. Literature was largely descriptive survey on awareness, perception and attitude to climate change without considering instructional interventions. This study determined the effects of mentoring and field study instructional strategies on students‘ learning outcomes in climate change con...
ABSTRACT The traditional instructional strategies employed by most physics teachers in teaching the subject has consistently led to low student achievement. Hence there is need to employ new instructional strategies such as problem-based learning (PBL) and interactive invention (IIS) instructional strategies, particularly, among the NCE pre-service teachers in Nigeria. The two strategies have been proved in the literature to help in alleviating the problem of low student achievement in physic...
ABSTRACT Mathematics is viewed as the basis for science and technology as well as a tool for achieving scientific and technological development. Despite the importance to human activities and development, students generally view Mathematics as being an abstract subject. This has resulted in poor performance in the subject arising from the poor instructional strategies adopted in its teaching. Many studies attempting to find a solution to this problem but only a few had focused on such strateg...
ABSTRACT English is indispensable in communication and it is a tool for learning in Nigeria. Many secondary school students perform poorly in English Language examinations because of their deficient knowledge of English grammar which in turn leads to their inability to write good composition. The use of conventional instructional strategies for learning has failed to address this problem in Ibadan metropolis. However, less attention has been paid to the use of Direct and Indirect explicit gra...
ABSTRACT Female students‘ enrolment and completion in university education in Nigeria was low between 2001-2010. These have been attributed to some personal, home and social factors which have inhibited many females from being enrolled and completing university education in some courses. Previous studies examined the link between these factors and low female enrolment and completion at the primary and secondary school levels without focusing on Science Education, Engineering, Agriculture, L...
ABSTRACT Computers enhance the process of understanding when used for teaching and learning. This made the Nigerian Government to introduce computer studies into the basic education curriculum. However, the content and activities in the computer basic curriculum are centred mostly around browsing and clicking and not on programming as many believed that programming is for adults. This study, therefore, developed a Language of Graphics Orientation (LOGO) instructional package and investigated ...
ABSTRACT This study investigated effects of Freewriting Brainstorming Instructional Strategies (FBIS) and Questioning Brainstorming Instructional Strategies (QBIS) on Junior Secondary School (JSS) students’ learning outcomes in Basic Science in Osun State, Nigeria. The moderating effects of gender and personality traits were also examined. The pretest-posttest, control group, quasi experimental design involving 3x2x2 factorial matrix was employed. The research population comprised all the J...
ABSTRACT A large number of pre-service English as Second Language (ESL) teachers trained in Nigeria have deficiencies in developing and demonstrating appropriate teaching skills and attitude during Teaching Practice (TP). This is probably as a result of their inadequate exposure to participatory practices like Reflective Teaching Practice (RTP) and Micro-Teaching Practice (MTP) during the exercise. Previous studies on RTP and MTP have focused on different areas of teacher behaviour but have n...