- Title
- Enhancing the critical reading skills of student teachers in Namibia : An action research project
- Title
- Chapter 1
- Creator
- Dikuwa, Alexander
- ThesisAdvisor
- Murray, Sarah
- Subject
- Reading (Higher education) Critical thinking
- Subject
- Teachers -- Training of -- Namibia
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MEd
- Identifier
- vital:1912
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007162
- Description
- This thesis reports on a responsive action research case study undertaken to teach student teachers to read critically. I undertook this research to gain a basic knowledge about critical reading as well as to form a knowledge base that would enable me to teach it effectively. First, I gave students a diagnostic assessment activity, analyzed the result and established the students’ ability to read a text critically. After I had established the students’ strengths, weaknesses, and the requirements to move students from their existing critical reading competency to an improved one, I reviewed the literature to provide me with a theory of teaching critical reading. The lessons were then planned and taught. The lessons; focus group interviews; researcher’s diary; students’ reflections and non-participant observer comments formed the data of the study. The data were analyzed using the framework of “what went well”, “what did not go well” and “what needs to be improved if the lessons were to be repeated”. The main purpose was to address the goals of the research, which were to find effective ways of teaching critical reading, appropriate critical reading materials, and to identify any pedagogic shortcomings. The 30 students who took part in this research were third-year students studying English Second language and Mother tongue pedagogies to become specialists in the teaching of both at Junior Secondary level (grades 8 – 10). The study was guided by constructivist theory, which underpins learner-centred education, which continues to inform and shape the development of curricula in Namibia.
- Format
- 174 leaves, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Education, Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Dikuwa, Alexander
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