AN ANALYTICAL STUDY ON PEDAGOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES OF TEACHER EDUCATORS IN EDUCATION COLLEGES
Abstract
- This paper intended to study pedagogical knowledge and practices of teacher educators in education colleges, There are two phases in this study, namely, quantitative study (questionnaire survey) and qualitative study (interviews and observation). Descriptive research method was used in this study. Two sets of questionnaires developed by the researcher: questionnaire for teacher educators’ pedagogical knowledge and questionnaire for teacher educators’ practices concerning their pedagogical knowledge were used. The reliability coefficient (Cronbach α) was 0.98 for the questionnaire for teacher educators’ practices. In qualitative study, interview and observation were conducted. Out of twenty-five Education Colleges, three hundred and twenty teacher educators from eight Education Colleges were selected as subjects by the use of equal-sized stratified sampling method. Among them, twenty four teacher educators were selected as participants in qualitative study. Item Percent Correct (IPC), Descriptive statistics, Independent Samples t-Test, One-way ANOVA, Tukey HSD test, and multiple regression were used for the data analysis. The level of pedagogical knowledge and practices of teacher educators were found to be at satisfactory and above satisfactory except from three teacher educators who were at below satisfactory in pedagogical knowledge. There were statistically significant differences in pedagogical knowledge of teacher educators grouped by qualifications and teaching subject. Similarly, significant differences were found in teacher educators’ practices in groups divided by gender, age, position, and service. The first predictor affecting pedagogical knowledge was teaching subject and the second one is qualifications. The gap between knowledge and practice in some dimensions of pedagogical knowledge was suggested by qualitative findings.
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Year
- 2021
Author
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Khaing Khin Kyaw
Subject
- Educational Theory
Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)