Facilitating ownership in visual communications learning : a lecture's self-study.
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2014
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Abstract
This self-study focuses on investigating and exploring my teaching and learning philosophy
and my role as a teaching and learning facilitator in a private tertiary institution, and how that
role critically empowers students to shift their attitude and take ownership of their own
learning. My motivation and rationale for conducting this self-study is in response to what I
had observed as a disconnection between my teaching practice and the learning attitudes of
my students. I used Personal History Self-study and Developmental Portfolio Self-study
methodologies to explore and reflect on my early educational teaching and learning
experiences and my lived teaching and learning practice. My aim was to identify whether or
not my lecturing practice encouraged or discouraged the learning ownership of my students.
In this study I made use of ‘memory work’ as the primary method for generating data for my
study. The data sources I utilised were – letter writing, memory drawing, and artefact
retrieval, such as photographs and actual objects. These sources assisted me in reflecting on
educational contexts and the people that have made a significant impact on my teaching and
learning experiences. From these self-study methodologies, I formulated teaching and
learning principles that speak to and reflect my teaching and learning philosophy and
ideology and the implications they have for enhancing students teaching and learning
experiences. Thus, I have learned that I needed to be critically aware of my teaching
behaviour and therefore proactively change my practice in order to foster healthy
interpersonal relationships that empower and emancipate my students in their teaching and
learning experiences. Through this study, I became aware that a self-study methodology is a
lifelong learning tool that is essential for teacher development.
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M. Ed. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 2014.
Keywords
Visual perception., Interpersonal communication., Visual education., Visual communication., Teaching--Aids and devices., Theses--Education.