PRESENT PRACTICES IN TEACHING OF COMMERCE

MODULE 5; 

PRESENT PRACTICES IN TEACHING OF COMMERCE

 5.1critical pedagogy and problem posing education 

                  Critical pedagogy

-         Critical pedagogy is a teaching approach

-         Theory and practice of helping students achieve critical consciousness

-         Critical pedagogy was heavily influenced by the works of Paulo freire

-         Education is dialogic exchange between the teacher and the students m, where in both learn, questions, reflect and participate in meaning making

-         To create new forms of knowledge

-         To raise questions about the relationships between the margins and centres of power in schools

-         To eliminate the difference between high and popular culture

Role of schools

-         Teachers and members of the community become co-owner of the school

-         They collectively determine how the school is to be organized , what is to be taught and what role the school should play in the affairs of the community

Role of teacher

-         Teacher should construct curricula that draw upon the student cultures

-         Teacher must be able to critically analyze the ideologies, values, and interests that inform their role as teacher and the cultural politics they promote in the classroom

-         Teacher should be able to think critically, locate themselves in their  own histories and exercise moral and public responsibility in their role as active critics and transformative intellectuals

-         Teacher is an authority over his subject matter

Role of curriculum

-         It is based on social needs and aspirations

-         It may recognize the importance of cultural difference of individuals communicating across various social and political borders

Role of learner

-he is an active participant in the process of teaching and learning

-he actively interacts with peers

-he forms his own idea, beliefs, and opinion

Limitation

-         It requires broad minded teacher

-         It is difficult to frame suitable curriculum

-         The language used by critical pedagogues is so ambiguous that the average teacher cannot understand many of the basic critical premises made

Problem –posing education

Coined by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire

-         His 1970book pedagogy of the oppressed

-         Emphasizes critical thinking

-         Culture of silence

-         Problem –posing education is the path to critical consciousness

-         Problem –posing involves ‘listening, dialogue, and action

Steps

-         Describe the content

-         Define the problem

-         Personalize the problem

-         Discuss the problem

-         Discuss alternatives to the problem s

5.2 Review on the latest happenings in the State Higher Secondary schooling procedure

-         Grading system

-         Continues and comprehensive evaluation

-         Single window system for admission

-         Problem posing education

-         Issue based education

-         Constructivist approach in education

-         Use of edu-bundu

-         Mental processed based valuation

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ALL THE BEST

Use of ICT in class room, e-learning method, smart classroom..