Demystifying research methods: everyday experiences as socio-cultural co(n)texts for effective research methods in teaching and learning in institutions of higher learning in Africa

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dc.contributor.authorBanda, Felix
dc.contributor.authorBanda, Dennis
dc.date.accessioned24/07/2018 17:23
dc.date.available24/07/2018 17:23
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe aim of the paper is to demonstrate how everyday knowledge can be incorporated into the classroom practices of institutions of higher learning to inform inclusive outcomes for linguistically and culturally diverse students. Using a metaphor of a marketer�s everyday interrogation of market conditions, a postgraduate guide to proposal writing and the funds of knowledge socio-cultural framework, we illustrate how forms of everyday and school knowledge can be used concurrently in the construction of socially responsive dialogic pedagogy. We argue for scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) in the South in which knowledge and theory generation is not a preserve of English only, but more so, of the complex interactions between English and the multiplicity of languages that students bring to the classroom. We conclude that SOTL in the South needs to be founded on the transfiguration of everyday knowledge and formal academic knowledge to facilitate the production of new and more powerful knowledge in multicultural postcolonial society. This would allow for inclusive pedagogy that caters for diversity in classrooms, and activity-based teaching and learning, networking students� experiential, community/home and formal academic knowledge in the construction of new and powerful knowledge.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBanda, F. & Banda, D. (2017). Demystifying research methods: everyday experiences as socio-cultural co(n)texts for effective research methods in teaching and learning in institutions of higher learning in Africa. SOTL in the South, 1(1): 60 - 77en_US
dc.identifier.issn2523-1154
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/3902
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherUniversity of Johannesbergen_US
dc.rightsSOTL in the South is an online, open-access and peer-reviewed journal. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectInclusive pedagogiesen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectMultilingualismen_US
dc.subjectAcademic knowledgeen_US
dc.titleDemystifying research methods: everyday experiences as socio-cultural co(n)texts for effective research methods in teaching and learning in institutions of higher learning in Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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