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Education Quality and the Introduction of New Teaching Methods into Teacher Education

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A large number of teachers in schools are not aware that the use of a wider range of teaching methods can improve the quality of teaching and learning. This chapter shows how teachers who at first were using a limited number of teaching methods and who were later introduced to the use of a wider range of preferred new teaching methods became more reflective and effective practitioners. The chapter further shows how the use of an additional new sociocultural and structural educational quality framework has potential to improve teachers’ reflective practice and enhance the quality of environmental learning, making it also more relevant to the African teaching and learning context.

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  1. Natural Sciences Department, Mufulira College of Education, Mufulira, Zambia

    Evaristo Kalumba

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  1. Environmental Learning Resource Centre (ELRC), Education Department, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

    Heila Lotz-Sisitka

  2. School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia

    Overson Shumba

  3. Chief of Party: USAID, Strengthening Educational Performance Up (STEP-UP), Lusaka, Zambia

    Justin Lupele

  4. Faculty of Education, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

    Di Wilmot

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Kalumba, E. (2017). Education Quality and the Introduction of New Teaching Methods into Teacher Education. In: Lotz-Sisitka, H., Shumba, O., Lupele, J., Wilmot, D. (eds) Schooling for Sustainable Development in Africa. Schooling for Sustainable Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45989-9_16

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