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Active Citizens' Formation through Social Studies Pedagogical Practices: Perspectives of Teachers and Learners from Selected Secondary Schools in Malawi
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Kae Yoshino – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
This article identifies the challenges of developing active citizens based on the latest revised social studies curriculum in Malawi (2015) in the context of Malawi's secondary school classrooms. By using collected data from interviews with teachers and students and classroom observation, the paper examines the extent to which social studies…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students
Schoolgirl Pregnancy, Dropout or Pushout?: An Ubuntucentric Re-Construction of the Education for Student Mothers in Malawi
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Chinkondenji, Pempho – Gender and Education, 2022
This critical phenomenological study investigates the lived experiences of young women returning to secondary school after pregnancy in Malawi. Through the lens of "Ubuntu," an African philosophy on humanness, the article conducts an analysis of the driving and restraining forces affecting student mothers' schooling experience. The data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Parenthood, Adolescents, African Culture
Using Video as Pedagogy for Globally Connected Learning about the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
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Rowan, Diana; Kabwira, Davie; Mmatli, Tlamelo; Rankopo, Morena; Long, Dennis D. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2012
How might U.S. social work students' perceptions of HIV/AIDS differ from those of social work students in sub-Saharan Africa? Furthermore, what can students learn from hearing how students from other countries view them? Social work students in the United States, Botswana, and Malawi were video-recorded; they then viewed the videos of students at…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Attitudes of Malawian Secondary School Pupils to Two Programmed Learning Tasks
Lawless, C. J. – West African Journal of Education, 1975
Two experiments investigated individual and paired use of programs and the effects of constructed and multiple choice responding across four categories of learning. Attitudes were very favorable toward programmed learning, declined significantly with longer exposure, and then leveled off. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: African Culture, Learning Modules, Programed Instruction, Secondary Education