26Jul 2017

STUDENTS? PERCEPTIONS OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES USED BY TUTORS IN UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA EXTENSION EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN LUSAKA DISTRICT.

  • Traditional Affairs Officer, Ministry of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs, Kazungula District.
  • Senior Lecturer, University of Zambia, Zambia.
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This study was a product of a Mixed methods Design. The universe population comprised all of the following: students that were enrolled in the UNZA extension education credit course in all the extension education centres within Lusaka District in the 2014/2015 academic year; the extension education centres within Lusaka District; and the graduates from the aforementioned courses and centres from the year 2013 to 2014. The study had a total sample of 130 in which 115 were students who were selected using convenient sampling procedure and 15 were graduates who were traced through snow ball sampling procedure. 2 out of 11 extension education centres within Lusaka District were purposively selected and all respondents were from these same centres. A semi-structured questionnaire and an interview guide were used to collect data from 115 sand 15 graduates respectively. The findings of this study elucidated that despite tutors in the UNZA extension education programme using a repertoire of different pedagogical strategies from both the teacher-centred and the student-centred approaches to teaching, instructor-centred (i.e. lecture and dictation) teaching techniques were the most dominant. It was also established that both learner-centred and teacher-centred teaching techniques were preferred by some students but most students preferred active teaching techniques more than the passive ones. This study therefore, recommended that the University of Zambia (UNZA), through the Department of Adult Education and Extension Studies (DAEES) should start providing refresher courses to tutors in extension education on adult education teaching techniques.

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[Davies Phiri and Wanga W. Chakanika. (2017); STUDENTS? PERCEPTIONS OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES USED BY TUTORS IN UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA EXTENSION EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN LUSAKA DISTRICT. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jul). 1876-1884] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Davies Phiri
Traditional Affairs Officer, Ministry of Chiefs and Traditional Affairs, Kazungula District, Zambia

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4915      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4915

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