BTE2601-Assignment-Pack-2023.
,BTE2601 Assignment 02 - 2023 ( Compulsory) 2
ANSWER
a) Rote Learning - is the process of memorizing information based on repetition.
Rote learning enhances students’ ability to quickly recall basic facts and helps
develop foundational knowledge of a topic. Examples of rote learning include
memorizing multiplication tables or the periodic table of elements.
b) Pedagogical Context Knowledge - Pedagogical content knowledge is a type of
knowledge that is unique to teachers, and is based on the manner in which teachers
relate their pedagogical knowledge (what they know about teaching) to their subject
matter knowledge (what they know about what they teach).
c) Pedagogy - Pedagogy is a processed approach to teaching something. For
example, if you took piano lessons from a pianist trained in piano pedagogy, they
would know what to teach you first, then second, then third- leading to you knowing
how to play the piano. It would be pretty structured and sequential.
d) Epistemologies - the theory of knowledge. It is concerned with the mind's relation
to reality. What is it for this relation to be one of knowledge? Do we know things? And
if we do, how and when do we know things?
e) Empirical - based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience
rather than theory or pure logic.
, BTE2601 Assignment 02 - 2023 ( Compulsory) 3
ANSWER
General pedagogical knowledge describes the knowledge of principles and
strategies of classroom management and organisation that transcend subject
matter.
Content knowledge comprises the knowledge of subject matter and its
organising structures.
Pedagogical content knowledge represents the blending of content and
pedagogy into an understanding of how particular topics, problems, or issues are
organised for instruction. It was described by Shulman as “that special amalgam
of content and pedagogy that is uniquely the province of teachers, their own
special form of professional understanding” (1987, p. 8[17])
Curriculum knowledge includes the subject- and grade-specific knowledge of
materials and programmes designed for the teaching of particular topics and
subjects.
Knowledge of learners and their characteristics subsumes the knowledge about
cognitive, physical, emotional, social, historical and cultural factors, which
account for students’ needs and interests.
Knowledge of educational contexts ranges from an understanding of teaching
contexts and the social dynamics of classes and groups to a wider
understanding of the governance and financing of schools and the
characteristics of the school and community culture.
Knowledge of educational purposes, ends and values and their philosophical
and historical foundations includes teachers’ knowledge about the wider
purposes of school and the perceived needs of learners as well as the potential
value of education to society as a whole.
,BTE2601 Assignment 02 - 2023 ( Compulsory) 2
ANSWER
a) Rote Learning - is the process of memorizing information based on repetition.
Rote learning enhances students’ ability to quickly recall basic facts and helps
develop foundational knowledge of a topic. Examples of rote learning include
memorizing multiplication tables or the periodic table of elements.
b) Pedagogical Context Knowledge - Pedagogical content knowledge is a type of
knowledge that is unique to teachers, and is based on the manner in which teachers
relate their pedagogical knowledge (what they know about teaching) to their subject
matter knowledge (what they know about what they teach).
c) Pedagogy - Pedagogy is a processed approach to teaching something. For
example, if you took piano lessons from a pianist trained in piano pedagogy, they
would know what to teach you first, then second, then third- leading to you knowing
how to play the piano. It would be pretty structured and sequential.
d) Epistemologies - the theory of knowledge. It is concerned with the mind's relation
to reality. What is it for this relation to be one of knowledge? Do we know things? And
if we do, how and when do we know things?
e) Empirical - based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience
rather than theory or pure logic.
, BTE2601 Assignment 02 - 2023 ( Compulsory) 3
ANSWER
General pedagogical knowledge describes the knowledge of principles and
strategies of classroom management and organisation that transcend subject
matter.
Content knowledge comprises the knowledge of subject matter and its
organising structures.
Pedagogical content knowledge represents the blending of content and
pedagogy into an understanding of how particular topics, problems, or issues are
organised for instruction. It was described by Shulman as “that special amalgam
of content and pedagogy that is uniquely the province of teachers, their own
special form of professional understanding” (1987, p. 8[17])
Curriculum knowledge includes the subject- and grade-specific knowledge of
materials and programmes designed for the teaching of particular topics and
subjects.
Knowledge of learners and their characteristics subsumes the knowledge about
cognitive, physical, emotional, social, historical and cultural factors, which
account for students’ needs and interests.
Knowledge of educational contexts ranges from an understanding of teaching
contexts and the social dynamics of classes and groups to a wider
understanding of the governance and financing of schools and the
characteristics of the school and community culture.
Knowledge of educational purposes, ends and values and their philosophical
and historical foundations includes teachers’ knowledge about the wider
purposes of school and the perceived needs of learners as well as the potential
value of education to society as a whole.
