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Perspective Chapter: Will the Traditional Teacher Education Models Stand the Pandemics and Cyclones?

In: Higher Education - Reflections From the Field - Volume 1

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  • Lazarus Obed Livingstone Obed Livingstone Banda
  • Jane Thokozani Banda

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The chapter portrays the impact of COVID-19 and tropical cyclones on scrambled teaching practice supervision in the Southern African Development Community countries. Focus group discussions with student-teachers and field supervisors revealed that the pandemic and the natural disasters highly hampered teaching practice supervision quality. Delayed commissioning of the exercise due to damaged infrastructure and minimal physical mobility between the college and the practice schools impacted the frequency and spacing of field visits. Neither of the players preferred the scrambled supervision model. The chapter emphasizes that face-to-face traditional teacher education methods cannot absolutely stand the taste of pandemics and tropical cyclones. Resilient higher education institutions and requisite structures are key to sustainable quality teacher education amidst cyclones and pandemics.

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  • Lazarus Obed Livingstone Obed Livingstone Banda & Jane Thokozani Banda, 2023. "Perspective Chapter: Will the Traditional Teacher Education Models Stand the Pandemics and Cyclones?," Chapters, in: Lee Waller & Sharon Waller (ed.), Higher Education - Reflections From the Field - Volume 1, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:292576
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.108183
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    higher education; COVID-19; teacher education; teaching practice; SADC; Malawi;
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    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions

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