Journal of Advances in Education and Philosophy (JAEP)
Volume-5 | Issue-07 | 205-215
Original Research Article
Pedagogical Challenges and Opportunities during COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from the Prospective Teachers and Teacher Educators
Rajkumar Nanaware, Neha Sharma, Rajkumar Nanaware
Published : July 24, 2021
Abstract
The present quantitative survey study comprising primary source of data conducted in southern state of India during the first wave and first quarter of COVID-19 pandemic to investigate the Teacher Educators’ and Prospective Teachers’ presuppositions, beliefs, and emotions on the sudden switch on to the online mode of teaching. During the precautionary lockdown, everything came to a halt and the education sector was not an exception and could not be separated. It looked initially the teachers themselves appeared apprehensive about the platforms and techniques of online teaching. It was the biggest challenge for the teachers to convince themselves first and get on to the job. The sole idea was not only to compare the two different ways of teaching (online and face to face) but also to investigate the lessons learnt by Teacher Educators and Teacher Trainees in this regard and its implications to higher education pedagogy along with the administrative and tech-savvy skills.An Opinionnaire comprising two sets each for prospective teachers and teacher educators were designed and data collected through online from 144 Prospective Teachers and Teacher Educators based on emotions, their motives for participation in the academic vis-a-vis curricular programs and the support system provided by the Management in Teaching-Learning Processes.The analysis indicated that the virtual mode successfully helped all teacher educators and prospective teachers to improve upon and transform online teaching into interactive TLP and expected learning outcome-based teaching through various online platforms during COVID-19 pandemic.