Document Type
Article
Department
Faculty of Health Sciences, East Africa
Abstract
Lecturers may be exposed to the same Academic Development Programme but their course of action at personal and professional level vary. In this paper, I analyze the lecturers’ contribution in shaping their learning to teach. I interviewed twenty-five lecturers in four private universities in Kenya using semi-structured interviews. The analysis showed that the onus to learn how to teach lies with the individual lecturer (agency) especially in contexts that lack a systematic approach to lecturers’ learning. Academic developers may be interested in understanding how the exercise of agency in learning how to teach leads to variations in lecturers’ actions.
Publication (Name of Journal)
International Journal for Academic Development
Recommended Citation
Omingo, M.
(2019). Lecturers learning to teach: the role of agency. International Journal for Academic Development, 24(2), 122-134.
Available at:
https://ecommons.aku.edu/eastafrica_fhs_fhs/16