Shifting from face - to - face to online teaching and learning: Growth opportunities experienced by Vanuatu primary school teachers

Morris, Effrel Elizabeth Toara and Mwaraksurmes, Amton (2024) Shifting from face - to - face to online teaching and learning: Growth opportunities experienced by Vanuatu primary school teachers. International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 23 (2). pp. 36-47. ISSN 1443-1475

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Abstract

Opportunities for teachers’ growth and development are important to support sustainable education in Vanuatu, Oceania, and beyond. Recently, in Vanuatu, as elsewhere, online learning has become significant, and its occasion under COVID19 circumstances has been portrayed as a disruption. This study investigated the growth opportunities experienced by Vanuatu in-service primary school teachers
during the shift from face-to-face teaching to online teaching and learning in the COVID-19 era. The research engaged sixty teachers across the six provinces of
Vanuatu, exploring opportunities from both social and cognitive perspectives. Diverse growth opportunities in the form of sustaining learning benefits were uncovered. These included developing skills in independent learning, using
available ICT devices, and designing personal study approaches. Hence, what may have been seen as a disruption is partly revealed as providing opportunities for
professional growth and learning for the participants. Understanding growth opportunities, especially in circumstances of change, is important when approaching issues of sustainable education in Vanuatu and is relevant in Oceania and elsewhere.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2361 Curriculum
Divisions:	School of Pacific Arts, Communication and Education (SPACE)
Depositing User:	Amton Mwaraksurmes
Date Deposited:	28 Nov 2024 22:52
Last Modified:	28 Nov 2024 22:52
URI:	https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/14646

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