A philosophy for teaching in this strange place.

REFLECTIVE learning; PHILOSOPHY of teaching; HUMANISTIC education; PSYCHOLOGY of students; EDUCATIONAL planning

Lecturing can be positively regarded as a practice by which students can be treated with respect in educational processes which grant them freedom to pursue and acquire new knowledge that meets their needs. Lecturing can also be negatively conceived as a practice which others students and positions them as people who deserve to be chided and harangued towards new knowledge. This negative conception is magnified in this strange place where what is taught to overly large classes offensively propagates colonial and apartheid schemata, while failing to advance the development needs of students. My teaching philosophy is a humanistic response to the difficulties of teaching in this strange circumstance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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