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Paper Tile : Development of an Epistemological Model of Self-Directed Learning Package with Phenomenological Approach

Authors : Ms.Kalpana Chavan and Prof.Sybil Thomas

Abstract

Knowing and learning are important elements of human survival and growth. With the changing times, obsolete knowledge and ensuing education can become redundant or even a mockery. A curriculum based on knowledge as a product, as mere reproduction and the age-old establishment can lead to generations of learners incapacitated to addressing challenges of the changing world. The consequences of the rigid, and unchanging knowledge has been prolifically represented through the parable in the book called the Saber-Tooth Curriculum. Thus, the phenomenological approach towards knowledge and learning was used through the instructional design of self-directed learning package to delve deep into factors affecting knowledge and learning. The method used for the data collection was interview and reflective writing. The analysis of the response showed how the life-based experiences, connecting to real life and deconstructing set ideas can become engaging and empowering in knowledge acquiring and producing. With the basis of post-modernism thinking, deconstruction as a tool of teaching was used for understanding the conceptual as well as situational knowledge. The student-teachers while learning a unit in their course through deconstruction, also critiqued the epistemological understanding of learning and relearning. The open and axial coding paradigm was used to understand the perception of student-teachers towards role of learning as transformative or institutionalised. It was found that the student teachers through process of deconstruction could relook at knowledge and learning not as a set of established pre-determined body of knowledge but as evolving, changing and contextual. Thus, the Saber-tooth curriculum was rejected for an emerging, evolving, and empowering approach to learning.

Keywords: Knowledge, phenomenological approach, deconstruction, empowering, learning, postmodernism.

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Development of an Epistemological Model of Self-Directed Learning Package with Phenomenological Approach

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Title of the Journal : XAVIERIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE - A Peer Reviewed Interdisciplinary Journal.

Frequency : Biannual

eISSN No. : 2583-357X

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Publisher : St.Xavier’s Institute of Education, Mumbai

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Starting year : 2022

First Published : March 2022

Subject : Education - Interdisciplinary

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Vol. 1. Issue 2 published on 4th October 2022

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