Teaching Then
Teaching then is understood as a reference to what is referred to in the literature on teaching and learning in higher education as traditional approaches to teaching. This type of teaching was concerned with the transmission of content, variously understood as transmitting knowledge or information. It was usually teacher- centred. In higher education, this was predominantly by lecturing. Freire (1970) called transmissional teaching the banking approach and recommended a dialogical approach instead. Barr and Tagg (1995) differentiated between the instruction paradigm and the learning paradigm. They underscored the fact that the instruction paradigm was teaching steeped in transmissional approaches. Learning-centred teaching was student-centred. So, teaching then was largely concerned with the transmission of knowledge, from the teacher to the students.
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References
Barr, R.B. & Tagg, J. (1995, November/December). From teaching to learning--a new paradigm for undergraduate education. Change, 27(6), 12-25. Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Continuum.
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