Pedagogical Challenges Among Fresh Instructors A Case of Mekele University

Abstract

Though our history of educating can take us back a century, there are
still a lot of problems encountering the system. Throughout the life
span of modern education in Ethiopia, enriching professionalism has
never had a significant place. Due to lack of competence, we have
been witnessing a decline in the quality of our education which in turn
leads towards a fa ilure to produce skilled manpower.
It would, perhaps, become a real tiresome task to try to discover and
analyze the problems of our educational system; besides, it is not the
aim of this short report to assess this vast issue. Rather the major
objective of this paper is targeted towards analyzing the role of
experience in the teaching and learning process. Moreover, it will try
to address the existing problem of running the instructional process
using teachers who do not have the actual exposure to teaching and
those without any pedagogical background. Finally, the report tries to
examine the impact of such practices on the teaching and learning
process by taking the particular case of Mekele University.
Higher education has a very crucial role in the development of any
country. As the major source of skilled manpower, higher education
has a multi-faceted effect on any society. Be it politically,
economically, culturally, psychologically, higher education is at the
heart of any nation.
In spite of all these, institutions of higher education have their own
failures and drawbacks. When we come to our particular case, where
higher education is at its infancy, we observe several problems.