Conception of Teaching: The Case of Higher Institutions' Instructors

Abstract

It is apparent that most instructors of higher institutions are not trained
to be teachers. Consequently, there is a limitation in their conception
of educational terms such as teaching. The writer of this article was
one of the participants of the Training Workshop Program on
Teaching and Learning in Higher Institutions that was held from
January 28 to February 19, 2002 and this training workshop gave me
a chance to learn that the concept of teaching was understood by the
majority of the participants in its limited sense. This was evident
whenever participants were asked to define teaching in the
discussions during the workshop. Their responses indicated that they
regarded teaching as the imparting or transmission of knowledge.
Thus, the purpose of this article is to comment on the drawbacks of
this limited conception of teaching based on personal experience