Challenges of Blended Learning Pedagogy during Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case of Selected Secondary Schools of Livingstone District, Zambia
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: this article revealed some of the challenges of blended learning pedagogy during COVID-19 pandemic in three selected schools of Livingstone District, Zambia.The article uses a phenomenology research design to generate data.The target population included all the parents, school managers, teachers and pupils from the three selected schools of Livingstone District, Zambia while the sample size was 30 participants.The article was based on data derived from a face to face interview with 22 participants (Learners, Teachers and School Managers) while the remaining data was derived from the Focus Group Discussion with 8 parents all from the Parents Teacher Committees (PTCs).This article employed a qualitative approach to generate data.Inductive thematic analysis was used to analyse data because themes were strongly linked to data.The research used a non-probability sampling approach to select the working sample.In non-probability sampling, the researcher decides who ought to be included to take part in the study according to their relevance to help in answering the research questions.The article provides evidence that schools encountered various challenges related to online learning categorised under the following interlinked themes: COVID 19 pandemic, lack of technological infrastructures, poor Index Terms-Covid 19, Blended learning, Pandemigy, . I. INTRODUCTION After the global declaration of Coronavirus (COVID-19)pandemic on 30 January 2020 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) (Sohrabi, Alsafi, O"Neill, Kerwan and Al-Jabir 2020), all the educational institutions were forced to shut down.The pandemic affected all levels of global education systems from the pre-school to the university (Impey 2020, Panesar, Dodson, Lynch, Bryson-Cahn, Chew, and Dillon 2020).Similarly, on 18 March 2020, all institutions of learning in Zambia were placed on lock-down due to COVID-19 (Cabinet Office Circular Minute of , .
Institution: Kwame Nkrumah University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409364479