Question on Questioning Skill of Health Educators in Nepal
- 1 Heath Education at Shahid Smriti Multiple Campus Chitwan, Affiliated to TU, Kirtipur, Nepal
- 2 Central Department of Education, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal
- 3 Nepal Family Development Foundation and Hope International College, Lalitpur, Nepal
Abstract
Health education is a behavioral science under faculty of education which includes the suffice courses on the use of questioning skills. This study was carried out to identify the knowledge of using the skill of questioning and its use in real classroom situations among health education teachers in education campuses where health education was taught at Bachelor and Master Levels. A qualitative phenomenological research design was applied to draw result. The 4 districts were selected from the Bagamati Province purposively and inclusive of geographic balance. Purposive sampling method was adopted to select teachers for in-depth interviews, classes for observation, and FGDs to assemble reliable and valid information for the study. Trustworthiness was maintained through consultation with experts, thick description, members check and credibility, and the methods triangulation was used to make data analysis rigorous. Though the sampled teachers had some pedagogical knowledge of questioning, this was insufficiently transferred into classroom instruction.
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