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The Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

Title of Presentation:

Using Pecha Kucha as a psycho-educational facilitation tool for training school counsellors

Summary of Invitation:

The CTL hereby invites you to a lunch-hour “padkos session" as part of the AUXIN Project. The AUXIN Project aims to create growth opportunities for SU lecturers.

Title and Name of Presenter(s):

Dr L Damons; Ms C Jacobs and Dr L Dreyer

 Short Biography:

The presenters are lecturers in the Department of Educational Psychology in the Faculty of Education. They are involved in the training of teachers and are all educational psychologists.

Blurb

The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) requires BEd Hons (Educational Psychology) students to provide psycho-education. The rationale for this research is that students go beyond the time limit they have. This is problematic as the gap between presentation and engagement compromises authentic learning. The purpose of this research was to introduce students to Pecha Kucha (PK) as an alternative form of psycho-educational presentation. PK is a novel and ingenious PowerPoint presentation format that contains twenty slides with visuals and minimal text, presented in twenty seconds (Murugaiah, 2016). This research is situated in a professional learning community (PLC) theoretical framework. There is international consensus that PLC creates opportunities for sustainable reflexive praxis that promote pragmatic co-construction of knowledge and the ability to critically reflect and creatively use strategies to problem solving in a process of continuous learning (Du Four, 2004; Mezirow, 1990). This interpretive qualitative research was conducted within a participatory action research (PAR) design. It was based on the epistemological assumptions that are social constructivist in nature (Creswell, 2007). The ontology of social constructivism is that reality is socially constructed, which will encourage reflexive praxis of critical skills of the responsive counsellor (Denzin & Lincoln, 2011).

Research question: How do trainee counsellors experience Pecha Kucha as a facilitation tool for psychoeducation with learners of varying ages in schools?

This purposive sample constituted of voluntary participants enrolled in the BEd Hons (Educational Psychology) programme at a university. Data was collected through participant generated artefacts and a focus group reflection. An iterative data analysis method was used whereby data was collected with the aid of the ATLAS.ti computer program. The results indicated that the students found that it took longer to prepare a PK presentation. The use of PK encouraged interactive participation and improved information recall.

Conclusions: PK has the potential to be useful in enhancing learning and in individual and collective capacity building within a PLC.

Implications: PAR can be a valuable research methodology to promote teacher/counsellor development within a PLC. The significance of this research lies in its exploration of new methods to foster a culture of creative critical engagement with academic context.

Key Words: Pecha-Kucha; professional learning community; participatory-action research

Date of Presentation: 26^th of February 2019

Time: 12:45 – 13:45

Venue: Den Bosch, 41 Victoria Street (opposite House Skuilhoek and directly behind the Conservatoire)

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Enquiries: Ms Nothemba Nqayi, nothemban@sun.ac.za 021 808 3717

Cancellations:

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More Information:

A podcast will be available on the CTL website after the session: www.sun.ac.za/ctl