Open AccessCritical Emancipatory Research Approach to Enhance Performance Among Progressed Learners in Life Sciences
Author(s) -
Ndaba Xolisile,
Bekithemba Dube
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mediterranean journal of social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2039-9340
pISSN - 2039-2117
DOI - 10.36941/mjss-2021-0027
Subject(s) - emancipation , participatory action research , argument (complex analysis) , meaning (existential) , action research , psychology , thematic analysis , mathematics education , face (sociological concept) , pedagogy , sociology , computer science , social science , political science , qualitative research , medicine , politics , anthropology , law , psychotherapist
In this theoretical paper, we discuss critical emancipatory research (CER) as an approach to enhance performance among progressed learners in life sciences. Most of the progressed learners perform poorly in life science igniting the need to find alternatives to enhance the performance. We have earthed this paper in CER based on the values such emancipation, transformation and social justice which are pertinent to reinvent better performance in life science. To collect data, we used participatory action research ad used thematic approach to make meaning of the data. The finding of the paper is that progressed learners face various vulnerabilities, which impede their performance, necessitated a need to rethink approached used for teaching and learning. The main argument of the article is that CER has the impetus to change the progressed learners’ attitude, enhances effective communication and collaboration between the progressed learners, parents, teachers and the DBE to improve the academic performance of progressed learners in life sciences. Received: 2 May 2021 / Accepted: 15 June 2021 / Published: 8 July 2021