Scaling up the Pedagogy Model

Abstract

Active teaching and learning in a manner that engages industry in students learning processes is viewed as a solution to the challenge of skills mismatch. Many academic institutions in the world are therefore shifting from traditional teacher-centrered learning to this mode of teaching and learning. Tumaini University Dar es Salaam College (TUDARCo) is one of the higher learning institutions in Tanzania that has remarkable success in this endeavour. Through the IRIS project TUDARCO has developed and insitigated an active teaching and learning approach which is a blend of the Tanzanian and Finnish approaches named the FinTan pedagogy model. This chapter focuses on the scaling up of this model. It discusses the background of the development of the model as part of the IRIS project and the scale up processes as part of a subsequent project called SUSIE in two other universities in Tanzania, Mwenge Catholic University (MWECAU) and Moshi Cooperative University (MoCU). It also highlights the experiences and feelings of the stakeholders who used the model.