Annales de l’université d’Alger
Volume 34, Numéro 5, Pages 981-1000
2020-12-31

The Synergy Between Role Modelling And Great Teaching: Combining Science And Art

Authors : Fersaoui Imane .

Abstract

This is a theoretical, descriptive, and qualitative study about great teaching. Undeniably, learning to teach competently comes through training and experience. This study suggests that it can also happen through observing great teachers, i.e. through role modelling. What is the synergy between great teaching and role modelling? Can great teachers be role models to others? How much is the observation of role models effective in learning to teach? And in general, how does role modelling work? The investigation of these questions is done through analysing five role models using Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory, Humanism, and learning differentiation. These role models are real life teachers who have inspired the movies and whose examples have proved beneficial to many teachers, trainees, and learners. This paper describes how they teach revealing in the process some characteristics and practices of great teaching. It attempts to combine science, art, and role modelling in order to detect and uncover some similarities in great teacher models.

Keywords

Great teaching – Role modelling – Social Learning Theory (SLT) – Humanism – Learning Differentiation