Personal Theoretical Framework (PTF)
My PTF hinges on my commitment to productive and respectful relationships with my students, as well as a love of teaching. I hope to be able to work on my teaching over time such that it is both a science and an art. I also recognise the responsibility of a teacher or an educator to act for social change.
Paulo Freire (1998) says it all:
"The teaching task is above all a professional task that requires constant intellectual rigor and the stimulation of epistemological curiosity, of the capacity to love, of creativity, of scientific competence and the rejection of scientific reductionism. The teaching task also requires the capacity to fight for freedom, without which the teaching task becomes meaningless."
I also believe in constructivist teaching, as Piaget outlined, where the learner's own experiences are used as a base to further learning.
