Teaching in higher education institutions in Algeria: A clash of paedagogies?

Abstract

Algerian teaching teachers, like their counterparts in most Muslims countries, face a paedagogical dilemma between, on the one hand, Islamic traditional paedagogy, on the other, Western paedagogy. The paper shows to what extent Islamic paedagogy has impacted on teachers’ paedagogy in Algerian universities despite efforts to keep up with modern teaching theories. It shows also that Algerian teacher’s folk paedagogy, mostly based on traditional practices, influences teaching. Given this context, teachers have developed a hybrid paedagogy based on improvisation and their folk paedagogy in the absence of a formal training scheme. In this apparent clash of paedagogy, the paper argues for a cross-cultural paedagogy.