The relevance of lay knowledge application in an educational milieu: A critical analysis of Students’ behaviour at the University of Fort hare, Alice Campus.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 2
Abstract
The rationale behind the conduction of this study was to emphasise the importance of the use of lay knowledge by students in a higher learning institution, at the University of Fort Hare. When students leave their homes for varsity, they tend to forget to apply conventional way of living and practical wisdom they acquired from their ecologies. Instead, they develop dogmastic behaviours owing to learned behaviour at varsity. Such negative behaviours result to negative repercussions on the psycho-social wellbeing of students. The study employed qualitative research methods. Participant and non-participant observation, face-to-face semistructured interviews and systematic literature review were adopted as instruments for data collection.Purposive sampling was opted to recruit 12 students who experienced some of the repercussions for not using lay knowledge. The data was analysed though the use of thematic analysis. The ages of research participants ranged between the ages of 20-40. The participants comprised of 6 male and 6 female students. Each and every one of them freely participated on the study. The results of the study revealed that some of the students consume large numbers of alcohol; associate themselves with wrong people, academically perform badly; suffer from depression and are at high risk of crime. Reflecting on the results of this paper, there is a need for interventions aimed at restricting students in engaging to unconventional behaviours. Such programmes could prevent students in engaging to behaviours that put their psycho-social wellbeing at risk.
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Azola Mmangaliso
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