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INTRODUCTION:

Foreword

Experienced educators understand the very complex nature of students learning. Teachers and trainers develop classroom practices and negotiate curriculum in an effort to enhance student learning, though it is virtually impossible to control what student learns. Even when teachers and trainers structure lessons and curriculum to promote learning for all students, each student still constructs his/her own unique meaning to the lesson.

Teachers and Trainer have some control over what they plan to teach but have far less control over what students learn.

Constructivist learning theory suggests that learners are active participants who pursue areas of knowledge based on their interest and a need to know. Given the nature of the learner, the trainer is viewed as facilitator, who structures the learning environment so that student can actively construct knowledge.

Dar es Salaam Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication is one of the four Institutions of TUPOSE POLYTECHNICS LIMITED; others are Tanzania Institute of Laws and Administration, Institute of Diplomacy – Morogoro and Iringa Institute of Medical Science; all Considers five central tenets of constructivism that are useful in understanding productive teacher/trainer behavior in the classroom, and it is obviously that this influence all learning arena, in and out of the classroom. These are:-

· Constructivist teachers seek to understand their students.

· Constructivist teachers/trainer plan lessons to challenge student’s understanding the students.

· Constructivist teachers/trainer understands that the curriculum must be relevant to the students.

· Constructivist teachers/trainer plan instruction holistically and relate details to the large pictures.

· Constructivist teachers/trainer assess student learning in the context of daily classroom experiences.

In the Globalization interaction the needs for intense preparation is inevitable, otherwise the society that remain to drug feet, will be left out and eventually perish, in term of norm, cultural artifacts and attitude, morally and even physical appearance.

Our training in Journalism and Mass Communication intends to enlighten the novices especially youth to work up and start to address themselves to the magnitude of the problem, they have to understand that even in rural areas where tradition healers was long protected is now beginning to weather away.

They must now and not later start to engage in rural reporting in order to protect and preserve the remaining little identity of cultural heritage or face the consequences, because the environment is no longer conducive and positively propagated any more.

The unemployed semi skilled rural society, must also be approached in order to bring needed attention to them of modern information Technology, so that, they understand what is going on in the outside world, hence be able to learn and understand negative side of copying and pasting these foreign cultural elements in their society knowingly or unknowingly.

Please remember this important saying:

‘We are here to bring the church in the village’ will you join us?

Mr. ABBAS SALUM KIKUNILE

MANAGING DIRECTOR,

DIJMC