Introduction

Pedagogy involves the performance of teaching accompanied with theories and practices that shape it. It directly links the act of teaching with culture, structure and mechanisms of student or learner control. Pedagogy may also refer to the process by which teaching activities, interactions, and assignments are structured in accordance to ideas that develop out of theories1. Pedagogy is influential when it is responsive, dynamic and flexible2. Salvatori defines pedagogy as “reflexive praxis”3. According to Salvatori pedagogy must be reflective, implying “that a teacher should be able and willing to interrogate the reasons” for theory adoption and “to inform the possibility that a specific theory and the practice that implements it might not be effective at certain times or in certain circumstances”4. In other words, when teachers engage in reflexive cycles that encompasses theorizing, practical use of ideas, and evaluation of results in light of specific institutional contexts and student population, that’s when pedagogy is most effective. The theories and practices of pedagogy help students improve their learning experiences in a number of ways5.