GUIDED LEARNING PEDAGOGY OR MECH: AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE LECTURE FOR TEACHING KNOWLEDGE AT UNIVERSITIES IN AFRICA

The paper presented hereby, aims to propose an original method, the guided learning pedagogy, also called Méthode d’Enseignement des Connaissances selon Hounmènou, MECH, (or Hounmènou Knowledge Teaching Method), as an alternative to the magisterial lecture method, in teaching knowledge, during the new university age characterized, in the whole word, and particularly in Africa, by the necessities of modernization and improvement of the quality of the teaching. After he has pointed out the unsuitability of the old magisterial lecture method in a context within barely every university are using the course book as a learning tool, the author clarifies the guided learning pedagogy as an interactive method, and some of its academic advantages for students, based on experimental results.