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Using standardised rubrics, portfolios and personal learning plans in the workplace
No full textThe workplace is a complex place, physically identifiable with visible, structural components such as buildings, infrastructure, and specialist equipment; yet actual operational activities, individual performance and learning are more difficult to define. In the workplace knowing, applying, innovating and learning are bound by, and interwoven with, the situation, in which they take place. Individuals construct knowledge, acquire skills and change behaviour conscious that their colleagues and their organisations understand and share the context and the process of knowledge acquisition. This means a significant percentage of an individual’s learning occurs in informal settings, such as work-related discussions, informal feedback on performance, stakeholder reactions to actions, or formal evaluations of performance. This means the focus of learning in the workplace is on action and doing, on the acquisition of work-placed specialised knowledge, on competence development and on individual performance. In this environment the main responsibility for learning, for improving performance, rests with the individual. They are tasked to confirm current competencies and capabilities (look back: Review) and identify the competencies and capabilities they need to acquire to improve their performance (look forward: Predict). This two stage process generates an individualised pathway of development, a personal learning plan. This personal learning plan is flexible yet context bound, it identifies the need for learning in identified contexts and articulates how that need will be addressed. Over a number of years the Waikato Institute of Technology has been investigating how organisations can first, use information and technology (IT) systems, tools and training to enable credentialing bodies and employers to assess the current capabilities of its members and/or employee’s and secondly, how competency matrices can be used to facilitate the development of an individual capability development plans. These investigations are based on three interwoven elements. Element one is focused on the design and implementation of an IT evidence-based assessment and personal development systems. Element two is focused on how the systems are populated with validated evidence and how that evidence is then presented for external review. Element three is focused using external reports to generate individualised learning plans. This presentation will illustrate, through authentic examples, how standardised rubrics, portfolios and personal learning plans have been used in a national credentialing agency and international engineering firm. Brown, J., Collins, A., & Duguid, P. (1989). Situated cognition and the culture of learning. Educational Researcher, 18 (1), 32-42
Mercer, C. (2015). The impact of non-motor manifestations of Parkinson’s disease on partners: understanding and application of chronic sorrow theory. Journal of Primary Health Care, 7(3), 221-227 2015;7(3):221–227.
Get PDFParkinson’s disease (PD) can cause many emotions, including grief and a sense of isolation for both the person with PD (referred to as Parkinsonian) and their partner. Such ongoing grief and emotional turmoil can be termed chronic sorrow. The aim of this research is to present accounts of
partners’ perspectives, analysed in the context of chronic sorrow theory, to offer health professionals an insight into the impact of non-motor PD symptoms on partners.
METHODS: A group of partners of Parkinsonians provided the data through individual stories. These stories were ubjected to thematic analysis, using a seven-step process leading to the establishment of themes. Caregiver burden and chronic sorrow is not related to providing physical care, but the emotional care of attempting to minimise the effect of PD, coping with disturbance to sleep, and helping the Parkinsonian to maintain as much independence as possible. Contributors to this article found chronic sorrow theory provided a framework for understanding their motions. Sharing their experiences with others provided an opportunity to be heard, and enabled them to make sense of individual situations. Chronic sorrow theory provides a useful framework for both partners of Parkinsonians in understanding their emotional responses, and for health professionals in considering the challenges partners face in coping with living with a person with PD
Towards a model of the human face
Get PDFAn overview of the research carried out at Wintec in collaboration with Auckland Uni and UBC on developing a computer model of the human face
NZ ITP Sports Research Symposium 2015
Get PDFWintec welcomes you to join us in Hamilton, for the 2015 New Zealand ITP Sports Research Symposium. This is an excellent opportunity to meet other colleagues, academics and industry stakeholders and to engage in dynamic discussions about the sport, recreation, physical activity and health sector. It is a time for us to learn, network with colleagues and friends and have an opportunity to reignite passion for our daily professional lives. Join us
Legendary Divas - New Plymouth
Get PDFDirection of a regional musical theatre production, Legendary Divas, 4th Wall Theatre, New Plymouth , 201
Art NZ 156, 2015: Exhibition review: Seung Yul Oh
No full textReview of Seung Yul Oh, "HaaPoom", Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, 29 August-8 November 2015, published in "Art New Zealand", No. 156, Summer 2015-16, pp. 38-39. http://www.art-newzealand.com/current.htm
Art NZ 156, 2015: Meditations on Materiality: An Interview with Marte Szirmay
No full text"Meditations on Materiality: An Interview with Marte Szirmay", Art New Zealand, No. 156, Summer 2015-16, pp. 48-55. http://www.art-newzealand.com/current.html Interview with Hungarian-born New Zealand sculptor Marte Szirmay (b. 1946). Introduction to the article: "In recent weeks, the refugee crisis has dominated news sites and social media. Hungary's extreme right-wing government has been ruthless in its response, putting up barbed wire fences in an attempt to stop Syrian, Afghan and Iraqi refugees entering the country from Serbia and Croatia. In 1956, Hungarians associated with the revolution against a Soviet-imposed communist regime were fleeing their own country. Ten-year-old Marte Szirmay crossed the border with her family on 6 December, and arrived in New Zealand in April 1957. Over the course of a life dedicated to sculpture, she seems to have, as it were, flown under the radar. I interviewed her at her house in Mount Roskill, where, from the second-storey lounge, I could gaze serenely over Auckland and the Manukau Harbour, while Marte seemed to be constantly under attack from an elderly cat. 'Do you feel at home in New Zealand?' I asked.
What are the practical considerations for applying Maori models of health into non-Maori health programme's in NZ?
Get PDFSouthern Celts: Narrative as method and text
Get PDFThis article explores the use of narrative as method and text in a practice-led narrative inquiry which explores how people with Irish and Scottish cultural backgrounds live out their connections to the northern hemisphere homelands of Scotland and Ireland, in Aotearoa New Zealand. It analyses eight excerpts from interview narratives using Clandinin and Connelly’s (2000) three frames of narrative
inquiry: time (past, present and future), place, and the intersection of the personal and the social, to illustrate the discursive construction of cultural identities
(Fong & Chuang 2004, Weedon 2004). It discusses the use of autoethnography(Muncey 2010, Ellis & Bochner 2000, Reed-Danahay 1997) and the value of arts based practices (Butler-Kisber 2010, Leavy 2009) including song and poetry in the representation of interview narratives. Finally, it argues that offering longer narratives, free of the intrusive voice of the analytical researcher, readers may be
encouraged to bring their own experiences to their engagement with the text and to think with rather than about the narratives (Bochner & Riggs 2014). Through this
process they might gain deeper insights into the individual, social and political factors that have shaped the lives of individuals and communities in Aotearoa
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Collaborative Research Development Agreement between Maria Fernanda de Mello Costa (WINTEC), and the Brazilian Jockey CLub (JCB)
Get PDFThis agreement establishes an official research collaboration agreement that will create numerous opportunities for advancement of scientific knowledge in the fields of equine veterinary medicine and equine sports medicine, through data gathering and analysis. So far this has resulted in four proposed research topics with associated manuscripts to be developed