44 research outputs found
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: fly in league with the night Tate Britain, London : 2nd December 2020-31st May 2021
No full textKeynote Address at the PGCE Conference (Inclusion and Inspiration - Education for Social Justice): A conversation between author and lecturer Jeffrey Boakye and Educational Psychologist Dr. David Lamb
No full textDr. David Lamb and Jeffrey Boakye will explore various approaches to building positive, impactful relationships between educators and learners, with a focus on underpinning process and theory. The conversation will examine the practical application of educational psychology in school settings, looking at how individual teachers, students and wider teaching communities can benefit from a more profound understanding of relational and therapeutic practices. Video Link - https://video.manchester.ac.uk/faculties/52f9b4cd447aa2fbeb47d1926186f80b/9a786de9-de1d-43e2-92f4-f69046e4af3a/ This session was presented at the ‘PGCE Conference 2023: Inclusion and Inspiration - Education for Social Justice’
Keynote Address at the PGCE Conference (Inclusion and Inspiration - Education for Social Justice): A conversation between author and lecturer Jeffrey Boakye and Educational Psychologist Dr. David Lamb
No full text
Dr. David Lamb and Jeffrey Boakye will explore various approaches to building positive, impactful relationships between educators and learners, with a focus on underpinning process and theory. The conversation will examine the practical application of educational psychology in school settings, looking at how individual teachers, students and wider teaching communities can benefit from a more profound understanding of relational and therapeutic practices.
Video Link -
https://video.manchester.ac.uk/faculties/52f9b4cd447aa2fbeb47d1926186f80b/9a786de9-de1d-43e2-92f4-f69046e4af3a/
This session was presented at the ‘PGCE Conference 2023: Inclusion and Inspiration - Education for Social Justice’.</p
Ghana under the structural adjustment program: the impact of divestiture on indigenous private initiatives, 1999
No full textThis study is an assessment of Ghana's most sustained economic reform program (ERP), started in 1983, under the guidance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Premised on the hypothesis that Ghana's privatization drive under the structural adjustment program has resulted in an upsurge of indigenous private initiative, this study used three evaluative criteria to analyze information and data on Ghana's economy from 1983 to 1997. These are (a) assessing the overall increases or growth in Ghana's economy; (b) evaluating the impact of the reform measures in the reduction of poverty, unemployment and inequality in Ghana; and (c) assessing the extent to which the divestiture push has impacted indigenous private initiatives. The researcher also attempts an explanation of what has become known as 'the Rawlings factor' in Ghana politics, and how this phenomenon, born out of a curious mix of charisma, populism and decentralization, seem to have given Ghana the much-needed political stability to carry out its economic rehabilitation programs. The findings of the study suggest that: (a) Since.1983, Ghana's economy has responded rather favorably to the adjustment policies. While Ghana had been experiencing negative growth rates in the immediate pre�adjustment years, an average annual growth rate of 5% was recorded for the first eight years of reforms (1984-1991), and since 1992, Ghana's growth rate has hovered around 3.5% per annum. (b) Despite the introduction of user fees in social services like education, and health care delivery and their initial negative effects on the rural folks and the very poor in Ghana, overall, the incidence of poverty has been reduced from 43% of Ghana's rural population to 34%. (c) Although foreign capital interests dominate in the acquisition of the mainly capital-intensive enterprises divested by the Ghana government, the data show a modest presence of indigenous Ghanaian initiative in acquiring and successfully managing several of the privatized ventures. A stronger and more prolonged economic recovery is needed to improve the investment and savings capacity of the Ghanaian private sector to enable it to play a more meaningful role in the recovery process
An Interdependent Literacy Model to Assist with Critical Reading Comprehension in the English First Additional Language Classroom
No full textVarious attempts have been made to assist the multitude of South African learners who experience literacy challenges, particularly critical reading challenges, in the classroom. Although a number of critical literacy models that focus on reading literacy have been developed to alleviate the reading comprehension crisis in South Africa, poor reading comprehension continues to prevail among South African learners, as shown in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study reports. This article argues for a focus on critical reading comprehension in the classroom. Based on a review of the Four Resources Model of Critical Literacy and the Interdependent Model of Critical Literacy, the researchers propose a new model to the literacy debate, the Critical Reading Interdependent Literacy Model (CRILM), which is designed to be used at school level and is suitable to be used from Grade 4 and beyond. CRILM is based on an instruction and learning framework that promotes a participatory-interactive-interdependent relationship between educators, learners, the text, and the author. Through the text and author, learners will be able to initiate critical insight and societal knowledge development from within the English First Additional Language classroom. Centred on the educator, the learners, the text, and the author, as well as their relation to reality, this proposed new model hypothesises the interaction and interdependence of all the participants during the reading process for the successful development of classroom critical reading comprehension
Real-time simulation of a doubly-fed induction generator based wind power system on eMEGASim® real-time digital simulator
No full textThe growing demand for wind power integration into the generation mix prompts the need to subject these systems to stringent performance requirements. This study sought to identify the required tools and procedures needed to perform real-time simulation studies of Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) based wind generation systems as basis for performing more practical tests of reliability and performance for both grid-connected and islanded wind generation systems. The author focused on developing a platform for win d generation studies and in addition, the author tested the performance of two DFIG models on the platform real-time simulation model; an average SimpowerSystems® DFIG wind turbine, and a detailed DFIG based wind turbine using ARTEMiS® components. The platform model implemented here consists of a high voltage transmission system with four integrated wind farm models consisting in total of 65 DFIG based wind turbines and it was developed and tested on OPAL-RT’s eMEGASim® Real-Time Digital Simulator
Human resource development and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
No full textSustained development requires efficient use of resources and equitable distribution of national income. Investment in human capital must be systematically organized in relation to other investments. Specifically, attrition in primary school is high, and the education does not respond sufficiently to labor market requirements, nor engender self-employment opportunities. Inadequate agricultural production, nutrition, health care, poor female education, and excessive population growth are major obstacles to human development and economic growth.A dynamic growth model tested for the contribution of investments in human and physical capital, and other economic factors to economic growth. The stabilization of population growth was considered. Indeterminacy of human capital investment to economic growth was ascertained. Investment in human capital may promote labor productivity growth, may result in detrimental trade-off with growth, or under certain conditions may have no relationship with economic growth.Population growth was associated with reduced investment in higher education, resulting in indeterminacy of its contribution to economic growth. Raising the incremental capital in managerial and technical higher education, and in equitable redistribution of this capital will create productive disequilibria. The educational system must also focus on population and nutrition.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:03:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Suspense Strategies in Buchi Emecheta's Head Above Water
No full textAbstract This paper explores two strategies employed by Buchi Emecheta to create suspense in her autobiography Head Above Water. The two strategies are the use of chapter headings and provision of backgrounds to episodes. It has been ascertained from this study that contrary to some assertions by some scholars about the structure of female autobiography, Emecheta's self-account is coherently organised. This organisation is exploited by the author to create expectation in her readers about what transpires in her account
An interdependent literacy model to assist with critical reading comprehension in the English First Additional language classroom
No full textVarious attempts have been made to assist the multitude of South African
learners who experience literacy challenges, particularly critical reading
challenges, in the classroom. Although a number of critical literacy models that
focus on reading literacy have been developed to alleviate the reading
comprehension crisis in South Africa, poor reading comprehension continues to
prevail among South African learners, as shown in the Progress in International
Reading Literacy Study reports. This article argues for a focus on critical
reading comprehension in the classroom. Based on a review of the Four
Resources Model of Critical Literacy and the Interdependent Model of Critical
Literacy, the researchers propose a new model to the literacy debate, the Critical
Reading Interdependent Literacy Model (CRILM), which is designed to be used
at school level and is suitable to be used from Grade 4 and beyond. CRILM is
based on an instruction and learning framework that promotes a participatoryinteractive-
interdependent relationship between educators, learners, the text,
and the author. Through the text and author, learners will be able to initiate
critical insight and societal knowledge development from within the English First Additional Language classroom. Centred on the educator, the learners, the
text, and the author, as well as their relation to reality, this proposed new model
hypothesises the interaction and interdependence of all the participants during
the reading process for the successful development of classroom critical reading
comprehension.https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/EACam2023Unit for Academic Literac
PGCE Conference 2023: Inclusion and Inspiration - Education for Social Justice
No full textThe Manchester Institute of Education’s ITE conference ‘Inclusion and Inspiration: Education for Social Justice’ was held online on 13th January 2023. It included keynotes and seminars on issues of critical importance to practising teachers and trainees. 300+ delegates attended two keynote lectures delivered by the University of Manchester’s Chancellor Nazir Afzal OBE, author and broadcaster Jeffrey Boakye and educational psychologist David Lamb. Breakout session topics ranged from managing stress and anxiety, the effect of poverty on learning, LGBTQ+ rights in schools to critiquing the concept of British Values, teacher wellbeing and cultural capital. The expertise shared by all guest speakers provided delegates with opportunities to discuss and reflect on the need for social justice in education and learn about inclusive practices to enhance classroom experiences for themselves and their pupils. We have created a repository for the content of the keynotes and presentations to enable further engagement with the inclusive educational practices discussed throughout the day
