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Die ontwikkeling van klaviertegniek deur 'n toepassing van Herrmann se vierkwadrant-breinmodel
No full textEnglish: As experience in private practice has pinpointed a deficiency in the teaching process dealing with the effective development of piano technique, the need has arisen to develop a learning model in which provision is made for the learning preferences of learners, and which applies an approach that is holistic and does not focus solely on the development of technical and mechanical skills. It was realized that there are divergent approaches to the concept of piano technique and its development. An extensive literature study of the following aspects was undertaken: physical and physiological aspects of relevant brain structures; mental functions necessary for piano technique, including among others a whole-brain approach, neuronal networks underlying music processing and motor control in the brain with regard to motor skills. Besides aspects of the brain, research was also done on teaching and learning models such as those of Rose and Nicholl, Kolb, Gardner, Jensen and Herrmann; existing approaches to piano technique; different methods of technique development; the physical and physiological aspects of piano technique; as well as emotional and social functions formulated in the philosophies of Kohut and Green. A literature study of factors that can influence technique was also conducted and the following divisions were identified, namely: the teacher; the environment; the teaching methods and the practice process. Interest in the fast-growing field of neurology has drawn attention to Ned Herrmann’s pioneering work in the field of brain domination. Research was done into his scientific approach which formulates that the dominance of specific parts of the brain influences the brain processes of skills acquisition with the result that preferences for certain learning processes can be identified in individuals. Herrmann developed the four quadrant brain model that metaphorically divides the brain into four quadrants, which is illustrated in a circular diagram anticlockwise as quadrants A, B, C and D. Each quadrant has unique quadrant descriptions that explain preferences, dispositions and perceptions. Individuals are therefore dominant in one or more of the four quadrants and that determines the type of teaching approach they are optimally receptive to; the manner in which they absorb information; deal with people and their attitude towards everyday life. Herrmann’s brain domination instrument (HBDI), which was developed to determine the dominance in persons (their cognitive preferences), was investigated. It comprises a questionnaire of 120 questions whose outcome cannot be predicted. Herrmann’s teaching and learning model is further important as it puts forward that the whole-brain approach to piano teaching, where information is provided in a structured and unstructured manner, is the best approach to be followed. By means of this, primary cognitive preferences are addressed and secondary preferences developed. A qualitative survey using the Delphi method was conducted at the same time. Experts in the field of piano technique associated with tertiary institutions in South Africa, as well as students at different levels of completing their music qualifications, were approached to act as respondents. Information regarding the development of piano technique, interpersonal relations and opinions concerning learning preferences was gathered and processed into meaningful divisions and subdivisions. It was realized that experts do indeed pay attention intuitively to the preferences of learners, but that a scientific foundation is lacking. Information obtained through literature study and qualitative research was meaningfully integrated to propose practical methods by means of which Herrmann’s four quadrant brain model can successfully be applied to piano technique. The completed research led to the conclusion that piano technique was a mental rather than a mechanical process and that the learners’ full potential could indeed be developed by applying Herrmann’s four quadrant brain model. But this can only materialize if the ideal teaching milieu; the ideally qualified teacher and recognition and consideration of the specific cognitive preferences of learners, within the context of the whole brain approach, are present.Afrikaans: Nadat daar uit eie ondervinding in die privaatpraktyk ‘n leemte in die onderrigsituasie
betreffende die doeltreffende ontwikkeling van klaviertegniek raakgesien is, het die
behoefte ontstaan om ‘n leermodel te ontgin waarby daar voorsiening vir leerders se
leervoorkeure gemaak word, en waarby ‘n holistiese benadering ter sprake kom wat
nie slegs op die blote ontwikkeling van vingervaardigheid en meganiek fokus nie.
Daar is tot die besef gekom dat uiteenlopende benaderings betreffende die begrip
“klaviertegniek” en die ontwikkeling daarvan bestaan. ‘n Uitgebreide literatuurstudie
rakende die volgende aspekte is onderneem: fisiese en fisiologiese aspekte van
relevante breinstrukture; kognitiewe funksies nodig vir klaviertegniek wat onder
andere ‘n heelbreinbenadering, neuronale netwerke onderliggend aan
musiekprosessering en motoriese kontrole in die brein met betrekking tot motoriese
vaardighede insluit. Buiten aspekte van die brein is daar ook ondersoek ingestel na onderrig- en leermodelle soos dié van Rose en Nicholl, Kolb, Gardner, Jensen en Herrmann; bestaande benaderings tot klaviertegniek; verskillende metodes van
tegniekontwikkeling; die fisiese en fisiologiese aspekte van klaviertegniek; asook
emosionele en sosiale funksies wat verwoord word in die filosofieë van Kohut en
Green. ‘n Literatuurstudie rondom faktore wat ‘n invloed op tegniek kan uitoefen is
ook onderneem en die volgende afdelings is onderskei, naamlik die onderwyser,
omgewing, onderrigmetodes en die oefenproses. Belangstelling in die snelgroeiende veld van neurologie het die aandag na Ned Herrmann, wat baanbrekerswerk gedoen het op die gebied van breindominansie, gelei. Navorsing is gedoen betreffende sy wetenskaplike benadering, wat stel dat dominansie van spesifieke dele van die brein prosesse van vaardigheidsverwerwing beïnvloed, en tot gevolg het dat voorkeure vir sekere leerprosesse by individue geïdentifiseer kan word. Herrmann het die vierkwadrant-breinmodel ontwikkel wat die brein metafories in vier kwadrante verdeel, en op ‘n sirkelvormige diagram antikloksgewys as kwadrant A, B, C en D voorgestel word. Elke kwadrant het unieke kwadrantbeskrywers wat voorkeure, ingesteldhede en persepsies toelig. Individue is dus dominant in een of meer van die vier kwadrante en dit bepaal die tipe onderrigbenaderings waarvoor hulle optimaal vatbaar is, die wyse waarop hulle
inligting sal inneem, met mense sal omgaan en hulle ingesteldheid jeens die
alledaagse lewe. Ondersoek is ingestel na die Herrmann brein-dominansie-instrument (HBDI) wat ontwikkel is om persone se dominansie (kognitiewe voorkeure) te bepaal. Dit
bestaan uit ‘n vraelys van 120 vrae waarvan die uitkoms nie voorspel kan word nie.
Herrmann se onderrig- en leermodel is ook van belang wat stel dat die
heelbreinbenadering tot klavieronderrig, waar inligting op ‘n gestruktureerde en
ongestruktureerde wyse aangebied word, die beste benadering is om te volg.
Daardeur word primêre kognitiewe voorkeure aangespreek en sekondêre voorkeure
ontwikkel. Terselfdertyd is ‘n kwalitatiewe opnamestudie gedoen deur gebruik te maak van die Delphi-metode. Kundiges op die gebied van klaviertegniek verbonde aan tersiêre
instellings in Suid-Afrika asook studente op verskillende vlakke van voltooiing van
hul musiekkwalifikasies, is gewerf om as respondente op te tree. Inligting
betreffende die ontwikkeling van klaviertegniek, interpersoonlike verhoudinge en
menings rakende leervoorkeure is ingewin en verwerk in sinvolle afdelings en
onderafdelings. Daar is tot die besef gekom dat kundiges wel intuïtief aan die
voorkeure van leerlinge aandag gee maar dat ‘n wetenskapgefundeerde onderbou
ontbreek. Inligting verkry deur die literatuurstudie en kwalitatiewe navorsing is sinvol
geïntegreer om praktiese metodes voor te stel waardeur Herrmann se vierkwadrantbreinmodel met welslae op klaviertegniek van toepassing gemaak kan word.
Na voltooiing van die navorsing is daar tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat
klaviertegniek eerder ‘n kognitiewe as ‘n meganiese proses is en dat leerlinge se
volle potensiaal wel ontwikkel kan word deur die toepassing van Herrmann se
vierkwadrant-breinmodel. Dit kan egter slegs geskied as die ideale onderrigmilieu,
ideaal-toegeruste onderwyser en erkenning en inagneming van leerlinge se
spesifieke kognitiewe voorkeure, binne die konteks van die heelbreinbenadering
teenwoordig is
The unifying effect of music in a community: a case study of the Lady Grey Passion Play
No full textConflict has detrimental effects on the dynamics in a community. The purpose of this research is to investigate to which extent music as an integrated part of a community project can contribute as a unifying factor in the community. The research included an investigation of the level of social transformation that may be possible through hosting a community project and utilised Brown’s model of social enhancement. Other important matters of interest were how the music of a community project such as the Lady Grey Passion Play serves as an emotive reward enhancer, as well as a helpful tool for persuasion and manipulation. Community projects have the possibility to accommodate change regarding mutual respect, reciprocity, group forming, cohesiveness and creating positive energy. Fourteen participants, selected by means of purposive sampling because of their specific knowledge and lived experiences of the Lady Grey Passion Play, were interviewed using open-ended, non-leading questions. The data was analysed using inductive analysis. It allowed me to build and decode its subjective reality and create meaning within the social context of the Passion Play. The main findings of the study can be summarised as follows: Through the annual presentation of a community event with integrated music, unity can be nurtured, boundaries may subside with resulting higher levels of tolerance, and conflict between the members of different communities may decrease. The practical implications of this study’s findings are that beliefs, ideologies and attitudes may lead to persuasion and manipulation through music. Music has an impact on mood and behaviour, and people become inspired by listening to it. There is, therefore, a possibility that unity can be promoted in a community through the use of music in a recurring community event
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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