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The curriculum as lived experience : history teaching in Zimbabwe
Get PDFPh.D.Abstract: This study highlights the complex interrelationship of theory and practice in teacher education by focusing on how a cohort of teachers at one university in Zimbabwe drew on a particular educational theory to rethink their pedagogical practices. It investigates how teachers who were taught a compulsory module called Curriculum Theory during a Bachelor of Education Degree (in-service) programme drew (or not) on the theory to rethink their pedagogical practices when enacting lessons in History at secondary school level. The Curriculum theory taught was informed by reconceptualist notions of curriculum theorising that foreground curriculum as a socially and historically constructed text. The module aimed at sensitizing teachers to socially just pedagogies that could be considered affirming of the pupils’ lived realities. The assumption was that they would be more critically conscious of what and how they teach the subject matter of history after exposure to the module. Given that History is arguably the most politically sensitive of all school subjects, I was interested in how notions of curriculum as contested and contestable were considered. To operationalise the study I employed the notion of modes of address as a heuristic through which I could seek to understand teachers’ pedagogical forms of communication during History lessons. A Critical research paradigm and, in particular, the concept of bricolage was adopted to foreground a multi-methodological approach in examining transformationist and emancipatory notions within education practice. The findings of this study reveal how the teachers had to varying degrees understood the theory-practice nexus emphasised in the in-service programme. In nuanced ways they rethought their pedagogical practices and operationalized their newly acquired thinking when designing and teaching lessons. Exposure to the theory enhanced the teachers’ understanding of the importance of translating into practice the purposes of history in ways that demonstrated its non-neutrality as a subject. The conclusion is that they understood that the curriculum could not be neutral and reframed the subject matter by employing modes of address that invoked the lived realities of the students within the policy constraints under which they worked
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
The relationship between theory and practice in the training of teachers in South Africa Black teachers' understanding of fundamental pedagogics
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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
A digital transformation framework for South African financial service providers
Get PDFPhD (Business Administration), North-West University, Potchefstroom CampusSouth African Financial Service Providers (FSPs) are characterised by turbulences and uncertainties that continuously affect business operations. Many writers summarize the current era of business as “adapt” or “die” era for many businesses, notably financial service providers. The way FSP operate has changed dramatically; there is now a new economy on the rise known as digital economy which requires Financial Service Providers to re-look at how they operate as a business. Financial Service Providers have to leverage on new technologies in order to remain relevant in the current times of banking. The majority of South African Financial Service Providers are investing in digital transformation. However, digital transformation phenomenon is not well understood, especially in the context of South African Financial Service Providers. The extant literature is limited to digital strategies and digital business models, providing a limited overview of a detailed and complete digital transformation for FSP ecosystem. Moreover, such literature, to date, has not linked digital transformation to business processes within Financial Service Providers. Hence, this thesis argues that digital transformation challenges and issues observed in South African Financial Service Providers could be alleviated by a sound digital transformation framework that is sensitive to the local context. The goal of this study was to conceptualize a framework that shows how South African Financial Service Providers could do digital transformation. The study used IT capability model, Resource dependency theory and the Technological, organizational and environmental theory as lenses to deeply understand what and how South African Financial Service Providers experience the digital transformation. The interpretive paradigm was followed in the study, with an inductive research approach and a case study research strategy employed for the study. Semi-structured interviews, observation and document reviews were data collection methods used. Hybrid thematic analysis and content analysis were the methods used to analyse the data collected. Study findings suggest that digital transformation is either enabled or inhibited by existing IT capabilities and resource dependencies. The thesis argues and concludes that IT capabilities and resource dependencies ought to manifest cognizant of the Financial services provider’s technological, organizational and environmental contexts. The framework conceptualised unpacks the theoretical, practical, and contextual contributions of this thesis.Doctora
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
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