88 research outputs found
About Dina Rubina - with love...
No full textThe author of the article offers a review of a book Manovskii I. "Dina Rubina yesterday and today"
Exploring how a constructivist career counselling intervention assists a late adolescent in sheltered care to re-author his life story
No full textM.Ed.In order to meet the needs of a changing global economy, the collaboration and extension of existing traditional career theories has resulted in career intervention strategies that are contextually and individually relevant. Traditional career counselling interventions in South Africa tend to serve individuals from stable and predictable contexts, where socio-economic, psychological, cultural and racial differences are not considered as significant. Street children have unconventional life experiences, with many more challenges than the average child. Such individuals, whose context does not include traditional schooling with stable home backgrounds and predictable life stages, may not benefit optimally from traditional career intervention strategies. They may not be able to identify with psychometric testing, where self information is integrated with work information and the client is advised on how he can fit into the world of work. Developments in Career Counselling theories in the 21st century have more potential relevance and benefits for children coming from non-traditional backgrounds. Constructivist Narrative Career Counselling is one of the alternative approaches in which the client and counsellor collaborate to review and create career stories in order to inform career decisions and actions. This study explores how a constructivist career counselling intervention can assist a late adolescent in sheltered care to re-author his life story. The life experiences of the former street child is reviewed, so as to highlight themes that will allow the client and researcher-counsellor to collaboratively create career stories in order to inform career decisions and actions for the participant who comes from a non traditional background. The individual case study was conducted using a constructivist lens to do qualitative research. Data was collected from career intervention activities as recommended by Narrative Career Counselling Theory. These included an intake interview, a lifeline and genogram activity, collages, career mapping, card sorting, a semi structured exit interview and the reflective journal of the researcher. Detailed transcripts of each activity and interaction were done by the researcher herself. Themes were identified from the transcripts of this narrative career intervention, in terms of the meaning they held for making career decisions and then deciding on the actions to follow
Onomastic Code in the Works of Dina Rubina “Napoleon Convoy” and “The White Dove of Cordoba”
No full textThe semantic and plot-generating functions of the onomastic paradigm in the works of Dina Rubina “Napoleon wagon train” and “The White Dove of Cordoba” is examined in the article. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the trilogy “Napoleon’s Wagon Train” has not previously been subjected to scientific analysis, nor has the artistic techniques of this trilogy been compared with those of other works by Dina Rubina. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that, based on the material of the latest novels by Rubina, repeated motives of the reification and humanization of a name, giving it the status of an independent being, a character equal to the bearers of this name, are revealed. Attention is paid to the tendencies in the use of the onomastic code and its gravitation towards a certain type of characters, the life story of which is considered by the author in comparison with the characters who lose, hide and deliberately deform their names in an extensive chronotope, covering the period from the era of antiquity, the Renaissance and the Napoleonic wars to the present day. It is proved that the onomastic code, manifested in novels included in different trilogies, appears as a structural component cementing all the later novelistic works of Dina Rubina as the author’s supertext, arranged according to uniform semantic laws. The proper name in Rubina’s works is a meta-symbol, a sign of personality identification in its uniqueness and in the history of the clan and family
A linked Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR)–Life Design (LD) model to promote teacher agency in challenging contexts
No full textUser Education Programme in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester: A Case Study
No full textThe paper reports a case study which was conducted during the doctoral research by the author. It aimed to find out the relevance of user education programme in academic libraries to the teaching and learning process. Data for the study was collected through the questionnaires, interviews with the library user-education specialists, other library staff, students and faculty. The multidisciplinary approach was applied to investigate the library’s activities in providing user education to new students. It emerged from the findings that for students to become truly information literate, the best way is to integrate the user education programmes into the university’s core curriculum
Using Life Design With Vulnerable Youth
No full textCareer counseling processes normed for Western contexts may not fully address the needs of vulnerable youth in disadvantaged, non-Western contexts. Therefore, this study examined the utility of a narrative career counseling process within the life-design paradigm for assisting a former street child to successfully shape his future career narrative. Report of a case study suggested that the life-design process assisted the client in designing a future career narrative that would enhance his quality of life. Although the study is based on 1 particular case, the findings may have significance for improving career counseling for vulnerable individuals
Female adolescents’ experiences of identity development when transitioning from under-resourced homes to a well resourced boarding school
No full textAbstract: Please refer to full text to view abstract.M.A. (Educational Psychology
Django Reinhardt’s “Minor Swing” in the Novel “Petrushka Syndrome” By Dina Rubina: Jazz Adaptation of Prose
No full textThis article explores the features of the mutual influence of musical and verbal texts in the works of Dina Rubina, the features of their interaction, the system of key-notes in various works and its functions. The principle of the influence of musical form on the compositional structure of a verbal text is disclosed. From these positions, the novel “Parsley Syndrome” is analyzed and a hypothesis is put forward on the reasons for choosing Jango Reinhardt’s jazz composition “Minor Swing” as the leitmotif of the novel. Also, the intersection points of the two texts are indicated both in the symbolic, and in the ideological and artistic part. The figurative structure of the novel and the similarity of the fate of the central characters with the fate of the author of “Minor Swing” are considered. The development of one of the main themes of Dina Rubina is shown: the continuity of the fate of the family and the clan, the mystical connection of the past and the present, the fatal inevitability of the logic of fate belonging to one genus, the talent and fortitude of the heroes of the novel, which allows one to overcome the vicissitudes of fate. The theme “doll-man” is highlighted, relevant for the novel “Parsley Syndrome”, its variations and forms
Collaborated understandings of context-specific psychosocial challenges facing South African school learners : a participatory approach
No full textAbstract: South African teachers are not sufficiently equipped to address psychosocial challenges that they encounter in under-resourced contexts among learners at school, and which impact negatively on learning and teaching. In this article, we report on the first cycle of a community-based participatory action research project undertaken with teacher participants to facilitate a collaborative understanding of the contextual psychosocial challenges that learners face. The aim of the study was to equip teachers with sustainable capacity to conduct a participatory action learning and action research (PALAR) enquiry that would enhance their ability to identify and address contextual psychosocial challenges to promote wellness. Following a PALAR design, we collaborated with 10 volunteer teachers for the generation of qualitative data through relationship building activities, individual interviews, the creation of visual artefacts, and informal group discussions. Data were analysed thematically in collaboration with the community of participants. Findings suggest that the process assisted the teachers to gain a deeper understanding of learners’ psychosocial challenges, encouraged a sense of group identity among coresearchers, and fostered their agency to begin to address the identified challenges and to network with community stakeholders to promote wellness among themselves and among learners
Teacher awareness of psychosocial support available as per the integrated school health policy in South Africa
No full textIn 2012, the South African government initiated the Integrated School
Health Policy (ISHP) to serve as a national guideline on providing school health and
support services from key stakeholders such as the Department of Health (DoH),
Department of Basic Education (DBE) and Department of Social Development (DSD).
However, despite the ISHP regulations, publications report that teachers in underresourced government schools are not sufficiently equipped to address their learners’
psychosocial challenges
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