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Authentic professional development: Key to quality sevice delivery
(Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA), 2014)
The Actuarial Society of South Africa ('Actuarial Society') requires its members to honour their
professional promise to deliver specialist and up-to-date actuarial expertise that is ethical and
subject to professional ...
Understanding what it means to be a health practitioner: biographies of care and concern
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2011)
INTRODUCTION: I am not a health practitioner, although I work in a Health Sciences Faculty. As the faculty’s ‘Education Advisor’, I am intimately involved in the education of health practitioners. I mentor students to learn ...
Analysing the professional development of teaching and learning from a political ethics of care perspective
(Routledge, 2014)
This paper uses Tronto’s political ethics of care as a normative framework to evaluate
a model of teaching and learning professional development. This framework identifies
five integrated moral elements of care – ...
Supporting reading literacy: A grade 6 pilot study
(University of Venda, 2012)
This paper discusses a pilot reading-literacy development initiative in a class of Grade 6 township
learners. The purpose of the study was to pilot a model of literacy development that could be
implemented across a wider ...
Transition to university: the role played by emotion
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
Students experience transition to university as challenging. Recent studies implicate emotion in university success. This paper reports on a pilot study to examine the extent to which school to university transition is ...
"They have different information about what is going on": Emotion in the transition to university
(Routledge, 2014)
Most new students experience school to university transition as challenging.
Students from backgrounds with little or no experience of higher education are
most vulnerable in this transition, and most at risk of academic ...
Teaching for clinical reasoning – helping students make the conceptual links
(Informa Healthcare, 2010)
INTRODUCTION:
The paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding how conceptual learning is achieved, and the way in which conceptual understanding influences clinical reasoning and the ability to transfer ...
"I now see CPD as an integral part of my life": Authorship in continuing professional development
(2015)
The Actuarial Society of South Africa (‘Actuarial Society’) is piloting amended
continuing professional development (‘CPD’) requirements. Cycles of work-based
personal development are expected to support the delivery of ...
‘Your thrust is to understand’ - how academically successful students learn
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010)
The article sets out to understand how academically successful students learn. Self-regulated learning theory is used as a lens to explicate the learning strategies adopted by a cohort of academically successful dentistry ...
Recruiting and retaining rural students: evidence from a Faculty of Dentistry in South Africa
(Deakin University, 2012)
There is a shortage internationally of adequately trained health professionals to service rural areas. Health
professionals are more likely to practice in communities that are like the one in which they grew up. The WHO ...