Browsing by Author "McMillan, Wendy"
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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 – ... -
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 ... -
Being and becoming a university teacher
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)This study examined how one academic framed the enablements and constraints to her project of being and becoming an academic. Complexity facilitated reflection in that it provided a visual representation of data, which was ... -
Being and becoming a university teacher
(Taylor & Francis group, 2017)This study examined how one academic framed the enablements and constraints to her project of being and becoming an academic. Complexity facilitated reflection in that it provided a visual representation of data, which was ... -
Collaborative research in contexts of inequality: the role of social reflexivity
(Springer, 2016)This article reports on the role and value of social reflexivity in collaborative research in contexts of extreme inequality. Social reflexivity mediates the enablements and constraints generated by the internal and external ... -
Collaborative research in contexts of inequality: the role of social reflexivity
(Springer Verlag, 2017)This article reports on the role and value of social reflexivity in collaborative research in contexts of extreme inequality. Social reflexivity mediates the enablements and constraints generated by the internal and external ... -
Diffracting learning/teaching entanglements: A South African vice-chancellor’s perspective
(Routledge, 2016)This chapter considers data from interviews conducted with eight vice-chancellors from both historically advantaged and disadvantaged higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa, as part of a larger national project ... -
Education for actuarial quality
(Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA), 2009)This paper is located in the field of actuarial professional education. It draws on current literature and empirical evidence to argue the need for developing generic ‘normative’ capabilities and values in the actuarial ... -
Finding a method to analyse qualitative data: using a study of conceptual learning
(American Association of Dental Schools, 2009)There is increasing awareness in the health sciences of the potential of qualitative research to address questions that quantitative research cannot satisfactorily answer. While a growing number of studies in health sciences ... -
Gender and race distribution of dental graduates (1985 - 2004) and first year dental students (2000 - 2005) in South Africa
(South African Dental Association, 2005)This paper, written at the close of a decade of democracy in South Africa, sets out to analyse the demographic profile of dental graduates from 1985-2004 at the five Faculties/Schools of Dentistry in South Africa. A ... -
"I could go work in a factory, but this is something I want to achieve": Narratives into social action
(Routledge, 2004)This paper is conceptually informed by a reading of Peter McLaren's work (1993). Drawing on the relationship that he signals between identity, narrative, and social action, it sets out to examine the ways in which identity ... -
"I feel that I get by with what I do" - Using narrative as a conceptual tool for understanding social identity
(School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2003)Drawing on a qualitative study of a cohort of final year preprimary teacher college students, this paper motivates for narrative analysis as a suitable tool for accessing ‘insider accounts’ of social reality. Through an ... -
"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 ... -
Making the most of teaching at the chairside
(Wiley, 2011)This paper examines the chairside as an opportunity for teaching and learning. It sets out to understand how students learn in the dental clinic so that they can better be supported in their clinical learning. The paper ... -
Moving beyond description: research that helps improve teaching and learning
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010)This paper is premised on the assumption that education research, in order to be relevant, needs to generate explanations that have educational significance and applicability. It argues that much of the health sciences ... -
Planning lifelong professionalisation learning for actuaries
(Actuarial Society of South Africa, 2006)This paper presents a model for what is termed Lifelong Professionalisation Learning for actuaries. The model is grounded on the proposition that professions are dynamic, offering the public varying quantities and qualities ... -
"Quality is bound up with our values" - Evaluating the quality of mentoring programmes
(Routledge, 2005)This paper discusses quality evaluation of health sciences mentoring programmes. The discussion highlights the way in which perceptions of what constitutes quality shape evaluative purposes. Potential tensions between ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
