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Critical professionalism: a lecturer attribute for troubled times
(SUN Press, 2012)
This chapter describes the research-based project, Critical Professionalism,
which gave rise to several of the chapters in this volume. We suggest
that the concept of critical professionalism, with its strong value ...
Exploring the use of digital gaming to improve student engagement at a resource poor institution in South Africa
(Academic Conferences International Limited, 2014)
Although student engagement has potential to enhance learning and student retention, the use of digital games to achieve this learning outcome remains a challenge in higher education. while the role of gamification is ...
The case studies: authentic learning
(Routledge, 2014)
Moving from theory to practice in higher education is deeply challenging. While
exploring pedagogical models in the literature may lead to tacit understanding of
general principles, actually implementing these principles ...
An evaluative framework for a socially just institution
(SUN Press, 2012)
The term ‘public good’ is very broad and can include a variety of ideologically informed positions. In this volume it is described by Bozalek and Leibowitz (chapter five) as a concern with participatory parity and equality, ...
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 ...
Integration of theory and practice in Social Work: challenges and triumphs
(University of Stellenbosch, 2013)
Introduction: Teaching (in any discipline) is rewarding when students show the required growth and development in terms of their knowledge, skills and attitude (within the social work context) (Kadushin & Harkness, 2002). ...
Relevant computing curricula in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2011)
The principle objective of this research was to establish what computing curricula are required for the Sub-Saharan Africa region. Input from academics, businessmen and the analyses of curricula from several African ...
Application of Lazarus's cognitive transactional model of stress-appraisal-coping in an undergraduate mental health nursing programme in the Western Cape, South Africa
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
This article describes how the cognitive transactional model of stress-appraisal-coping can be applied in the sense making process for students working in the challenging mental health care environment. Primary and secondary ...
Making inter-disciplinary spaces for talk about and change in student writing and literacy development
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
This paper discusses the role of a writing centre in creating spaces for talk about
and change in disciplinary writing pedagogy. It asks how collaborative partnerships
between disciplinary academics and Writing Centre ...
First year learner nurses' perceptions of learning motivation in self-directed learning in a simulated skills laboratory at a higher education institution
(2014)
Employing self-directed learning (SDL) methodologies, that are associated with
improvement in the affective and psychomotor domains, could be advantageous to
learner nurses. Despite the efforts to expose students to SDL ...