Contextualised Critical Reflections on Academic Development Practices

Contextualised Critical Reflections on Academic Development Practices

Author: Teboho Pitso

Publisher: African Sun Media

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1991201206

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"This book offers insightful reflections on academic development practices. The contributors engage the reader painstakingly in the dynamics of professional learning and effective teaching. This volume facilitates the examination of the need for reflection that leads to professional maturity. All educational institutions seek teachers who continuously search for effective strategies in improving student success. The contributors uncover a variety of approaches as they evince proven suggestions. The chapters are refreshing and edifying. This book is essential for all teachers, lecturers and trainers who want to improve their teaching practice immensely". Professor Vuyisile T. Msila Researcher at the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa.


The Forgotten

The Forgotten

Author: Teboho Pitso

Publisher: African Sun Media

Published: 2023-05-20

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1991201974

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The book focuses on uncovering lies and myths that sustain the colonial and European supremacist agendas and restores Africa’s role in originating civilisation, science, mathematics, philosophy, spirituality, and Christianity. It forms part of questioning the deification of Global North episteme as a universal theory. The volume thus contributes to Southern theorisation that draws from multiple practices and lived experiences of those from the austral geographic location (Global South) whose understanding of time is secular. Such theorisation challenges and denounces the imperialist gaze on contemporary science as the sole spectacle and arbiter of its significance in society. The Global South episteme, whose sources are indigenous practices, collective knowing, and collective experiences, has all the right to claim its stake in hallowed spaces of knowledge production.


Reflections on Postgraduate Supervision and Academic Development in an African Distance Education Environment

Reflections on Postgraduate Supervision and Academic Development in an African Distance Education Environment

Author: Tennyson Mgutshini

Publisher: African Sun Media

Published: 2024-03-05

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1991260296

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Within postgraduate studies, student non-completion, attrition, and failure rates range from 29% to 65%. These unacceptably high failure rates have been attributed to wide-ranging influences. Even so, there is consensus that postgraduate supervision represents a critical enabling vehicle for student success. Reflections on postgraduate supervision and academic development in an African distance education environment offers a collection of scholarly contributions that focus on critical questions related to the practice of postgraduate supervision, from the multiple perspectives of higher education institutions, postgraduate students, and supervisors. The inclusion of contributions from educators and learners in one manuscript makes this a unique text – one that should be the mainstay of any scholar engaged in postgraduate studies. The manuscript aptly makes the case for recognising that postgraduate preparation and supervision are the most critical contributing factors to the success of postgraduate learners, and by inference, they represent a significant panacea to many of Africa’s social and economic skills.


Practising Critical Reflection: A Resource Handbook

Practising Critical Reflection: A Resource Handbook

Author: Fook, Jan

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2007-09-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 033522170X

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Critical reflection in professional practice is popular across many different professions as a way of ensuring on going scrutiny and improved practice skills


Contextualized Practices in Arts Education

Contextualized Practices in Arts Education

Author: Chee-Hoo Lum

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-28

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 9814560553

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This edited book not only makes a much-needed contribution to research in arts education but also provides a strong grounding of evidential support for Singapore arts education, in contrast to the current state of affairs in arts education in many parts of the world where severe cuts in funding, lackluster support for the arts and imperialist agendas are pervasive. The case of and for Singapore – presented in this edited book through rich descriptions of the dedicated, contextualized practices of arts educators, artists and researchers – offers readers many valuable lessons and reflections on the continued survival and advancement of arts education.


Education for Sustainable Development in Further Education

Education for Sustainable Development in Further Education

Author: Denise Summers

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-20

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1137519118

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This book will enable teachers and managers in the post-compulsory sector to consider a range of approaches to embed Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in their practice in the post-compulsory sector. There will be the opportunity to consider key debates, useful links and suggested reading to encourage further investigation and development of practice. Fundamentally, this book aims to empower teachers to critically analyse ESD through their own subject specialisms, engage in the debate and learn with their students. Democratic and participative approaches introduced will help readers to question traditional transmissive styles of teaching and learning and move on to the radical and transformative approaches required to embrace ESD. Therefore this book, whilst including illustrative examples, will encourage the reader to look at their own subject specialisms, practice, interests and those of their students to co-construct a curriculum that embeds ESD.


The Reflective Practitioner in Professional Education

The Reflective Practitioner in Professional Education

Author: L. Lawrence-Wilkes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1137399597

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How important is it to be a reflective practitioner in education today? This book examines the reflective practitioner role and the scope of reflective activities in professional practice, revealing that critical thinking is rooted in a philosophical debate about notions of truth linked to differing learning approaches.


Conceptualising the Digital University

Conceptualising the Digital University

Author: Bill Johnston

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-16

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 3319991604

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Despite the increasing ubiquity of the term, the concept of the digital university remains diffuse and indeterminate. This book examines what the term 'digital university' should encapsulate and the resulting challenges, possibilities and implications that digital technology and practice brings to higher education. Critiquing the current state of definition of the digital university construct, the authors propose a more holistic, integrated account that acknowledges the inherent diffuseness of the concept. The authors also question the extent to which digital technologies and practices can allow us to re-think the location of universities and curricula; and how they can extend higher education as a public good within the current wider political context. Framed inside a critical pedagogy perspective, this volume debates the role of the university in fostering the learning environments, skills and capabilities needed for critical engagement, active open participation and reflection in the digital age. This pioneering volume will be of interest and value to students and scholars of digital education, as well as policy makers and practitioners.


Education For Future Practice

Education For Future Practice

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 9460913202

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Education for Future Practice engages with the challenge faced by higher education: to envisage probable, possible and desired futures for practice and education and to realise ways of educating practitioners for these futures.


Realising Exemplary Practice-Based Education

Realising Exemplary Practice-Based Education

Author: Joy Higgs

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-02-11

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9462091889

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For educators, scholars, practitioners and researchers this book offers an opportunity to explore and engage with practice-based education theories and concepts in real life teaching spaces. It is a place to see theory embodied and situated within PBE practices. It is also an opportunity to see how educators and scholars from other disciplines are applying theory to understand teaching and learning in their particular area. This volume provides an opportunity for readers to deepen their understanding of practice-based education and broaden and critically appraise their strategies for engaging with practice-based education theory. And, it provides a means of extending theory and realising new practice-based education theory through the lens of exemplary practice. There are three sections in the book: • Section 1: Practice-based education for life and work • Section 2: Practice-based education in action • Section 3: Practice-based education realisations