scholarly journals Unlearning my communication pedagogy through poetic inquiry

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Rawlinson
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Class Privilege ◽  
Creative Space ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Communication Pedagogy

Feeling disenchanted with my communication pedagogy to undergraduate students at a university of technology, I searched for a means to improve my practices. Poetic inquiry assisted in unveiling how my personal and professional lived experiences had moulded my lecturer self and negatively influenced my communication practices. The reflexive writing of poems created an imaginative space in which embedded values and assumptions could be excavated, and the complexity of my entrenched beliefs made visible. The creative space helped crystallise my thinking and generate fresh insights into my white race and class privilege. New interpretations of how a merging of my personal and professional identities could improve my classroom teaching and learning were evoked through poetic inquiry. Furthermore, as a form of analysis, it served to disrupt ingrained instrumentalist patterns of thinking and acting whilst enabling a more imaginative envisioning of my communication pedagogy.

Teaching in extended programmes in South Africa by Lynn Coleman

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Molefi Motsoenyane
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Cape Peninsula ◽  
Point Of Reference

In this review of Lynn Coleman's Teaching In Extended Programmes In South Africa, Molefi Motsoenyane explains how the book ably acts as a point of reference for teaching diverse students in a range of subjects, while also considering various administrative issues relating to extended curriculum provision.Key words: extended curriculum programmes, undergraduate students, teaching and learning, active learning, diversityHow to cite this article:Motsoenyane, M. 2020. Book review: Coleman, L. 2018. Teaching In Extended Programmes In South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Fundani, Centre for Higher Education Development, Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South. v. 4, n. 1, p. 86-88. April 2020. Available at: https://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=144This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

scholarly journals A translanguage pedagogy to promote Biotechnology concept engagement and academic literacy in a linguistically-diverse university context

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SI) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nakhooda ◽  
◽  
Moragh Isobel Jane Paxton ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Dominant Language ◽  
Epistemic Access ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Cape Peninsula

Following the call for transformation, higher education institutions in South Africa were required to promote and implement indigenous languages in teaching and learning. This has led to various strategies and resources being explored and implemented, multilingual glossaries among them. In science, where English remains the global means of communication, our experience has been that such interventions are often underutilized. A more inclusive, holistic pedagogy is required to adequately prepare students, especially non-English speakers, for international scientific engagement. One such pedagogy is presently proposed and tested. Its purpose is to harness the dominant language - that which is most active in the learners’ minds - to first promote epistemological access to difficult scientific concepts, and after concept acquisition, develop the required English, scientific, and academic literacy. Biotechnology undergraduate students at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) - many of whom are international - reported enhancing their learning experience and recognised the significance of their dominant language in deep learning as a result of this translanguage pedagogy. Such a pedagogy demonstrates that multilingualism, far from being viewed as an impediment to teaching and learning, should be seen as a rich resource that needs to be harnessed to facilitate epistemic access, cognitive development, transformation, social cohesion, and respect for all languages.

A CUSTOMISED FRAMEWORK FOR EFFECTIVE PODCAST INTEGRATION IN A SOUTH AFRICAN HIGHER EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-32
Author(s):  
Shane Pachagadu ◽  
Liezel Nel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning Environment ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
African Higher Education ◽  
South African Higher Education ◽  
Effective Integration

Numerous studies have explored the potential of podcast integration in teaching and learning environments. This paper first presents and organises perspectives from literature in a conceptual framework for the effective integration of podcasting in higher education. An empirical study is then discussed in which the guidelines presented in the framework were evaluated for applicability in a selected course at a South African University of Technology. Since the results of the study revealed a number of aspects not accounted for in the conceptual framework, the framework was customised to make it more applicable for the particular higher education environment. The customised framework identifies four principles and a series of related guidelines for the effective integration of podcasts in a South African higher education teaching and learning environment. This framework can become a valuable resource for effective podcast integration in similar environments.

The Finkleman Preparation: A Computer Simulation for Teaching Undergraduate Students of Pharmacology

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 474-480
Author(s):  
David Dewhurst ◽  
Ian Hughes ◽  
Richard Ullyott
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Computer Assisted Learning ◽  
Sympathetic Nerve Stimulation ◽  
Chart Recorder ◽  
Experimental Protocols ◽  
Evoked Contractions

An interactive computer-assisted learning program is described, which simulates a number of experiments which can be performed on the isolated, innervated duodenum of the rabbit (the Finkleman preparation). This preparation is one of the classical pharmacological preparations used to demonstrate to undergraduate students the effects of selected drugs: those acting on adrenoceptors or intestinal smooth muscle, or those affecting responses to sympathetic nerve stimulation. The program runs on any IBM compatible PC, and makes use of text and high resolution graphics to provide a background to the experiments and to describe the methodology. A screen display which emulates a chart recorder presents simulated results (spontaneous or evoked contractions of the gut), derived from actual data, in response to the selection by students of predetermined experimental protocols from a menu. The program is designed to enhance or replace the traditional laboratory-based practical using this preparation, whilst achieving the majority of the same teaching and learning objectives.

iMindMap as an innovative tool in teaching and learning accounting: an exploratory study

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan Noor Hazlina Wan Jusoh ◽  
Suraya Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Accounting Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Course Content ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Conventional Teaching ◽  
Innovative Tool ◽  
The University

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the use of iMindMap software as an interactive tool in the teaching and learning method and also to be able to consider iMindMap as an alternative instrument in achieving the ultimate learning outcome. Design/methodology/approach Out of 268 students of the management accounting at the University of Technology MARA (Terengganu), 97 students have participated in this survey to evaluate the effectiveness of iMindMap in teaching and learning. Findings Results indicate that the majority of the students acknowledged that iMindMap is more attractive than conventional teaching methods and found that iMindMap shows clearly how the points are all associated and linked together. Students could find that learning is an exciting experience and were able to visualize the whole course content remarkably via iMindMap. Originality/value This study presents an alternative instrument, which is innovative and interactive in teaching and learning, especially for accounting students where the students’ technology acceptance could also be viewed.

scholarly journals A virtual alternative to molecular model sets: a beginners’ guide to constructing and visualizing molecules in open-source molecular graphics software

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siripreeya Phankingthongkum ◽  
Taweetham Limpanuparb
Keyword(s):  
General Chemistry ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Molecular Model ◽  
Bond Line ◽  
First Year ◽  
Molecular Graphics ◽  
Model Sets ◽  
Graphics Software

Abstract Objective The application of molecular graphics software as a simple and free alternative to molecular model sets for introductory-level chemistry learners is presented. Results Based on either Avogadro or IQmol, we proposed four sets of tasks for students, building basic molecular geometries, visualizing orbitals and densities, predicting polarity of molecules and matching 3D structures with bond-line structures. These topics are typically covered in general chemistry for first-year undergraduate students. Detailed step-by-step procedures are provided for all tasks for both programs so that instructors and students can adopt one of the two programs in their teaching and learning as an alternative to molecular model sets.

A Project Zero Model Classroom in a Malaysian Culture

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Normah Abdullah ◽  
Laura Christ Dass ◽  
Siti Akmar Abu Samah
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
School Settings ◽  
Harvard Graduate School ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
Visible Thinking ◽  
Teacher's Perception

This paper is taken from a bigger study aimed at trialing a Western learning model in a Malaysian context where it is yet to be tested by previous research. The Visible Thinking (VT) Project of Project Zero research is used as benchmark for this study. A summary of selected PZ research projects presented in this paper highlights the learning benefits of establishing patterns of thinking within the classroom as projected by PZ studies of Harvard Graduate School of Education, the hallmark institution. Many aspects of classroom teaching have been shown by PZ research to enhance learning, this paper will focus on a Malaysian undergraduate classroom that has decided to trial this highly recommended model using a framework derived from PZ school settings. Part of the focus of the study was to check if the ideas and paradigms are transferable to a Higher Education ESL context of a culturally different setting in terms of the manifestations of classroom interactions, students’ and teacher’s perception of it as well as from the researcher’s observation of this classroom in session. The literature on the findings of VT project, mainly the thinking routines employed, the importance of establishing thinking routines in the classroom and examples of instances where these routines were visible in the classroom contexts are the summarized in this paper. Most of PZ research was conducted in school classrooms in a Western setting. This study prides itself in taking PZ research to a whole new level to study undergraduate students in a Malaysian classroom setting.

Guidelines for Teaching and Learning Under the COVID-19 Situation King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phonsak Lerthiranphanya ◽  
Usanee Manyam ◽  
Yupaporn Khamprachom ◽  
Chalita Phachob
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
University Of Technology
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