scholarly journals Digitalization and Decolonizing Education: A Qualitative Study of University of South Africa (UNISA) Leadership

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 553-560
Author(s):  
Vuyisile Msila ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Road ◽  
New Vision ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

The COVID-19 pandemic that shook the world in 2020 forced all educational institutions to search for new ways of teaching and learning. Furthermore, education institutions such as the University of South Africa (UNISA), like all other universities, found themselves with a huge task of promoting digitalization. As a traditional distance education institution, UNISA had to refine digitalization in a time of decolonization in the Global South. This case study examined the role of educational managers in sustaining effective digitalization. Eight UNISA managers were selected and interviewed to understand how they perceived the role of digital leaders. Furthermore, the study sought to understand why it is critical that managers should be in the forefront of digitalization. The study found that at present in Africa it is critical for digitalization to be combined with decolonization. Additionally, when digitalization and decolonization are implemented simultaneously, they become vehicles for social justice and democracy. This then means that education can be a tool for liberation and achievement where the digital divide is minimized. When implemented well, education institutions become institutions with access for success. The conclusions show that a set strategy based on a new vision for a university will harness digital leadership. The participants also mentioned strategic documents at the university; on the one hand are the Five Pillars of Change whilst on the other are the Eight Dimensions of Transformation. Furthermore, the participants claimed that their institution was on the road to success whilst building UNISA as an institution “Towards the African University that builds futures.”

The Worship of Jesus in Apocalyptic Christianity

1981 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bauckham
Keyword(s):  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Early Church ◽  
The Road ◽  
Significant Phenomenon ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The One ◽  
Exclusive Right ◽  
The Church

In the development of Christology in the primitive church, the emergence of the worship of Jesus is a significant phenomenon. In the exclusive monotheism of the Jewish religious tradition, as distinct from some other kinds of monotheism, it was worship which was the real test of monotheistic faith in religious practice. In the world-views of the early centuries A.D. the gap between God and man might be peopled by all kinds of intermediary beings – angels, divine men, hypostatized divine attributes, the Logos – and the early church's attempt to understand the mediatorial role of Jesus naturally made use of these possibilities. In the last resort, however, Jewish monotheism could not tolerate a mere spectrum between God and man; somewhere a firm line had to be drawn between God and creatures, and in religious practice it was worship which signalled the distinction between God and every creature, however exalted. God must be worshipped; no creature may be worshipped. For Jewish monotheism, this insistence on the one God's exclusive right to religious worship was far more important than metaphysical notions of the unity of the divine nature. Since the early church remained – or at least professed to remain – faithful to Jewish monotheism, the acknowledgement of Jesus as worthy of worship is a remarkable development. Either it should have been rejected as idolatry – and a halt called to the upward trend of christological development – or else its acceptance may be seen with hindsight to have set the church already on the road to Nicene theology.

scholarly journals أثر اعتبار مقاصد الشّريعة في تطوير برامج المؤسّسات التّعليميّة العليّا في بروناي دار السلام: جامعة السلطان الشّريف علي الإسلاميّة نموذجًا

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-184
Author(s):  
Mohamed Hamadikinane Maiga
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Administrative Development ◽  
The University

اعتبار مقاصد الشريعة في المؤسّسات التعليميّة الإسلاميّة العليا له أثر كبير في تطوير البرامج التعليميّة، الذي يؤدّي إلى جودة التعليم والتعلّم، وتحقيق المصالح الدنيوية والدينيّة. وهذا البحث يأتي لتحقيق أهداف ساميّة وهي: إبراز دور مقاصد الشّريعة وأثرها في تطوير برامج المؤسّسات التعليميّة الإسلاميّة العليا، وبيان أهمّيّة مقاصد الشريعة للعالم والمتعلّم، ودور مقاصد الشّريعة وأثرها في تكوين المواطن الصالح. والمنهج المتبع في هذا البحث هو المنهج الوصفي التحليلي المبني على الاستقراء وتحليل البيانات. وقد خلص البحث إلى أنّ مراعاة مقاصد الشريعة عند وضع البرامج التعليميّة، تستلزم الاهتمام بواقع المجتمع الديني، والاجتماعي، والاقتصادي، والثقافي، وأنّ التطوير الإداري هو ركيزة أساسيّة لأيّ تطوير تعليمي وتربوي في المؤسّسات الجامعيّة، ويتمّ ذلك  من خلال التخطيط، والتنظيم، والقيادة، والرقابة، وتقويم الأداء. Consideration of Maqāsid al-Shariah (Purposes of Shariah) in Higher Islamic Educational Institutions has a major impact on the development of educational programs that leads to the quality of teaching and learning, and the achievement of worldly and religious interests.  This paper has some great aims that are highlighting the role of Maqāsid al-Shariah and its impact on developing the programs of Islamic Higher Educational Institutions, explaining the importance of Maqāsid al-Shariah to the Scholar and the learner and the role of the purposes of Shariah and its impact on the formation of a good citizen. The methodology used in this research is the descriptive analytical approach based on the induction and data analysis. The research concluded that observing the purposes of Shariah at developing educational programs requires the attention to the reality of religious, social, economic and cultural society, and that the administrative development is a basic pillar for any educational development in the university institutions. This can be done through the planning, organizing, leading, controlling and evaluating the performance.

Unhoming Pedagogies: Collaborative Wandering and Wondering with Literature

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Pollard ◽  
Deborah Ashfield ◽  
Jasmin Jelley
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Narrative Frame ◽  
The University ◽  
Uk Higher Education ◽  
Collaborative Article

Abstract This collaborative article reflects on a set of shared practices that were inspired by a Year 3 undergraduate Literary Studies module, which took place in 2018. In co-teaching and learning on this module, the authors found their disciplinary and pedagogic norms unsettled and set adrift (unhomed). This article traces how their processes of working together – in and beyond the University classroom – stimulated a critique of the rational individualist principles which had unconsciously steered their learning and teaching practices until this point. The article includes case studies from the experiences of three students who took the module, and a narrative frame that speaks from the perspective of a collaborative ‘we’ (which includes students and ‘teacher’). The article tests out writing practices which reorient the customary Humanist terms in which educational research is conducted, and which disrupt the objective voice in which pedagogical reflection is often narrated. From this vertiginous perspective, the article also considers the authors’ particular entanglements with the cultural politics of the contemporary UK Higher Education Institution (HEI), and the role of unhomed Humanities teaching as part of the 21C University.

Versoening en die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: Die Algemene Sinode van 1994 as baken vir ’n lewe van volheid

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Johan M. Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
The Road ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Research Theme ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The University ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

The Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria chose oikodome as a Faculty Research Theme (FRT) in 2014. This term refers to life in its fullness. The Dutch Reformed Church, as one of the partners of the Faculty, contributed to life in its fullness through the important role it played in the reconciliation in South Africa since 1986. One of the beacons on this road of reconciliation was the General Synod of 1994. It became known as the ‘Synod of reconciliation’ as a result of the visits of Mr Nelson Mandela, Prof. B.J. Marais and Dr Beyers Naudé, and the important decisions that the meeting took. It was however, not only the visits of these important roleplayers in history which made the meeting a beacon on the road to reconciliation. This chapter shows that it was imbedded in a much larger context of reconciliation in South Africa in which the Dutch Reformed Church played an important role. By participating in the process of reconcilation in the country, the Dutch Reformed Church contributed to oikodome – life in its fullness for all.

scholarly journals Understanding Higher Education: Alternative Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Higher Education Policies ◽  
Social Account ◽  
The University

Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls for transformation have been heard in the university since the last days of apartheid. Similar claims for quality higher education to be made available to all have been made across the African continent. In spite of this, inequalities remain and many would argue that these have been exacerbated during the Covid pandemic. Understanding Higher Education: Alternative Perspectives responds to these calls by arguing for a social account of teaching and learning by contesting dominant understandings of students as ‘decontextualised learners’ premised on the idea that the university is a meritocracy. This book tackles the issue of teaching and learning by looking both within and beyond the classroom. It looks at how higher education policies emerged from the notion of the knowledge economy in the newly democratic South Africa, and how national qualification frameworks and other processes brought the country more closely into conversation with the global order. The effects of this on staffing and curriculum structures are considered alongside a proposition for alternative ways of understanding the role of higher education in society.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF CREATIVITY IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 095-101
Author(s):  
Ivana Dudová ◽  
Jakub Cíba
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
Creative Teaching ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The University

Creativity is the engine, and motivation and hard work is the petrol on the road to success. The aim of this article was to present and demonstrate the crucial and important role of creativity in education. In this sense, the article explains the contents of important concepts such as creativity, creative teaching, motivational climate, and teaching methods for developing students' creativity in teaching. Attention is drawn in particular to the presence of creativity in education at the University of Žilina.

The Role of Crushes on the Road to Autonomy

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (9) ◽  
pp. 18-19
Author(s):  
MICHAEL S. JELLINEK
Keyword(s):  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

ROLE OF LIBRARIANS IN TEACHING INFORMATION LITERACY IN ZIMBABWEAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinashe Mugwisi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Information Skills ◽  
The University

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the Internet have to a large extent influenced the way information is made available, published and accessed. More information is being produced too frequently and information users now require certain skills to sift through this multitude in order to identify what is appropriate for their purposes. Computer and information skills have become a necessity for all academic programmes. As libraries subscribe to databases and other peer-reviewed content (print and electronic), it is important that users are also made aware of such sources and their importance. The purpose of this study was to examine the teaching of information literacy (IL) in universities in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and the role played by librarians in creating information literate graduates. This was done by examining whether such IL programmes were prioritised, their content and how frequently they were reviewed. An electronic questionnaire was distributed to 12 university libraries in Zimbabwe and 21 in South Africa. A total of 25 questionnaires were returned. The findings revealed that IL was being taught in universities library and non-library staff, was compulsory and contributed to the term mark in some institutions. The study also revealed that 44 per cent of the total respondents indicated that the libraries were collaborating with departments and faculty in implementing IL programmes in universities. The study recommends that IL should be an integral part of the university programmes in order to promote the use of databases and to guide students on ethical issues of information use.

Some aspects of the pedagogical model of constructive geometric modeling

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Voloshinov ◽  
K. Solomonov ◽  
Lyudmila Mokretsova ◽  
Lyudmila Tishchuk
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Geometric Modeling ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Models Of Teaching ◽  
Software Product ◽  
The University

The application of constructive geometric modeling to pedagogical models of teaching graphic disciplines today is a promising direction for using computer technology in the educational process of educational institutions. The essence of the method of constructive geometric modeling is to represent any operation performed on geometric objects in the form of a transformation, as a result of which some constructive connection is established, and the transformation itself can be considered as a result of the action of an abstract cybernetic device. Constructive geometric modeling is a popular information tool for information processing in various applied areas, however, this tool cannot be appreciated without the presence of appropriate software systems and developed design techniques. Traditionally, constructive geometric modeling is used in the design of mechanical engineering, energy, aircraft and shipbuilding facilities, in architectural and design engineering. The need to study descriptive geometry at the university in recent years has something in common with the issues of mastering graphic packages of computer programs in the framework of the new discipline "Engineering and Computer Graphics". The well-known KOMPAS software product is considered the simplest and most attractive for training. It should be noted the important role of graphic packages in the teaching of geometric disciplines that require a figurative perception of the material by students. Against the background of a reduction in classroom hours, computer graphics packages are practically the only productive teaching methodology, successfully replacing traditional tools - chalk and blackboard.

Book review: Jansen, J. 2017. As by Fire: The End of the South African University. Cape Town: Tafelberg.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Jared McDonald
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
The South ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University

Dr Jared McDonald, of the Department of History at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa, reviews As by fire: the end of the South African university, written by former UFS vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen.    How to cite this book review: MCDONALD, Jared. Book review: Jansen, J. 2017. As by Fire: The End of the South African University. Cape Town: Tafelberg.. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 117-119, Sep. 2017. Available at: <http://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=18>. Date accessed: 12 Sep. 2017.   This 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/

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