scholarly journals Strengthening foundation phase teacher education through mentoring

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerryn Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Mentoring Practices ◽  
Research Initiative ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Reflection On Practice

This paper explores a multidimensional mentorship model implemented between lecturers from the foundation phase at the Wits School of Education and four master’s students from the University of Limpopo, as part of the Departments of Education’s research initiative to strengthen foundation phase teacher education. Using three critical incidents, we interrogate mentors’ experiences of their mentoring practices. Two sets of literature, mentoring and social capital are used as a lens for analysing these incidents. Initial findings suggest the relationship has moved from the initiation to cultivation stage (Kram, 1985; Ragins & Kram, 2007). But, cultural preconceptions, implicit assumptions and institutional practices can impede or enhance information flows and trust. It is argued that weak ties characterised by mentors’ heterogeneity is a strength that has resulted in growing professional development. Through a process of reflection-on-practice, we have begun to think of ourselves as a fledging community of practice. This opens up possibilities for the larger research project.

scholarly journals Flexible Characterization: Herstorical Performance in Heritage Sites

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-368
Author(s):  
Victoria Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Identity Performance ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Women's Narratives ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Spatial Exploration ◽  
The University ◽  
Heritage Performance ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores how performance and character can be used to represent the lives of real women in spaces of heritage. It focuses on two different site-specific performances created by the author in the South Ayrshire region of Scotland: CauseWay: The Story of the Alloway Suffragettes and In Hidden Spaces: The Untold Stories of the Women of Rozelle House. These were created with a practice-as-research methodology and aim to offer new models for the use of character in site-specific performance practice. The article explores the variety of methods and techniques used, including verbatim writing, spatial exploration, and Herstorical research, in order to demonstrate the ways in which women’s narratives were represented in a theoretically informed, site-specific manner. Drawing on Phil Smith’s mythogeography, and responding to Laurajane Smith’s work on gender and heritage, the conflicting tensions of identity, performance, and authenticity are drawn together to offer flexible characterization as a new model for the creation of feminist heritage performance. Victoria Bianchi is a theatre-maker and academic in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. Her work explores the relationship between space, feminism, and identity. She has written and performed work for the National Trust for Scotland, Camden People’s Theatre, and Assembly at Edinburgh, among other institutions.

scholarly journals Technology enhanced food industry engagement and work placement curriculum quality assurance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Dunne ◽  
Keyword(s):  
University Staff ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Quality Work ◽  
Work Placement ◽  
Mentoring Practices ◽  
Selection Processes ◽  
Academic Employment ◽  
Industry Engagement ◽  
The University ◽  
Reflection On Practice

A recent report has identified several challenges and barriers from the employer perspective that can limit their ability to engage with work-placement (Jackson, Rowbottom, Ferns, & McLarend, 2017). These include a lack of shared understanding between the University and Industry of what is involved in work-placement; misalignment between employer and university expectations on the purpose and nature of the placement experience, especially what constitutes a quality placement and how this can be achieved; and ability to locate a suitable student. Additionally, not being approached by Universities and/or access to relevant University staff who arrange work-placements can be problematic. For unstructured work-placements, identifying suitable projects for students to undertake was found to be a considerable challenge. Recommendations to the University to reduce such barriers centre around developing collaborative relationships. In Ireland, specific guidelines to facilitate quality work-placement have been compiled in the ‘Roadmap for Academic-Employment Partnerships (REAP) Work-placement in Third Level-Programmes’ report (Sheridan & Linehan, 2011), and focus mainly on communications, learning agreements, mentoring practices, student selection processes, reflection on practice, and assessment and feedback mechanisms. This paper will set out how the recommendations of the REAP report for work-placement were realised in TU Dublin Food related programmes, and the important role that technology played in this process.

Teacher Education for the Future: Some Australian Perspectives

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-39
Author(s):  
Anne Power ◽  
Beth Southwell ◽  
Ros Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Experienced Teachers ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Common View ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Future ◽  
Perceived Constraints ◽  
The University

Teacher Education for the Future: Some Australian PerspectivesAs a result of presentations in the PCC Conference in Sydney in 2005, this research aims to contribute Australian voices to the project being conducted simultaneously in other countries from the Pacific Circle Consortium. The research used project-devised survey and interview instruments with purposive sampled pairs of teachers and pre-service teachers during professional experience in 2005 and with teacher educators from the University of Western Sydney. The findings indicated that the participants have a common view of the purpose of education. However, there were range of issues that this view prompted participants to discuss. There were also perceived constraints, especially expressed by the experienced teachers. Implications of this finding are that teachers need forums in which to discuss their deep-seated philosophical approaches as they build a sustainable community of practice. The findings of this project can powerfully contribute to policy making at national and international government and university levels as they raise implications of how we meet challenges in future teacher education.

scholarly journals Psychological Alienation and its Relationship to Psychological Security among a master's Students at Taif University: الاغتراب النفسي وعلاقته بالأمن النفسي لدى طلبة مرحلة الماجستير بجامعة الطائف

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samirah Ghafil Alazmi
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The study aimed to identify the feelings of psychological alienation among master's students at Taif University and identify the levels of such feelings. The study also aimed to identify the relationship between the level of psychological alienation and psychological security among the students. The study followed the descriptive approach; where the study sample consisted of (60) master's students at Taif University in Saudi Arabia. The study tool consisted of two measures; the psychological alienation and psychological security measures. The study came out with a set of results, the most important of which were: The total score of responses to the dimension of social isolation was 60.8%. The total score of responses to the dimension of anomie was 54.4%. The total score of responses to the dimension of nihilism was 60.8%. The total score of responses to the dimension of the feeling of impotence reached 45%. The total score of responses to the dimension of reification was 40.5%. The sample's assessment levels on the dimensions of life satisfaction ranged between 36-77.7%; where the total score of responses to this dimension was 71.7%. The total score of responses to the dimension of social appreciation was 59.6%. The total score of responses to the dimension of social stability reached 56%. In addition, the study found a negative relationship of statistical significance between the level of psychological alienation and psychological security among master's students at Taif University according to the correlation coefficient (0.633). In light of the previous results, the study recommended creating a climate in the university that satisfies the needs of the students; keeping them away from feeling alienated, and the need for psychological counselors to be present to provide psychological guidance to students at the university.

scholarly journals The challenge of transformation: Å arbeide med kunnskapsproblemet i lærerutdanningen

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-374
Author(s):  
Viv Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Policy Environment ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Important Respect ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractI read the articles in this special issue at a time of continuing turbulence in the policy environment in England, particularly for teacher education and particularly for university involvement in this activity. Yet as I read the papers in this special issue, I think the challenges we are both facing are very similar in one important respect: it seems to me that in England and Norway (and probably some other places too) we still haven’t worked out the relationship between the teaching profession and the university in the activity of teacher education.

MASTER’S PROGRAM AS A PERSPECTIVE DIRECTION OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF PEDAGOGICAL PERSONNEL IN THE SPHERE OF INFORMATIZATION OF EDUCATION

2018 ◽  
pp. 34-43
Author(s):  
G. N. Chusavitina
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
State Technical ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Conceptual Foundations ◽  
The Relationship

The article discusses the experience of the implementation of master’s training in the educational program 44.04.01 “Pedagogical education” (“Information technologies in education”) in Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University. The article outlines the conceptual foundations of the educational program, shows the structure, reveals the features of the program in terms of positioning in the educational services market. Particular attention is paid to the relationship with the labor market and key employers in the preparation of master's students of teacher education.

scholarly journals Mobile Technologies as a Catalyst for Pedagogic Innovation Within Teacher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Constructivist Model ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
The University ◽  
Staff Experiences

This article reviews the use of mobile technologies within teacher education at the University of Northampton. In order to develop a strong commitment to digital literacy, the School of Education is using sets of teaching iPads with trainee teachers and has allocated an iPad to every member of the academic staff. Experiences from mobile technology projects involving ITT students, primary teachers and academics are shared to illustrate how mobile technologies have been a catalyst for new pedagogies based on a social constructivist model of learning in the teacher education programmes. The author aims to develop creative, self-directed learners who can work in collaborative teams within a professional community of teachers, academics and students. The author has considered ways in which mobile devices extend learning beyond taught sessions, and how the use of apps to make shareable digital artefacts can lead to purposeful engagement. To this end, the School of Education is focusing on a set of core apps that facilitate the creation, collaboration, curation, and capture of content.

Thathir Quality Scholarship Program For Students At University level

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-219
Author(s):  
Louay Qais Abdullah ◽  
Duraid Faris Khayoun
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
First Year ◽  
Grant Program ◽  
Scholarship Program ◽  
University Level ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The study focused basically on measuring the relationship between the material cost of the students benefits program and the benefits which are earned by it, which was distributed on college students in the initial stages (matinee) and to show the extent of the benefits accruing from the grant program compared to the material burdens which matched and the extent of success or failure of the experience and its effect from o scientific and side on the Iraqi student through these tough economic circumstances experienced by the country in general, and also trying to find ways of proposed increase or expansion of distribution in the future in the event of proven economic feasibility from the program. An data has been taking from the data fro the Department of Financial Affairs and the Department of Studies and Planning at the University of Diyala with taking an data representing an actual and minimized pattern and questionnaires to a sample of students from the Department of Life Sciences in the Faculty of Education of the University of Diyala on the level of success and failure of students in the first year of the grant and the year before for the purpose of distribution comparison. The importance of the study to measure the extent of interest earned in comparision whit the material which is expenseon the program of grant (grant of students) to assist the competent authorities to continue or not in the program of student grants for the coming years.

The Relationship Between The University Services Marketing And the Leading Orientation And Their Impact In Enhancing The University Reputation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nusseibeh Ahmed Abdul Wahid
Keyword(s):  
Private Universities ◽  
Services Marketing ◽  
Correlation Relationship ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Marketing Orientation ◽  
University Reputation ◽  
Administrative Leaders ◽  
University Services ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between the university services marketing and the leading orientation and their impact in enhancing the university reputation: Field study on a sample of administrative leaders in       private universities in the Erbil city Objective - The current study try to find the role of marketing university services (educational services, research services, community services) and the leading orientation (research mobilization, distinction, cooperation, university policies, proactive) as independent variables in enhancing the university's reputation as dependent a variable (Social responsibility, innovation, quality of service, image of the organization) in a sample of private universities in the Erbil city. Methodology of the study - The problem of the study was determined in several questions related to the nature of the correlation relationship - the effect of independent study variables (marketing of university services and leadership orientation) and the dependent variable (the reputation of the university). For this purpose, the hypotheses were subjected to multiple tests. The study used the questionnaire as a means to obtain data from the administrative leaders of the investigated universities. - The study was used the analytical descriptive method. The main and sub-variables were described and correlation and effect relationships were analyzed between the variables using advanced statistical methods (arithmetic mean, standard deviation, percentages, Pearson correlation, multiple regression test) , And the implementation of the statistical program (SPSS-Ver.18). The study was conducted in the educational sector in the city of Erbil, in order to obtain the necessary information for the field through a questionnaire prepared for this purpose and distributed to six universities. The number of respondents was (73) (Presidents of universities, their assistants, deans, their assistants, heads of departments) at the universities in question. The value of the study: The main conclusions of the study are the existence of a significant relationship between the variables of the study and the existence of a significant effect of the independent variable marketing of university services and the leading trend in the dependent variable universities reputation and the existence of variation of the effect of independent variables in the dependent variable in the universities investigated, A set of recommendations, the most important of which is the establishment of a center for the marketing of services at the university level and at the level of each college. In order to conduct a continuous study of the labor market to determine market needs, the university should be aware of the importance of marketing orientation in university education

Teaching practicum and the development of professional and pedagogical knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-90
Author(s):  
Minerva Rosas ◽  
Verónica Ormeño ◽  
Cristian Ruiz-Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Pedagogical Knowledge ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Teaching Programme ◽  
Teaching Practicum ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

To assess the progressive teaching practicums included in an English Teaching Programme at a Chilean university, 60 former student-teachers answered a questionnaire with both Likert-scale and open-ended questions. The issues assessed included the relationship between the progressive teaching practicums and the curriculum’s modules and sequence, and the skills developed while implementing innovation projects during the student-teachers’ two final practicums. Quantitative and qualitative data analyses allowed us to identify both strengths and weaknesses. The participants highlighted strengths in the areas of teaching strategies, critical thinking skills and professional and pedagogical knowledge. Among the weaknesses, they identified limited supervision and feedback, and diverging views on teaching education between the university and the schools as the most difficult to deal with. These findings may be useful for introducing improvements in Initial Teacher Education aimed at reducing problems and discrepancies and devising suitable induction processes.

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