Knowledge,Narrative and National Reconciliation: Storied reflections on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission     

Melanie Walker  Elaine Unterhalter 《Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education》2004,25(2):279-297

This paper considers the educational work that narrative does. Against the context of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission that examined the crimes of apartheid, it discusses the narrative implications of South African poet Antjie Krog's multi-layered text of Truth Commission testimony, and autobiographical and philosophical musings. The paper argues that narrative points to education in four ways. The first involves research practices in which subjectivity and experience are acknowledged, celebrated and recognized to be powerful and compelling, allowing us to learn moral truths. Secondly, narrative can be utilised as part of a pedagogy of care, compassion and concern in which we ask questions regarding what it means to be taught by the lives of others, and how stories that are not our own speak to those we already have, enabling us to learn how to act morally through others' experiences. The third aspect of narrative is then the identity work it enables, offering the possibility for the reconstruction of the learning “I”, inflecting away from past perspectives to new ways of seeing. Through listening to others we might produce more accountable and more responsible knowledge. Fourthly, we explore how narratives might produce trustworthy accounts in which evidence is not endlessly plastic, but where the narrative form enlarges the scope for understanding. Throughout we show that individual and collective narratives are played out on a structural field, embedded in the political, social and historical conditions of a racial and gendered power, with real material effects.  相似文献   

A skills perception inventory for evaluating postgraduate transferable skills development     

Esat Alpay  Elaine Walsh 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2008,33(6):581-598

This article reports on the development, application and results of a skills evaluation inventory which was specifically designed to provide quantitative feedback on the effects of a three‐day residential training course attended by PhD students early in their research careers. The course was developed at Imperial College London, partly in response to the ‘Roberts’ agenda, which has highlighted the importance of transferable skills to the future careers of researchers. The questionnaire aims to measure student perceptions of their skill levels in four key areas. In addition a scale was included to measure changes in their general attitudes towards the benefits or otherwise of training in transferable skills. The inventory was administered at the very beginning and end of the course. Statistical analysis was used to refine the inventory and as a result all five scales were found to have good reliability. The results showed that after attending the course there were statistically significant increases in the participants’ perceived levels of skill in each area and a more positive attitude to skills development courses overall was demonstrated. Furthermore, differences in skill perceptions were observed depending on the gender and residential status of researchers. For example, female researchers were found to have generally lower levels of confidence than males, specifically for pre‐course beliefs on group work and communications skills. A further benefit is that the findings have helped to win respect and support for continued investment in the residential course programme.  相似文献   

One Model for Creating a Career Ladder for Library Support Staff     

Jane Fama  Associate Director  Elaine Martin  Director 《The Journal of Academic Librarianship》2009,35(5):475-481

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Determinants of professionally autonomous end user acceptance in an enterprise resource planning system environment     

Elaine Youngberg  David Olsen  Karina Hauser 《International Journal of Information Management》2009

To fully exploit the capabilities of complex technologies, businesses must deliberately foster technology acceptance by end users. This deliberate activity must recognize the complexity of factors that influence individuals’ perceptions, intentions, and usage of information technology. This study surveyed 66 professionally autonomous end users and gathered information on their perceptions related to several technology acceptance factors for a newly installed enterprise resource planning (ERP) system component. Study analyses focused on end user perceptions of ERP component usefulness, their intention to use the system, and self-reported usage of a system component. Valuable insights into the perceptions of professional end users toward a component of a complex technology were gained. Recommendations based upon the results of this study include: (a) clearly describe, early in the implementation process, an overall picture of the ERP system flow and visually show end users how the components they use “fit” into the whole system; (b) convert ERP-related “tech talk” to common end user language by either clear explanation of unique terms or associations of new terms to ones commonly understood by end users, and (c) provide adequate resources (financial, physical, human, etc.) to ensure that end users have access to timely support.  相似文献   

Specific binding and magnetic concentration of CD8+ T-lymphocytes on electrowetting-on-dielectric platform   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Shah GJ  Veale JL  Korin Y  Reed EF  Gritsch HA  Kim CJ 《Biomicrofluidics》2010,4(4):44106

In the quest to create a low-power portable lab-on-a-chip system, we demonstrate the specific binding and concentration of human CD8+ T-lymphocytes on an electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD)-based digital microfluidic platform using antibody-conjugated magnetic beads (MB-Abs). By using a small quantity of nonionic surfactant, we enable the human cell-based assays with selective magnetic binding on the EWOD device in an air environment. High binding efficiency (～92%)of specific cells on MB-Abs is achieved due to the intimate contact between the cells and the magnetic beads (MBs) produced by the circulating flow within the small droplet. MBs have been used and cells manipulated in the droplets actuated by EWOD before; reported here is a cell assay of a clinical protocol on the EWOD device in air environment. The present technique can be further extended to capture other types of cells by suitable surface modification on the MBs.  相似文献   

Internal review to assure quality     

Elaine El-Khawas  Tarla Shah 《Tertiary Education and Management》1998,4(2):95-101

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Socioeconomic Disparities in Language Input Are Associated With Children's Language-Related Brain Structure and Reading Skills     

Emily C. Merz  Elaine A. Maskus  Samantha A. Melvin  Xiaofu He  Kimberly G. Noble 《Child development》2020,91(3):846-860

The mechanisms underlying socioeconomic disparities in children's reading skills are not well understood. This study examined associations among socioeconomic background, home linguistic input, brain structure, and reading skills in 5-to-9-year-old children (N = 94). Naturalistic home audio recordings and high-resolution, T1-weighted MRI scans were acquired. Children who experienced more adult–child conversational turns or adult words had greater left perisylvian cortical surface area. Language input mediated the association between parental education and left perisylvian cortical surface area. Language input was indirectly associated with children's reading skills via left perisylvian surface area. Left perisylvian surface area mediated the association between parental education and children's reading skills. Language experience may thus partially explain socioeconomic disparities in language-supporting brain structure and in turn reading skills.  相似文献   

Proactive program evaluation docutech production publisher sales training program Part 2     

Elaine L. Lindheim 《Performance Improvement》1994,33(2):8-12

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Angles on Developing Consultation: First steps to making consultation our own     

Elaine Munro 《Educational Psychology in Practice》2000,16(1):53-58

This article provides an outline of some of the thinking and processes that Buckinghamshire Educational Psychology Service went through in making the move from a referral system to a consultation approach to service delivery. The article sets these changes in the Buckinghamshire context and raises issues for future consideration and planning by other educational psychology services.  相似文献   

Scholarship of Teaching: A model     

Keith Trigwell  Elaine Martin  Joan Benjamin  Michael Prosser 《高等教育研究与发展》2000,19(2):155-168

In this paper we present a model which describes the scholarship of teaching. We first explore what scholarship of teaching means, both in terms of the way it is represented in the literature and also the way it is understood by academic staff themselves. From this information, we derive a multi-dimensional model of scholarship of teaching which captures the variation found in the literature and empirical studies. In the final section, we illustrate how the model is used in informing the design of programs for development of the scholarship of teaching in universities.  相似文献