As the discourses of the “technological imperative” and student-centred learning have gained momentum in university teaching and learning, one way for the lecturer to signal excellence has been to adopt the flexible, student-centred practices of online teaching. This thesis investigates academics’ insights and experiences about their changing teacher identities in the context of being, or becoming, a facilitator of online student learning. This was an empirical research project, a collective case study that explored the teaching experiences of twelve university lecturers in two Australian universities who taught online, or were making the move online. Primary research data were drawn from semi-structured conversations with the lecturers, online teaching artefacts and email communications. The interpretative analysis was organised according to three overlapping lecturer identities: the teaching metaphors of performance, care and creative direction. From the perspective of each metaphor position, the move to becoming a facilitator of blended learning was uneasy. The performer/carer/director lecturer struggled to entertain, care and intervene in familiar ways in asynchronous, computer-mediated communication. Online, the performing/caring/directing lecturer was ignored by students, and became instead a helpless and highly reflexive bystander to students’ learning. The findings suggest that the teaching values and practices of the performing/caring/directing lecturer, in particular lecturer-student responsiveness and reciprocity, do not adapt to online pedagogies. Indeed, blended learning establishes the conditions for a new moral order in university education, with the move to online facilitation best understood as a move to management-centred regulation of teaching and student learning. And so, overlooked in higher education policy and research, and ignored by her students online, the performing/caring/directing lecturer is under erasure, at the same time as the work of the facilitator is being archived.

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As the discourses of the “technological imperative” and student-centred learning have gained momentum in university teaching and learning, one way for the lecturer to signal excellence has been to adopt the flexible, student-centred practices of online teaching. This thesis investigates academics’ insights and experiences about their changing teacher identities in the context of being, or becoming, a facilitator of online student learning. This was an empirical research project, a collective case study that explored the teaching experiences of twelve university lecturers in two Australian universities who taught online, or were making the move online. Primary research data were drawn from semi-structured conversations with the lecturers, online teaching artefacts and email communications. The interpretative analysis was organised according to three overlapping lecturer identities: the teaching metaphors of performance, care and creative direction. From the perspective of each metaphor position, the move to becoming a facilitator of blended learning was uneasy. The performer/carer/director lecturer struggled to entertain, care and intervene in familiar ways in asynchronous, computer-mediated communication. Online, the performing/caring/directing lecturer was ignored by students, and became instead a helpless and highly reflexive bystander to students’ learning. The findings suggest that the teaching values and practices of the performing/caring/directing lecturer, in particular lecturer-student responsiveness and reciprocity, do not adapt to online pedagogies. Indeed, blended learning establishes the conditions for a new moral order in university education, with the move to online facilitation best understood as a move to management-centred regulation of teaching and student learning. And so, overlooked in higher education policy and research, and ignored by her students online, the performing/caring/directing lecturer is under erasure, at the same time as the work of the facilitator is being archived.

As the discourses of the “technological imperative” and student-centred learning have gained momentum in university teaching and learning, one way for the lecturer to signal excellence has been to adopt the flexible, student-centred practices of online teaching. This thesis investigates academics’ insights and experiences about their changing teacher identities in the context of being, or becoming, a facilitator of online student learning. This was an empirical research project, a collective case study that explored the teaching experiences of twelve university lecturers in two Australian universities who taught online, or were making the move online. Primary research data were drawn from semi-structured conversations with the lecturers, online teaching artefacts and email communications. The interpretative analysis was organised according to three overlapping lecturer identities: the teaching metaphors of performance, care and creative direction. From the perspective of each metaphor position, the move to becoming a facilitator of blended learning was uneasy. The performer/carer/director lecturer struggled to entertain, care and intervene in familiar ways in asynchronous, computer-mediated communication. Online, the performing/caring/directing lecturer was ignored by students, and became instead a helpless and highly reflexive bystander to students’ learning. The findings suggest that the teaching values and practices of the performing/caring/directing lecturer, in particular lecturer-student responsiveness and reciprocity, do not adapt to online pedagogies. Indeed, blended learning establishes the conditions for a new moral order in university education, with the move to online facilitation best understood as a move to management-centred regulation of teaching and student learning. And so, overlooked in higher education policy and research, and ignored by her students online, the performing/caring/directing lecturer is under erasure, at the same time as the work of the facilitator is being archived.

MPH / Department of Public Health / Abstract Lecturers are important agents in the provision of tertiary education at Technical Vocational Education and Training Colleges, however their effectiveness is highly compromised by health related factors. Lecturers can be exposed to variety of hazards in the workplace owing to chemicals, biological agents, physical factors, adverse ergonomic conditions, allergens and a complex network of safety risks. This conditions can led to the development of certain health related factors that can intern impose negative effects on lecturers job performance. The aim of the study was to determine the health-related factors affecting lecturers’ job performance at Vhembe Technical Vocational Education and Training College. A quantitative approach in the form of a survey, using a descriptive research design, was used in this study. Data was collected from permanent lecturers at Vhembe Technical Vocational Education and Training College. Total sampling was used due to the number of lecturers which is already low. A total of 250 respondents were used to collect data, with edge ranges from 26 to 60 years. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data regarding demographic characteristics, physical health problems, emotional problems, mental health problems and chronic diseases. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 25.0 was used to analyse the data. Validity and reliability was ensured. The researcher also observed the primary ethical principles upon which standards of ethical conduct in research was based. The results of this study indicate that health related factors affect lecturers’ job performance. About 85% of the respondents indicated that they are absent from work due to work related problems. More than 50% of the respondents revealed that lecturers consult doctors several times within a year due to health related problems, are affected by emotional problems, mental health problems, physical health problems as well as chronic diseases. It is recommended that Management should address the issue of absenteeism comprehensively. An institution of higher learning should have a clinic which is fully supplied with medicines including health professionals such as registered Nurses. Management should employ registered counsellors and registered Psychometrics. Management should put in place health-promoting conditions within the campuses. Giving lecturers reasonable amount of work load would be useful. Management should develop a plan to monitor and evaluate the working environment. Lecturers should organise their work and prioritise activities to avoid rush production. / NRF

Yes / Despite large number of universities and institutions offering management degrees and interest in the field of entrepreneurship, very less is known about the perception of business lecturers regarding the subject of entrepreneurship, dominant pedagogy, their commitment to teaching and institutional support. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Considering this, the study was carried out with structured questionnaire among 232 lecturers of business management from selected management schools of these three South Asian countries, India, Singapore and Malaysia. In response to chief objective of the study, i.e. commitment of lecturers to teach entrepreneurship, it was found that almost 85 per cent of the respondents have shown that they feel fully committed to teach entrepreneurship and almost 35 per cent of the respondents feel that they will be unwilling to exchange current entrepreneurship teaching for teaching in other subjects. In the same vein, almost 50 per cent of the lecturers agree that their institution is keen to develop entrepreneurship education. However, in relation to training and staff development, it is found that almost 38 per cent of the lecturers have not received such a support. The study provides insight about the level of commitment that business lecturers depict to teach entrepreneurship and resources provided to them by their institute to engage in entrepreneurship education.

Magistro darbe yra suformuluotos dėstytojų kvalifikacijos kėlimo problemos šiuolaikinėje aukštojoje mokykloje. Išanalizuota kvalifikacijos kėlimo motyvacijos, naujų kompetencijų įgijimo ir nuolatinio mokymosi svarba aukštųjų mokyklų dėstytojų darbe. Pateiktos ir susistemintos kvalifikacijos, kompetencijos ir kompetentingumo sampratos interpretacijos, remiantis įvairių Lietuvos ir užsienio mokslininkų darbais. Išsamiai išanalizuotos dėstytojų darbui reikalingos kompetencijos, kvalifikacijos kėlimo strategijų ir būdai taikymo ypatumai. Aptarti reikalavimai, keliami dėstytojų pareigybėms ir atestacijos reikšmė šiuolaikinėje aukštojoje mokykloje. Atliktas tyrimas, dėstytojų nuomonei, apie kvalifikacijos k���limo svarbą, motyvaciją ir vertinimą aukštosiose mokyklose, nustatyti. / In this master‘s work there are stated many problems concerned with lecturer‘s qualification development in modern high school. It has been analized the motivations of the qualification development, the points in getting the new competention and importancy in the permanent learning in the work of high school lecturer‘s. The qualifications, competentions and the interpretations of the competency conceptions there presented and structured by academical works of Lithuanian and foreign scientists. In this master‘s work the competentions, qualification development and their applying peculiarities has been analyzed. The demands which are raised in lecturer‘s incumbency and the meaning of their atestation in modern high school has been emphasized. The purpose of accomplished research was to estimate lecturer‘s opinion in the importancy of qualification development, the motivation and it‘s evaluation in high school.

The present study was a qualitative research study aimed to explore and describe the role of the lecturer in the subjective well-being of first-year education students. This research utilised secondary data that was collected for a prior study, comprising essays completed by first-year education students at the University of Pretoria. 125 students from randomly selected modules participated in the original study. The narratives concerned how the students described their lecturers as motivating and demotivating. The narratives, completed by male and female students, were selected based on lengthy, content-rich narratives. An inductive thematic analysis was completed to explore and analyse the data from a qualitative, interpretivist perspective. The five dimensions of the PERMA model (Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishment) guided and were used as the theoretical framework of the present study to help understand students’ subjective well-being (Seligman, 2011). Three themes emerged from the students’ descriptions of their lecturers as motivating. The findings suggest that the students were motivated when their lecturers utilised effective teaching approaches, facilitated a positive student-lecturer relationship and when students felt satisfied with their learning. One theme emerged where the students described their lecturer as demotivating; this was the case when their lecturers used ineffective teaching approaches. All five dimensions of the PERMA model were identified when students felt motivated by their lecturers, while two dimensions of the PERMA model were identified when students felt demotivated by their lecturers. There is a need for lecturer training programmes aimed at increasing the awareness of the lecturers’ role in student motivation and student subjective well-being, as well as teaching practises that aim to promote student motivation. Consequently, student subjective well-being can be valuable to universities in improving students’ academic success as well as their subjective well-being. / Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2019. / Educational Psychology / MEd / Unrestricted

Often academic departments have little knowledge about the course content that is presented by similar departments at other universities. This study aims to investigate the economics curricula offered by South African universities in order to contribute to the quality and content of the economics courses. International best practices with regard to the structure and content of, as well as the logistics behind an economics curriculum are identified, and the economics curricula offered by South African universities are compared to these international best practices. This study is attempted through gathering of available open source information as well as conducting a survey study to determine the status quo situation with regard to various issues relating to the economics curricula offered at South African universities. In terms of the structure of an economics curriculum, a benchmark tree structure is drawn from international best practices. To compare the structure of the economics curricula offered by the South African universities included in this study to international best practices, a tree structure of each university's curriculum is drafted in the same format as the benchmark tree structure. These tree structures are used to determine how each university's curriculum complies to international best practices. The textbooks that are used in a course are thought to be an indication of the content of that course. Therefore, the textbooks that are used by the different universities in each course are indicated in this study. With regard to the logistical aspects of an economics curriculum, e.g. student/lecturer ratios, the actual situation at most universities differs substantially from international best practices. International best practices suggest class sizes of no more than 25 students. Student-lecturer ratios in economics courses offered by South African universities are far remote from this. / Thesis (M.Com. (International Commerce))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:29:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Regina Mara Jurgielewecz 1.pdf: 1517937 bytes, checksum: 46439776a1d655cfd8dadf4227a5d873 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-11-17 / This research aim is to study the involvement with education through the technique reflection group with lecturers. The focus of it is to reflect upon education as well as to favour the resolution of tensions generated by the activities executed by the subjects of the research. It was studied the transference of the lecturers in relation to education as well as the links with their pupils, colleagues and institution using their speeches. The setting of this work was more restricted than the setting of the therapeutic group . For the development of this research it was used the reflection group (DELAROSSA, 1979) orientated towards a psychoanalytical approach. This group was set up by four lecturers, volunteers in a public institution, from both sexes and several ages. Using the lecturer s verbal and non verbal reports it was done a qualitative analysis according to the requirements of the psychoanalytic theory. The difficulties experienced by the members of this reflection group confirmed the existence of resistance to the identification with the feminine, as well as the idiosyncrasies of the transferential process experienced in the group. The obstacle to the execution of this proposed task is given to the processes that occurred unconsciously such as the basic propositions of dependence and of fight/escape; by persecutory and depressive anxieties and issues linked to the regressive process of primary narcissism. / A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar o envolvimento com a educa??o por meio da t?cnica grupo de reflex?o com professores universit?rios. Objetivou, portanto, refletir sobre a educa??o, bem como favorecer a elabora??o das tens?es geradas pelas atividades das fun??es executadas pelos sujeitos da pesquisa. Estudou-se a transfer?ncia dos professores em rela??o ? Educa??o, bem como os v?nculos com seus alunos, colegas e institui??o, a partir de suas falas. O campo de trabalho formado foi mais restrito que o campo de um grupo terap?utico. Para o desenvolvimento dessa pesquisa foi utilizada a t?cnica de grupo de reflex?o (DELAROSSA, 1979) orientada por uma abordagem psicanal?tica. O grupo foi constitu?do por quatro professores universit?rios, volunt?rios de uma institui??o p?blica, ambos os sexos e idades variadas. Dos relatos verbais e n?o verbais dos professores, foi realizada uma an?lise qualitativa conforme os pressupostos da teoria psicanal?tica. As dificuldades vividas pelos integrantes desse grupo de reflex?o confirmaram a exist?ncia da resist?ncia ? identifica??o com o feminino, bem como ?s peculiaridades do processo transferencial vivido em grupo. A execu??o da tarefa proposta ao grupo foi obstaculizada por determina??o de processos inconscientes tais como os pressupostos b?sicos de depend?ncia e de luta/fuga; por ang?stias persecut?ria e depressiva e quest?es ligadas ao processo regressivo do narcisismo prim?rio.