In this study systems thinking approaches were applied to uncover the structure of the e-learning practitioner construct. Assumptions abducted from the systemic view of the e-learning practitioner construct hold that the e-learning practitioner system involves the e-learning practitioner and the e-learning practice as two subsystems that interact in the e-learning work environment. The characteristics of the subsystems are patterned to reflect their respective structures, which collaboratively construe the structure of the e-learning practitioner system. Different lenses were used to take ’snapshots’ and to illuminate the separate parts (the environment, the e-learning practitioner and the e-learning practice) of the system and to tell the e-learning practitioner’s story. Work behavioural styles expressed in terms of DISC language were used to describe a particular aspect of work personality structure. A personality-orientated job analysis, namely the Human Job Analysis, was used to identify and describe job characteristics and job structure. Person characteristics from the individual and characteristics from the job are the inputs into the e-learning practitioner system, and through a process of reciprocal interaction lead to certain outputs, for example person-job (P-J) fit, moderated by environmental influences, and constantly monitored by feedback systems. Environmental changes act as drivers in the system and practical interventions, such as the implementation of support programmes, job redesign and career development, may be applied as leverage points to change the output, for example to create a number of P-J fit scenarios. The characteristics of each subsystem and their relationships form the building blocks of the system structured in an e-learning P-J fit triad. Triad congruence is dependent on the characteristics of each leg of the triad, as well as influences and drivers from the environment. The different parts work together towards a specific goal according to a specific plan driven by organising principles to fulfil a common purpose, which gives meaning to the system. Different scenarios may alter the congruence of these three legs, which may then emerge in different configurations from their latent position. To gain a better understanding of this construct, a case study was applied focusing on the characteristics and work behavioural styles of e-learning practitioners in the e-learning work environment at the Tshwane University of Technology. A bricolage of data collection methods and instruments was applied to collect evidence for answering the research questions. Rich and varied sources of data, for example interviews, participant observation, documents and archival records, were tapped during the data collection phase. Data analysis included quantitative and qualitative analysis, and reasoning though both inductive and abductive logic. Synthesis of these research findings resulted in a classifying scheme as a form for expressing the latent structure of the five possible e-learning scenarios to answer the main research question: “What is the latent structure of the e-learning practitioner construct?” The study focused on the creation of knowledge about the ‘goodness of fit’ between the e-learning practitioner and the e-learning job in the e-learning environment by using the combined languages of systems thinking and the DISC profiling system. The uniqueness of this study pertains to the following: -- the interplay between the characteristics of e-learning practitioners, the e-learning practice and the e-learning environment; -- P-J fit scenarios in the e-learning environment, and -- a classification scheme for the e-learning practitioner construct displaying five categories, namely job structure, job theme, person attributes, roles and applications against the dimensions of an environmental structuredness continuum. Findings from this research may support initiatives to establish benchmarks for the e-learning practitioner job description. Practical applications may be useful to practitioners using electronic learning management systems and to planners of staff development and e-learning training programmes. / Thesis (PhD (Curriculum Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Curriculum Studies / unrestricted

Wie kann ein Transfer zwischen Hochschule und Gesellschaft gelingen? Am Beispiel der Profillinie Bibliothekspädagogik im Masterstudiengang Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft an der Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig (HTWK Leipzig) wird gezeigt, wie durch eine enge Verknüpfung von Lehre und Praxis Studierenden ein Einstieg in gesellschaftliches Engagement ermöglicht wird. Die Bedingungen und positiven Faktoren des Gelingens von Service Learning von der organisatorischen Planung bis zur Umsetzung werden anhand dieses Beispiels dargestellt. Dabei wird nicht nur die Perspektive der Lernenden, sondern auch die der Lehrenden und der Praxiseinrichtungen betrachtet.

There is very little theoretical literature about theatrical improvisation as it connects to ideas and practices of relating and specifically to ideas and practices of social work relating. This thesis involves efforts to theorize moments of relating – of being with others – in improvisation. A group of hospital social workers and a group of PhD social work research students participated in the study. The participants took part in improvisational workshops designed specifically for the study, as well as one-on-one and group interviews. This thesis explores what was created between research participants in improvisational workshops: the response-ability to and for others; an experience of grappling with the desire for control; and an embodied apprehension of interdependence. The study demonstrates an embodied and uncomfortable experience of the dominance of individualism in our relating. The study also demonstrates ways in which the art of theatrical improvisation can allow us to take up the transformative promises of social constructionism in social work relating. The thesis aims to make living space for central social constructionist concepts such as mutual constitution and interdependence – to explore and consider what happens when we fully recognize and carry these out in our practices of relating. Providing a different way into these central social constructionist concepts, this study contributes to arts-informed research, teaching and practice. More specifically, the research shows how the art of improvisation can provide transformative possibilities for social work pedagogy and the social work classroom. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This thesis involves efforts to theorize moments of relating – of being with others – in improvisation. A group of hospital social workers and a group of PhD social work research students participated in the study. The participants took part in improvisational workshops designed specifically for the study, as well as one-on-one and group interviews. This thesis explores what was created between research participants in improvisational workshops: the response-ability to and for others; an experience of grappling with the desire for control; and an embodied apprehension of interdependence. The study demonstrates an embodied and uncomfortable experience of the dominance of individualism in our relating and provides an analysis of engagement in improvisation as an alternative to a framework of independence in social work. The study contributes potential for arts-informed research, teaching, and practice, as well as social work pedagogy as it demonstrates ways in which the art of improvisation can allow us to take up the transformative promises of social constructionism in social work relating.

Proposta de diálogo interdisciplinar entre Literatura e História, com o propósito de discutir de que forma o texto literário pode ser aproveitado nas aulas de História do Ensino Médio. Investigação da ideologia subjacente a livros didáticos do Ensino Médio e sua assimilação acrítica pelos alunos-leitores. Verificação e análise da presença ou não da Literatura em manuais didáticos do Ensino Médio, bem como da abordagem de fatos históricos ocorridos no Rio Grande do Sul, como a Revolução Farroupilha e a imigração italiana. Com ênfase no papel da educação e tendo como objeto de estudo o romance A Cocanha, de José Clemente Pozenato, procura sensibilizar a prática docente da área de História para a percepção de que a ficção literária constitui um instrumento eficaz no processo de ensino-aprendizagem. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-19T17:40:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Odilse G Engel.pdf: 615453 bytes, checksum: 8da10c1a15c3a917f4d08ed8ae2952e4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-19T17:40:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Odilse G Engel.pdf: 615453 bytes, checksum: 8da10c1a15c3a917f4d08ed8ae2952e4 (MD5) / Interdisciplinary dialogue approach proposal inserted between History and Literature, in order to discuss how a literary text can be used in History classes of High School. A research into the underneath ideology at educational books and their acritical assimilation by readerstudents. Checking and analysing the presence or not of Literature in High School educational text-books, as well as the approach of historical facts that happened in Rio Grande do Sul, like Revolução Farroupilha and Italian Immigration. Giving emphasis to the Educational role and having in mind, as a study object, the novel A Cocanha by José Clemente Pozenato, it looks for touching the teaching practice of History and allows to realize that literary fiction is an effective instrument(way) in teaching-learning process.

Proposta de diálogo interdisciplinar entre Literatura e História, com o propósito de discutir de que forma o texto literário pode ser aproveitado nas aulas de História do Ensino Médio. Investigação da ideologia subjacente a livros didáticos do Ensino Médio e sua assimilação acrítica pelos alunos-leitores. Verificação e análise da presença ou não da Literatura em manuais didáticos do Ensino Médio, bem como da abordagem de fatos históricos ocorridos no Rio Grande do Sul, como a Revolução Farroupilha e a imigração italiana. Com ênfase no papel da educação e tendo como objeto de estudo o romance A Cocanha, de José Clemente Pozenato, procura sensibilizar a prática docente da área de História para a percepção de que a ficção literária constitui um instrumento eficaz no processo de ensino-aprendizagem. / Interdisciplinary dialogue approach proposal inserted between History and Literature, in order to discuss how a literary text can be used in History classes of High School. A research into the underneath ideology at educational books and their acritical assimilation by readerstudents. Checking and analysing the presence or not of Literature in High School educational text-books, as well as the approach of historical facts that happened in Rio Grande do Sul, like Revolução Farroupilha and Italian Immigration. Giving emphasis to the Educational role and having in mind, as a study object, the novel A Cocanha by José Clemente Pozenato, it looks for touching the teaching practice of History and allows to realize that literary fiction is an effective instrument(way) in teaching-learning process.

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