Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Experiences and Attitudes of Student Teachers Towards the Organizational Culture of a Faculty of Education
Literature suggests a symbiotic relationship between organizational culture, organizational effectiveness and heightened stakeholder performance. Whereas a lot has been written on organizational culture, little, if any, especially in the context of South Africa has been documented about university students’ attitudes and experiences of organizational culture and implications for the transformation of higher education, as well …
Behavioural Therapy in Sri Madbhagvad Geeta
CBT is a lesser known technique of behavioral therapy which was augmented in the period of 1960s in the western world. The therapy is given to those people who are in a state of depression, emotionally unstable and suffering from a mental state where the subject is unable to take the correct decision. This mental …
Gamified Instruction in Teaching Physics and Its Effect on Students’ Motivation
Students in this present time are considered tech-savvy. They find the traditional method of teaching boring leading them to habitual absenteeism and causing them to perform poorly in class. This study aimed to integrate gamification – the use of game elements in non-game contexts – in teaching Grade 10 Physics and determine its effect on …
Investigating 9/11 Fiction on Screen: Exploration of Political Shifts in “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”
The cultural bifurcation is one of the essential elements which gained momentum after 9/11 and the hiatus between two different cultures is mostly driven by misunderstanding and mishandling of issues which are intensified by media and literature etc. The Reluctant Fundamentalist in this regard shares the concern of stereotyping the whole landscape and looking towards …
Training Teachers to Manage Culture and Identity Challenges in the Global Classroom
With the global migration of families, teachers from dominant cultures or languages have the responsibility to help minority and migrant students integrate into the community while positively engaging their native identities (McBrien, 2005). For this to occur, teachers must develop respect for the cultures of the minority or migrant communities with which they work (Cummins, …
Bring Your Own Device Policy Guidance in New Faculty Implementation
This presentation is a follow-up to initial findings of a Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) recommendation – over a policy – in a new faculty implementation that will show the difficulties and shortcomings of providing support to the new faculty of students within a newly established campus. The presenter will show student support success rates and unexpected capacity …
Pros and Cons to Cultural Diversity: From Bullying Perspective in Schools
This research study emphasizes on how the role of diverse cultures plays a substantial role with reference to individual’s school bullying experiences. In support of this, we are trying to arrive closer to the answers to majorly three questions throughout the research which are: How bullying affecting the child? How cultural diversity appears in bullying? …
Reading Strategy Instruction Through Students’ Cooperative Learning
One problem that is often seen in reading/translation classes is that students seem to know the meanings of all the vocabulary, however, the knowledge of words does not necessarily lead to a correct comprehension of a whole sentence, especially in terms of complex long sentences. With the use of dictionaries or online tools, one can …
Interdisciplinary Approach to Training Healthcare Professionals to Address the Effects of Adverse Childhood Events Using Simulation and Video Annotation
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are 10 categories of childhood abuse and maltreatment which have a dose-response relationship with common adult health concerns seen in healthcare settings including health risk behaviors, chronic disease, and mental illness. Many of the ACEs-associated biopsychosocial risk factors are modifiable. However, healthcare professionals may not address these issues for fear of …
Sociocultural Perspectives on Independent and Interdependent Identity Development in the Writers’ Workshop
The study of writing often focuses on text production or the cognitive events in producing writing. Issues of researching, teaching, and producing writing are further complicated from a sociocultural perspective, which posits that “good writing” is socially constructed, not universal (Woodard, R., & Kline, S., 2016). This presentation explores the Writers’ Workshop model from a …