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    INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CULTURE: A GROWING NEED FOR UNIVERSITY EDUCATORS.
    (International Journal of Business, Management & Social Sciences Vol.ii, Issue7(1), 2013-03-01) Nezandonyi, Jacob
    This study analyzes the development of interdisciplinary research culture (IDRC) among the 21st century university educators. Increased demand for interdisciplinary research skills by the society prompted this research study. The few universities that offer interdisciplinary study programs indicated that interdisciplinary research principles must be enforced at departmental and institutional level. The university educators must do a compulsory diversity training course that is tied to tenure. Institutional leadership plays a crucial role in developing (IDRC). University leaders should facilitate interdepartmental and inter-university cross disciplinary research activities.
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    Enhancement of professionalism among beginner university teachers
    (Kenya Journal of Education Planning, Economics & management, 2012-02-12) Nezandonyi, Jacob
    University teachers play a very important role of grooming educational learners. They are responsible for grooming highly skilled manpower that develop and sustain national economy. Beginner university teachers come with varied academic and professional qualifications. Some of them come straight from university whilst the others will be coming from the industry. On attaining higher degrees, teachers from high school, teacher education and polytechnics also join the university education system. Beginner university teachers must receive proper socialization from the university. Such socialization is called beginner teacher induction and it has to be offered very early before the new teachers experience a lot of adjustment problems. The nature of induction received by a beginner university teacher has a bearing on his/her professionalism. In order to nurture competent teachers, university leadership and its advisory committee must appoint mentors who will in turn design, develop and implement induction programs for beginner teachers. Beginner teachers’ induction programs will develop new teachers into lifelong learner masters. Accreditation of such teaching qualifications has to be done by the concerned university or a regional board that controls higher education teaching qualifications. Research showed that inducted beginner teachers stayed in their respective institutions and profession for a longer time than those without. Inducted teachers also performed better than non-inducted ones in classroom instructional practice and overall learner performance.
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    AN ANALYSIS OF PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS AMONG SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (SET)
    (Kenya Journal of Education , Planning, Economics & Management., 2012-04-05) Nezandonyi, Jacob
    Whilst educational instruction aims at enabling learners to solve problems, there seem to be less written or oral discussion on learning how to solve problems than knowing the answers. Social, economic and technological dynamics are creating diverse and novel problems that require well thought out solutions. As such it is necessary to teach problem solving (learning skills, tools, procedures, planning and evaluation processes) to learners. In order to investigate this important task a qualitative research approach was adopted. Data were collected from four focus groups of science, engineering and technology (SET) programme learners at two higher learning institutions in Harare urban. Purposive sampling method was used for selecting research participants. Twenty four students responded to ten open ended interview questions that solicited students’ awareness of problem solving skills, procedures and tools. Data from text books, internet and non –participant observations were collected, analyzed and interpreted. The results revealed that the majority of the learners do not know anything about problem solving techniques/procedures. The other group constituting about a quarter of the population believe that research and hard working promote problem solving ability but they lack the principles and skills of problem solving. A very small group indicated that they are aware of how to plan, maneuver learning processes and evaluate their performances. The study recommends that teachers must teach (SET) learners heuristics that form the basis of all problem solving activities. Learners must know the principles, skills, tools and constraint analysis processes involved in problem solving activities. These aspects must be imbedded in classroom learning activities, out of classroom assignments and examinations