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Norma Romm
Norma Romm is a South African critical systems thinker interested in transformative research. She is a professor at the Department of Adult, Community, and Continuing Education at the University of South Africa. She was previously Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Swaziland and deputy director of the Centre for Systems Studies, at the University of Hull. Works * ''The Methodologies of Positivism and Marxism'' (1991) London: Macmillan * ''Accountability in Social Research'' (2001) Springer * ''New Racism: Revisiting Researcher Accountabilities'' (2010) Springer * ''Responsible Research Practice: Revisiting Transformative Paradigm in Social Research'' (2018) Springer References {{DEFAULTSORT:Romm, Norma Living people Academic staff of the University of South Africa Year of birth missing (living people) University of Eswatini The University of Eswatini (or UNESWA; formerly known as the University of Swaziland, or UNISWA) is the national university o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African People
According to the 2022 census, the population of South Africa is about 62 million people of diverse origins, cultures, Languages of South Africa, languages, and Religion in South Africa, religions, with a majority being Black Africans. The South African National Census of 2022 was the most recent census held; the next will be in 2032. In 2011, Statistics South Africa counted 2.1 million foreigners in total. Reports suggest that is an underestimation. The real figure may be as high as five million, including some three million Demographics of Zimbabwe, Zimbabweans. History The earliest creatures that can be identified as human ancestors in South Africa are Australopithecine, australopithecines. The first evidence of this was a Taung Child, child's skull found in the Taung quarry site. This was in the modern day North West (South African province), North-West province. More Fossil, fossils australopithecines were found in limestone caves Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, and Kromdraai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Critical Systems Thinking
Critical systems thinking (CST) is a systems thinking approach designed to aid decision-makers, and other stakeholders, improve complex problem situations that cross departmental and, often, organizational boundaries. CST sees systems thinking as essential to managing multidimensional 'messes' in which technical, economic, organizational, human, cultural and political elements interact. It is ''critical'' in a positive manner because it seeks to capitalize on the strengths of existing approaches while also calling attention to their limitations. CST seeks to allow systems approaches such as systems engineering, system dynamics, organizational cybernetics, soft systems methodology, critical systems heuristics, and others, to be used together, in a responsive and flexible way, to maximize the benefits they can bring. History CST has its origins in the 1980s with accounts of how the theoretical partiality of existing systems methodologies limited their ability to guide interventions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transformative Research
Transformative research is a term that became increasingly common within the science policy community in the 2000s for research that shifts or breaks existing scientific paradigms. The idea has its provenance in Thomas Kuhn's notion of scientific revolutions, where one scientific paradigm is overturned for another. Classic examples are the Copernican Revolution, Albert Einstein's theories, the work of Watson and Crick, and plate tectonics theory. The term has most been used by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), but it also shows up within other agencies. At the National Institutes of Health (NIH) the phrase is sometimes rendered as 'translational research' or 'high-risk, high-reward', which is defined as "research with an inherent high degree of uncertainty and the capability to produce a major impact on important problems in biomedical/behavioral research." NIH also has a Transformative Research Projects Program - R01. Within the European Research Council, the term is ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a 'person who professes'. Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word ''professor'' is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well, and often to instructors or lecturers. Professors often conduct original research and commonly teach undergraduate, postgraduate, or professional courses in their fields of expertise. In universities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of South Africa
The University of South Africa (UNISA) is the largest university system in South Africa by enrollment. It attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa. Through various colleges and affiliates, UNISA has over 400,000 students, including international students from 130 countries worldwide, making it one of the world's mega universities and the only such university in Africa. As a comprehensive university, Unisa offers both vocational and academic programmes, many of which have received international accreditation. It also has an extensive geographical footprint, providing its students with recognition and employability in many countries around the world. The university lists many notable South Africans among its alumni, including two Nobel Prize winners: Nelson Mandela, the first democratically elected president of South Africa, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Founded in 1873 as the University of the Cape of Good Hope, the University of South Africa (comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Swaziland
The University of Eswatini (or UNESWA; formerly known as the University of Swaziland, or UNISWA) is the national university of Eswatini. It was established by act of parliament in 1982. The university is developed from the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS), formerly known as the University of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland (UBBS), which was established in 1964. It became the University of Botswana and Swaziland when the Lesotho campus withdrew to form the National University of Lesotho on 20 October 1975, and then became an independent national university in 1982. The university has eight (8) faculties, which are located in the three campuses of the university. These are: Kwaluseni, Luyengo and Mbabane (K,L,M). Luyengo campus houses the Agriculture and Consumer Sciences faculties, Mbabane campus is home to the faculty of Health Sciences, and Kwaluseni campus is the main campus. The University of Eswatini is mainly an undergraduate instituti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
