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This study of ButIer's poetry proceeds chronologically in accordance with the dates of compos... more This study of ButIer's poetry proceeds chronologically in accordance with the dates of composition of his poems. The first task has, therefore, been the compilation of a chronology of his poems. Butler rarely dates his poems; nor does he keep a diary. Yet there are several criteria which make sensible dating of his poems possible. The first is the date of publication of individual poems. Many of the poems which appear in one or more of the five collections were published earlier in army magazines, student newspapers, and the like. A work which can be traced back to one of these early sources may be assumed to have been written fairly soon before its date of publication. Another criterion is subject. It is possible to discern periods in the poet's career in relation to the subjects of his poems. The most obvious example is the War Period. Allied to subject is the criterion of theme. To use the War Period again, poems written during or immediately after the war years all treat...
Entrepreneurs typically live with the ever present threat of business failure arising from limite... more Entrepreneurs typically live with the ever present threat of business failure arising from limited financial resources and aggressive competition in the marketplace. Under these circumstances, conflicting priorities arise and the entrepreneur is thus faced with certain dilemmas. In seeking to resolve these, entrepreneurs must often rely on their own judgment to determine ‘‘what is right’’. There is thus a need for a technique to assist them decide on a course of action when no precedent or obvious solution exists. This research paper examines how entrepreneurs experience and deal with these dilemmas. The research is based on interviews with seven entrepreneurs in established service-oriented ventures, which gave rise to 26 dilemmas. These dilemmas were analyzed by making use of the Synergy Star technique, which is introduced here as a tool that is useful in defining any dilemma, isolating the ethical component, and resolving the dilemma in a way that is congruent with the entreprene...
School-based mentoring has developed in response to a number of factors pertaining to the pre-ser... more School-based mentoring has developed in response to a number of factors pertaining to the pre-service education of student teachers and the in-service professional development of experienced teachers. Traditionally teacher education has consisted of universitybased theory with school-based practice, based on an understanding of professional learning as ‘theory into practice’. One of the problems with this model is that theory may come to seem too remote from practice, and that practice appears untheorised by remaining implicit and unproblematised. The one-year teachers’ diploma course offered by the Rhodes University Education Department incorporates a ten-week teaching practice slot. This protracted period has been useful in allowing frequent and consistent contact between university tutors and student teachers, and between mentor teachers and student teachers. Where the system has not been strong is in enabling meaningful collaboration among all three parties. A pilot school-based...
Education As Change, 2002
Identifying the weakness of poor qualitative research as lying in the absence of four, kinds of r... more Identifying the weakness of poor qualitative research as lying in the absence of four, kinds of rigour, the author subjects each to critical scrutiny. Ontologically, qualitative researchers have only a limited understanding that reality is socially constructed. This is reflected in a lack of epistemological rigour with examination of subjective interpretation, interview methods and triangulation. Special care must be given to "thick" description, whilst, finally, scientific enquiry is increasingly under siege.
The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 2008
The August 2004 edition of the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology (Volume 4, Edition 1) publis... more The August 2004 edition of the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology (Volume 4, Edition 1) published a paper on educational leadership reporting on research using a phenomenological research design. The article was accompanied by a request for submissions in and on education using or drawing on phenomenological methodologies. The eight papers in this edition are the result, and I am delighted to have been tasked with writing this brief route map through the pages that follow.
Entrepreneurs typically live with the ever-present threat of business failure arising from limite... more Entrepreneurs typically live with the ever-present threat of business failure arising from limited financial resources and aggressive competition in the marketplace. Under these circumstances, conflicting priorities arise and the entrepreneur is thus faced with certain dilemmas. In seeking to resolve these, entrepreneurs must often rely on their own judgment to determine ‘what is right’. There is thus a need for a technique to assist them decide on a course of action when no precedent or obvious solution exists. This research paper examines how entrepreneurs experience and deal with these dilemmas. The research is based on interviews with seven entrepreneurs in established service-oriented ventures, which gave rise to twenty-six dilemmas. These dilemmas were analyzed by making use of the Synergy Star technique, which is introduced here as a tool that is useful in defining any dilemma, isolating the ethical component, and resolving the dilemma in a way that is congruent with the entr...
South African Journal of Education
The notion of school management through teams (team management), though not a new phenomenon in S... more The notion of school management through teams (team management), though not a new phenomenon in South Africa, was formalized after the advent of democracy in 1994 and the subsequent reorganization of the education system. The concept was subsequently fleshed out in official documentation where the composition and roles of school management teams (SMTs) were elaborated upon. The notion of team management is rooted in theories that stress participation, notably site-based (school-based) management, teamwork, and distributed leadership. We report on a study in which the perceptions of secondary school principals, in Grahamstown, South Africa, of team management were explored. The study was interpretive in orientation, and utilized qualitative data gathering techniques in all (ten) of the state-aided secondary schools in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape province. We found that, while team management was generally welcomed and even celebrated by principals, there were fundamental tensions...
Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 2004
Varieties of English Around the World, 1996
School-based mentoring has developed in response to a number of factors pertaining to the pre-ser... more School-based mentoring has developed in response to a number of factors pertaining to the pre-service education of student teachers and the in-service professional development of experienced teachers. Traditionally teacher education has consisted of university- based theory with school-based practice, based on an understanding of professional learning as 'theory into practice'. One of the problems with this model is that theory may come to seem too remote from practice, and that practice appears untheorised by remaining implicit and unproblematised. The one-year teachers' diploma course offered by the Rhodes University Education Department incorporates a ten-week teaching practice slot. This protracted period has been useful in allowing frequent and consistent contact between university tutors and student teachers, and between mentor teachers and student teachers. Where the system has not been strong is in enabling meaningful collaboration among all three parties. A p...
Meditari Accountancy Research, 2003
Journal of Business Ethics, 2007
Meditari Accountancy Research, 2003
This study of ButIer's poetry proceeds chronologically in accordance with the dates of compos... more This study of ButIer's poetry proceeds chronologically in accordance with the dates of composition of his poems. The first task has, therefore, been the compilation of a chronology of his poems. Butler rarely dates his poems; nor does he keep a diary. Yet there are several criteria which make sensible dating of his poems possible. The first is the date of publication of individual poems. Many of the poems which appear in one or more of the five collections were published earlier in army magazines, student newspapers, and the like. A work which can be traced back to one of these early sources may be assumed to have been written fairly soon before its date of publication. Another criterion is subject. It is possible to discern periods in the poet's career in relation to the subjects of his poems. The most obvious example is the War Period. Allied to subject is the criterion of theme. To use the War Period again, poems written during or immediately after the war years all treat...
Entrepreneurs typically live with the ever present threat of business failure arising from limite... more Entrepreneurs typically live with the ever present threat of business failure arising from limited financial resources and aggressive competition in the marketplace. Under these circumstances, conflicting priorities arise and the entrepreneur is thus faced with certain dilemmas. In seeking to resolve these, entrepreneurs must often rely on their own judgment to determine ‘‘what is right’’. There is thus a need for a technique to assist them decide on a course of action when no precedent or obvious solution exists. This research paper examines how entrepreneurs experience and deal with these dilemmas. The research is based on interviews with seven entrepreneurs in established service-oriented ventures, which gave rise to 26 dilemmas. These dilemmas were analyzed by making use of the Synergy Star technique, which is introduced here as a tool that is useful in defining any dilemma, isolating the ethical component, and resolving the dilemma in a way that is congruent with the entreprene...
School-based mentoring has developed in response to a number of factors pertaining to the pre-ser... more School-based mentoring has developed in response to a number of factors pertaining to the pre-service education of student teachers and the in-service professional development of experienced teachers. Traditionally teacher education has consisted of universitybased theory with school-based practice, based on an understanding of professional learning as ‘theory into practice’. One of the problems with this model is that theory may come to seem too remote from practice, and that practice appears untheorised by remaining implicit and unproblematised. The one-year teachers’ diploma course offered by the Rhodes University Education Department incorporates a ten-week teaching practice slot. This protracted period has been useful in allowing frequent and consistent contact between university tutors and student teachers, and between mentor teachers and student teachers. Where the system has not been strong is in enabling meaningful collaboration among all three parties. A pilot school-based...
Education As Change, 2002
Identifying the weakness of poor qualitative research as lying in the absence of four, kinds of r... more Identifying the weakness of poor qualitative research as lying in the absence of four, kinds of rigour, the author subjects each to critical scrutiny. Ontologically, qualitative researchers have only a limited understanding that reality is socially constructed. This is reflected in a lack of epistemological rigour with examination of subjective interpretation, interview methods and triangulation. Special care must be given to "thick" description, whilst, finally, scientific enquiry is increasingly under siege.
The Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 2008
The August 2004 edition of the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology (Volume 4, Edition 1) publis... more The August 2004 edition of the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology (Volume 4, Edition 1) published a paper on educational leadership reporting on research using a phenomenological research design. The article was accompanied by a request for submissions in and on education using or drawing on phenomenological methodologies. The eight papers in this edition are the result, and I am delighted to have been tasked with writing this brief route map through the pages that follow.
Entrepreneurs typically live with the ever-present threat of business failure arising from limite... more Entrepreneurs typically live with the ever-present threat of business failure arising from limited financial resources and aggressive competition in the marketplace. Under these circumstances, conflicting priorities arise and the entrepreneur is thus faced with certain dilemmas. In seeking to resolve these, entrepreneurs must often rely on their own judgment to determine ‘what is right’. There is thus a need for a technique to assist them decide on a course of action when no precedent or obvious solution exists. This research paper examines how entrepreneurs experience and deal with these dilemmas. The research is based on interviews with seven entrepreneurs in established service-oriented ventures, which gave rise to twenty-six dilemmas. These dilemmas were analyzed by making use of the Synergy Star technique, which is introduced here as a tool that is useful in defining any dilemma, isolating the ethical component, and resolving the dilemma in a way that is congruent with the entr...
South African Journal of Education
The notion of school management through teams (team management), though not a new phenomenon in S... more The notion of school management through teams (team management), though not a new phenomenon in South Africa, was formalized after the advent of democracy in 1994 and the subsequent reorganization of the education system. The concept was subsequently fleshed out in official documentation where the composition and roles of school management teams (SMTs) were elaborated upon. The notion of team management is rooted in theories that stress participation, notably site-based (school-based) management, teamwork, and distributed leadership. We report on a study in which the perceptions of secondary school principals, in Grahamstown, South Africa, of team management were explored. The study was interpretive in orientation, and utilized qualitative data gathering techniques in all (ten) of the state-aided secondary schools in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape province. We found that, while team management was generally welcomed and even celebrated by principals, there were fundamental tensions...
Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, 2004
Varieties of English Around the World, 1996
School-based mentoring has developed in response to a number of factors pertaining to the pre-ser... more School-based mentoring has developed in response to a number of factors pertaining to the pre-service education of student teachers and the in-service professional development of experienced teachers. Traditionally teacher education has consisted of university- based theory with school-based practice, based on an understanding of professional learning as 'theory into practice'. One of the problems with this model is that theory may come to seem too remote from practice, and that practice appears untheorised by remaining implicit and unproblematised. The one-year teachers' diploma course offered by the Rhodes University Education Department incorporates a ten-week teaching practice slot. This protracted period has been useful in allowing frequent and consistent contact between university tutors and student teachers, and between mentor teachers and student teachers. Where the system has not been strong is in enabling meaningful collaboration among all three parties. A p...
Meditari Accountancy Research, 2003
Journal of Business Ethics, 2007
Meditari Accountancy Research, 2003