A CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK FOR GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE (GISc) TRAINING AT SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES

Plessis, Heindrich du

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“…It also includes providing adequate teaching materials and resources such as textbooks (UNESCO, 2020). In addition, many rural primary schools do not have qualified teachers, this has contributed to high failure rate (du Plessis & van Niekerk, 2013). Therefore, there is a need for Government High-quality teacher training programs that focus on pedagogical skills, subject knowledge, and classroom management are crucial for improving educational outcomes (Dube & Hlalele, 2018).…”

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Suicide Among Rural Primary School Learners in Zimbabwe: An Epidemic in Need of Mitigation

Chidarikire,

Chikwati,

Chidarikire

2024

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Suicide among rural primary school learners Zimbabwe has reached epidemic proportions, yet there is dearth. However, the causes and potential mitigation strategies are still limited. This article aims to address that gap by exploring Zimbabwe rural primary learners' perspectives. Using a socio-cultural theoretical framework, this qualitative study will conduct focus group with 12 learners from Mahoto rural area, Masvingo North Constituency to elicit learners' lived experiences and suicide motivations. The data will undergo thematic analysis to identify key patterns and themes. Initial findings suggest that academic struggles without access to counselling drive many rural primary school learners to end their lives prematurely. This highlights the need for Zimbabwe's Government, through the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to urgently deploy professional counsellors. By giving voice to the disadvantaged rural learner suicide epidemic firsthand, this study seeks actionable strategies to stem the tragedy of learners’ suicide and promote the well-being of Zimbabwean rural learners.

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Suicide Among Rural Primary School Learners in Zimbabwe: An Epidemic in Need of Mitigation

Chidarikire,

Chikwati,

Chidarikire

2024

Pedagogi

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“…The EO4GEO is re‐engineered and expanded on the structure of GIS&T BoK and is focused on skill building to fill the gap between the supply and demand of education and training in space and geospatial sciences (Ahearn et al, 2013). In South Africa, a university course framework (du Plessis & Van Niekerk, 2014) was developed and customized to meet local and international requirements based on the GIS&T BoK. These projects reflect great interest in GIS‐related BoK development by various countries, organizations, and experts.…”

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Semantic similarity measure of natural language text through machine learning and a keyword‐aware cross‐encoder‐ranking summarizer—A case study using UCGIS GIS&T body of knowledge

Tian

Wang

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Initiated by the University Consortium of GeographicInformation Science (UCGIS), the GIS&T Body of Knowledge (BoK) is a community-driven endeavor to define, develop, and document geospatial topics related to geographic information science and technologies (GIS&T). In recent years, GIS&T BoK has undergone rigorous development in terms of its topic re-organization and content updating, resulting in a new digital version of the project. While the BoK topics provide useful materials for researchers and students to learn about GIS, the semantic relationships among the topics, such as semantic similarity, should also be identified so that a better and automated topic navigation can be achieved. Currently, the related topics are either defined manually by editors or authors, which may result in an incomplete assessment of topic relationships. To address this challenge, our research evaluates the effectiveness of multiple natural language processing (NLP) techniques in extracting semantics from text, including both deep neural networks and traditional machine learning approaches.Besides, a novel text summarization-KACERS (Keyword-Aware Cross-Encoder-Ranking Summarizer)-is proposed to generate a semantic summary of scientific publications.

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A CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK FOR GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE (GISc) TRAINING AT SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES

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Suicide Among Rural Primary School Learners in Zimbabwe: An Epidemic in Need of Mitigation

Suicide Among Rural Primary School Learners in Zimbabwe: An Epidemic in Need of Mitigation

Semantic similarity measure of natural language text through machine learning and a keyword‐aware cross‐encoder‐ranking summarizer—A case study using UCGIS GIS&T body of knowledge

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