The Transformative Paradigm: Equipping Technical Communication Researchers for Socially Just Work

Phelps, Johanna L.

doi:10.1080/10572252.2020.1803412

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“…The study aimed to enhance performance in accounting by using feedback as an AfL strategy. It was conducted within the transformative paradigm, which provided a well-established and designed framework for promoting transformation, inclusivity, and democracy (Phelps, 2021). The participants engaged in open dialogues that fostered the mutual exchange of ideas (Thambinathan & Kinsella, 2021).…”

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Evaluation of feedback as an assessment for learning strategy in accounting education

Motsoeneng,

Moreeng

2024

IJER

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Feedback is essential for the development and progress of learners in subjects like accounting. Teachers provide the necessary information about completed work and an opportunity for learners to improve. However, the literature indicates that teachers often struggle to provide effective feedback due to a lack of knowledge in feedback practices that facilitate learning. This study utilised critical pedagogy as a theoretical framework to create a meaningful, just, and conducive learning environment that can change and improve the educational conditions of accounting teachers. Furthermore, the study employed a qualitative research approach with Participatory Action Research (PAR) as the research design, allowing participants to take action to create a transformed teaching and learning environment that provides effective feedback. The study included five participants, selected using purposeful sampling, and data was generated from focus group meetings and workshops. Thematic analysis was employed to analyse the qualitative data. The findings indicated that accounting teachers used procedural and evaluative feedback methods to provide feedback, which was found to be ineffective, discouraging, and unclear to learners. However, as PAR was used as a research design, the subsequent findings after the workshop revealed that accounting teachers found descriptive feedback to be an effective method to improve learning. Learners found it to be specific and provide guidance and support.

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Evaluation of feedback as an assessment for learning strategy in accounting education

Motsoeneng,

Moreeng

2024

IJER

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“…The history of the Common Rule warrants further reading, especially for researchers who work with human participants. Modernizing revisions to the Common Rule better address the highly criticized issues of positivism and paternalism (London, 2012;Phelps, 2020aPhelps, , 2021b as well as the technological advances that were not anticipated in the late 20th century. Most important, the ethical considerations that undergird IRB policies and review are not simply paradigmatic or disciplinary concerns but rather represent a concern for justice for the whole human community.…”

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“…Elsewhere I have discussed the possibilities of more clear paradigmatic articulations in TPC scholarship (Phelps, 2021b). More than identifying a framework with which individual researchers align themselves or categorizing their work, I ask here for researchers to recognize and reflect on these multifaceted spectra, the many divergent and topsy-turvy frames that build a framework for justice, and how they correspond to TPC after the social justice turn.…”

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Concomitant Ethics: Institutional Review Boards and Technical and Professional Communication's Social Justice Turn

Phelps

2022

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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This article historicizes the impact of the Common Rule, which mandates the existence of Institutional Review Boards, on technical and professional communication (TPC) research with a focus on the principle of justice. Justice is discussed as a complex principle that must be internally and coherently balanced along several axes in the design, implementation, and promulgation of research in technical communication. The author proposes that with shared language, which in this article begins with one principle—justice—TPC researchers can more plainly articulate their positions in the development and dissemination of scholarship, thereby adding coherence to ethical work in the 21st century.

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“…Furthermore, this paper discussed how to implement and assess the PBI method and how to improve curriculum development for this engineering course [3].…”

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Challenges Faced by Technical Communication Educators in the Field of ICT- A Systemic Study

Subramanian¹

2022

Integr. J. Res. Arts Humanities

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The article examines ways and means of using computers in technical communication classrooms, including the ways in which we address literacy and humanistic issues through our current instruction. Over the next decade and through the next century, we will face three pedagogical challenges as we use computer technology to support our teaching initiatives. A knowledge-based and globalized society would not be possible without ICTs (Information and Communications Technologies). The 21st century workforce and the institutions that prepare them for it must adapt to as much change as there is in ICT itself. As a global phenomenon, ICT is posed as a major challenge and an opportunity for television education. As well as the issues and potential solutions to their effective integration in TVET, the chapter describes TVET's meaning, philosophy, objectives, types of ICT, and role in TVET.

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The Transformative Paradigm: Equipping Technical Communication Researchers for Socially Just Work

Cited by 13 publications

References 46 publications

Evaluation of feedback as an assessment for learning strategy in accounting education

Evaluation of feedback as an assessment for learning strategy in accounting education

Concomitant Ethics: Institutional Review Boards and Technical and Professional Communication's Social Justice Turn

Challenges Faced by Technical Communication Educators in the Field of ICT- A Systemic Study

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