A survey of research foci and paradigms in media and communication Master's dissertations and doctoral theses in South Africa

Salawu, Abiodun; Oyero, Olusola; Moyo, Mathew; Moyo, Rachel

doi:10.1080/02500167.2016.1140667

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“…According to University of Auckland, research output is particular dissemination, publication, presentation, communication or pathway in which research is made available to people other than the author. Salawu, Oyero, Moyo, and Moyo (2016) claimed that research output can be obtained when the point of reference (controlled or uncontrolled database) containing the outputs is classified into subjects of which the performance or trend can be quantified and can be taken as the scholarly focus of the concerned institution.…”

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Self-Management and Employee Research Output in Selected Private Universities in Ogun State, Nigeria

Oba-Adenuga

Asikhia²,

Akpa³

2022

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The academic staff of universities plays a very important role in terms of the growth and development of nations’ economies. They make a positive contribution to the growth of a nation and are generally seen as the basis by which the needed high-level manpower or a country's development could be achieved. Despite the enormous contributions of the university sector, it is observed that their performance level especially in Nigeria is low compared to that of other nations. This is evident in declining research output. This challenge has been attributed to a variety of factors, including poor self-management. This study examined the interaction between emotional intelligence and employee performance in selected private universities in Ogun State, Nigeria. A research survey was employed in this study. The population was 1464 full-time academic staff of selected six private Universities in Ogun State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling, stratified sampling and simple random sampling techniques were adapted to obtain a response from all the cadres of the academic staff. The sample size of 308 was determined using Raosoft calculator. A structured and adapted questionnaire went through validity and reliability tests with Cronbach Alpha ranges between 0.728 and 0.954. The inferential statistics employed Pearson Moment Correlation Coefficient to test the hypothesis of the study. The study revealed that self-management had significant relationship with employee research output (r (296) = 0.803, p < 0.05). This study concluded that self-management affects employee research output in selected private universities in Ogun State, Nigeria. It was therefore recommended that private universities should continue to improve their academic staff’s personal development skills in order to help improve their organization's personal development. This can be achieved through sending their academic staff to conferences/workshop, seminars, and training programmes. Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0955/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

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Self-Management and Employee Research Output in Selected Private Universities in Ogun State, Nigeria

Oba-Adenuga

Asikhia²,

Akpa³

2022

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“…Most journalists in Africa are trained in linear direction of journalism practice based on the orientations of founders of the institutes who received their own education from the West without consideration for emerging needs of the current times. The journalism practice of the early times in Africa was political in nature (Salawu, Oyero, Moyo, & Moyo, 2016), and such was the direction of journalism education received. Nationalism struggles and other political interests formed the basis of early journalism practice in Africa, and so developmental issues such as child rights were not envisaged.…”

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Building Media Capacity for Children Sustainability in Africa: Educational and Partnership Imperatives

Oyero

Salawu

2018

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The "African common position" during the Special Session of United Nations (UN) General Assembly on children was that "Today's investment in children is tomorrow's peace, stability, security, democracy and sustainable development." However, the African child remains the most neglected species in the continent as millions of them are still living in poverty, deprived of education, suffer from malnourishment and discrimination, abandoned and vulnerable to abuses including being used as child soldiers in warfare. This situation demands a revisitation of the world union's call to care for the interest of the child as specified in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In this regard, the media is fingered as having a role to play in ensuring the realization of children's many unfulfilled dreams, a responsibility that requires greater capacity. Unfortunately, the current African media capacity for children is very low, a situation traceable to lack of skills and inadequate knowledge base. It is in this direction that this article argues that African media requires an educational framework purposely devoted to children and instituted within the media training purview, as well as partnership to effectively cater for the interest of the child in ensuring sustainable generation for the Continent.

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“…During apartheid, the country had four categories of universities, divided along racial lines. Those were universities for Blacks, Whites, Indians, and Coloureds (The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2003, p. 79; Salawu et al , 2016). Among the Black universities, there were further sub-divisions along ethnic lines, such as the University of Bophuthatswana that was almost exclusively a BaTswana university.…”

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An analysis of interlibrary loan services: a case study of a university in South Africa

Bangani

Chizwina

Moyo

2018

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Purpose The landscape of teaching, learning and research has changed requiring the need for diverse information resources. Given the current budgetary constraints and financial conditions prevailing in many universities, sharing of information resources has become a necessity. The Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services have thus become an important service to meet the immediate needs of library users. The aim of this paper is to analyse the ILL services of the North-West University in South Africa from 2006 to 2016. Using statistical data, the paper shows the emerging pattern in borrowing and lending between institutions as well as determines the existence of correlations between borrowing and lending libraries. The results of this study show that ILL amongst libraries has decreased in the past 11 years. A need exists for increased awareness of ILL and there is need for technological innovations that will ensure that library users are able to request for information resources seamlessly. Design/methodology/approach This is a quantitative study that uses ILL data from the North-West University. Data were downloaded from the SABINET ILL system using the three NWU JC codes. They were then collated and uploaded on excel spreadsheets. In the main, the excel spreadsheets were used to interpret the data. Further, the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software, in particular Spearman’s Correlation Analysis, was used to test correlations between data from libraries that requested information resources from NWU and data from libraries that supplied information resources to NWU during this period using Rumsey’s guidelines to interpret the correlations. Findings The findings of the study reveal that ILL among libraries in South Africa had generally declined owing mostly to the proliferation of online resources resulting to changes in user information-seeking behaviour. The decline is despite the challenges of low budgets received by most libraries for the acquisition of information resources. It can also be concluded that public university libraries still value ILL as demonstrated by the high number of items requested from other libraries. The findings also reveal that most ILL activities were conducted by public universities. Research limitations/implications It was not possible to obtain the list of titles that have been requested and also to obtain the user’s details. This would have enabled the authors to determine the type of titles that are being requested, and the users that request them. Practical implications ILL should continue to be enhanced in view of the challenge of dwindling library budgets against the escalating prices of information resources. There is also a need for user education so that they become aware of the ILL service. From experience, library users normally give up once they realize that what they wanted is not available through the local catalogue and this calls for librarians to create an awareness to users that ILL could help solve their frustrations. Social implications These results show that ILL can play a significant role to level the playing field between the well-resourced libraries in urbanized regions or provinces and the poorly resourced ones in rural regions or provinces. This social justice aspect of ILL is probably the reason why better resourced libraries in South Africa have decided to remain in the scheme unlike other countries where better resourced libraries opted out of reciprocal arrangements with small and medium-sized institutions. Originality/value The study adds to a very limited number of studies emanating from Africa. A study of this nature has never been conducted in Africa, as previous studies were nationwide studies. As far as the authors know, this is the first study that uses ILL data to research the impact of the global financial crisis on libraries in Africa.

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A survey of research foci and paradigms in media and communication Master's dissertations and doctoral theses in South Africa

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Self-Management and Employee Research Output in Selected Private Universities in Ogun State, Nigeria

Self-Management and Employee Research Output in Selected Private Universities in Ogun State, Nigeria

Building Media Capacity for Children Sustainability in Africa: Educational and Partnership Imperatives

An analysis of interlibrary loan services: a case study of a university in South Africa

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