Melanie Carmen Moen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4098880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie Carmen Moen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie Carmen |
| FAMILY NAME | Moen |
| SIGNATURE | MOEN M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9075-6642 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Academic Engagement, Learning Interest, and Psychological Well-being of Undergraduates
This study examines the impact of undergraduates’ gender and parental background on their psychological well-being, learning interest, and academic engagement. This study adopted the cross-sectional quantitative research type of the non-experimental design and was underpinned by the Self-determination Theory (ST). The study’s population consisted of 230 undergraduates enrolled in degree programmes at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti in Nigeria. T…
Promoting and Protecting the Developing Self-identity of the Young, Transracially Adopted Child in South Africa
The reality of transitioning from orphanages to family homes
Many young orphans in Zimbabwe grow up in residential care facilities, but according to governmental policies and literature in this field, these children should be transitioned to extended families to ensure optimal development. Thus, semi-structured interviews was conducted with a social worker, two residential care administrators and five extended families; whereas the participating orphans were asked to draw and narrate their lives in RCC and…
War Poetry of the Angolan/Namibian Border War
This article argues for a conceptualisation of war poetry as a corporeal re-membering that encapsulates trauma as literary theme through the ‘poetic bodies’ construct. The ‘poetic bodies’ concept implies that literary language, the physical and psychological body, and the environment interact to create ontological meaning through poetry. Therefore, the discussion takes place within a ‘poetic bodies’ epistemological framework, as it resonates with…
Attempted and Completed Parricides in South Africa, 1990–2019
Previous studies of parricide have been carried out predominantly in a Western context, in North America, Australia, and Western Europe. To date, only a handful of studies in parricide have been conducted in continental Africa. Previous studies in Ghana and Zimbabwe note that there may be culture-specific ways in which parricides may be shaped by the norms and cultural beliefs systems within those respective countries. Missing from the literature…
Indicators for the Measurement of Teachers' Professional Identity across Asia and Africa
The comprehensiveness of teacher professional identity (TPI) studies conducted by African and Asian researchers highlights the importance of valid TPI indicators across Africa and Asia. Questionnaire TPI indicators are important to obtain valid direct comparisons between teachers in Africa and Asia. The process of developing a questionnaire served as an avenue for researchers from Asian and African regions to learn about TPI pointers from each ot…
Disquiet Voices Foretelling Hope
South African teachers leave teaching due to factors such as lack of support and adverse working conditions. This study investigated rural teachers' resilience experiences of teaching in a resource-constrained school. A life history design was used to generate data. The research site was visited six times over 20 months. Fifteen interview-conversations were collected and transcribed. The results indicate that the teachers faced chronic poverty as…
Telling stories and adding scores
Telling stories and adding scores: Measuring resilience in young children affected by maternal HIV and AIDS", demonstrates how a concurrent mixed method design assisted cross-cultural comparison and ecological descriptions of resilience in young South African children, as well as validated alternative ways to measure resilience in young children. In a longitudinal randomised control trial, which investigated psychological resilience in mothers an…
Education for Democratic Citizenship through A Literacy‐based Approach
The study contextualises the position of child citizens in the S outh A frican democracy and highlights how education for democratic citizenship is employed through a literacy‐based approach. The qualitative study was exploratory and based on a lesson presented to nine‐year‐old township children by giving them language‐related tasks. Through the children's voices we present the life experiences that expressed their need for basic services, educat…
Adolescents' Views on the Power of Violence in a Rural School in South Africa
This study aims to explain how adolescents in a rural high school conceptualise school violence. Qualitative data were collected over two two-day periods (24 hours) through child-centred tasks like drawing and the completion of open-ended sentences, informal conversations regarding the given activities, observations documented as visual data (photographs), a research journal, and focus group discussions. In total, four boys and five girls partici…
Establishing a Reading Culture in a Rural Secondary School
The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the nature of a reading culture in a rural secondary school in South Africa before and after a literacy intervention. The systems theory with interpretivism as the epistemological paradigm was employed. A rural secondary school was selected as part of an on-going Flourishing Learning Youth and Supportive Teachers Assets and Resilience studies on resilience and rural schools. Language teachers …
How inclusive education is understood by principals of independent schools
Inclusive education has become a practice that has been adopted by many schools across the globe and most usually in first-world countries. As a whole-school system, it occurs less frequently in developing countries including South Africa which unlike many developing countries has a sound infrastructure and many excellent schools in both the state and the independent sectors. Education White Paper 6: Special education: Building an inclusive educa…
Disquiet Voices Foretelling Hope
South African teachers leave teaching due to factors such as lack of support and adverse working conditions. This study investigated rural teachers' resilience experiences of teaching in a resource-constrained school. A life history design was used to generate data. The research site was visited six times over 20 months. Fifteen interview-conversations were collected and transcribed. The results indicate that the teachers faced chronic poverty as…
Adolescents' Views on the Power of Violence in a Rural School in South Africa
This study aims to explain how adolescents in a rural high school conceptualise school violence. Qualitative data were collected over two two-day periods (24 hours) through child-centred tasks like drawing and the completion of open-ended sentences, informal conversations regarding the given activities, observations documented as visual data (photographs), a research journal, and focus group discussions. In total, four boys and five girls partici…
How inclusive education is understood by principals of independent schools
Inclusive education has become a practice that has been adopted by many schools across the globe and most usually in first-world countries. As a whole-school system, it occurs less frequently in developing countries including South Africa which unlike many developing countries has a sound infrastructure and many excellent schools in both the state and the independent sectors. Education White Paper 6: Special education: Building an inclusive educa…
Establishing a Reading Culture in a Rural Secondary School
The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the nature of a reading culture in a rural secondary school in South Africa before and after a literacy intervention. The systems theory with interpretivism as the epistemological paradigm was employed. A rural secondary school was selected as part of an on-going Flourishing Learning Youth and Supportive Teachers Assets and Resilience studies on resilience and rural schools. Language teachers …
How inclusive education is understood by principals of independent schools
Inclusive education has become a practice that has been adopted by many schools across the globe and most usually in first-world countries. As a whole-school system, it occurs less frequently in developing countries including South Africa which unlike many developing countries has a sound infrastructure and many excellent schools in both the state and the independent sectors. Education White Paper 6: Special education: Building an inclusive educa…
Adolescents' Views on the Power of Violence in a Rural School in South Africa
This study aims to explain how adolescents in a rural high school conceptualise school violence. Qualitative data were collected over two two-day periods (24 hours) through child-centred tasks like drawing and the completion of open-ended sentences, informal conversations regarding the given activities, observations documented as visual data (photographs), a research journal, and focus group discussions. In total, four boys and five girls partici…
Establishing a Reading Culture in a Rural Secondary School
The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the nature of a reading culture in a rural secondary school in South Africa before and after a literacy intervention. The systems theory with interpretivism as the epistemological paradigm was employed. A rural secondary school was selected as part of an on-going Flourishing Learning Youth and Supportive Teachers Assets and Resilience studies on resilience and rural schools. Language teachers …
Telling stories and adding scores
Telling stories and adding scores: Measuring resilience in young children affected by maternal HIV and AIDS", demonstrates how a concurrent mixed method design assisted cross-cultural comparison and ecological descriptions of resilience in young South African children, as well as validated alternative ways to measure resilience in young children. In a longitudinal randomised control trial, which investigated psychological resilience in mothers an…
Education for Democratic Citizenship through A Literacy‐based Approach
The study contextualises the position of child citizens in the S outh A frican democracy and highlights how education for democratic citizenship is employed through a literacy‐based approach. The qualitative study was exploratory and based on a lesson presented to nine‐year‐old township children by giving them language‐related tasks. Through the children's voices we present the life experiences that expressed their need for basic services, educat…
Disquiet Voices Foretelling Hope
South African teachers leave teaching due to factors such as lack of support and adverse working conditions. This study investigated rural teachers' resilience experiences of teaching in a resource-constrained school. A life history design was used to generate data. The research site was visited six times over 20 months. Fifteen interview-conversations were collected and transcribed. The results indicate that the teachers faced chronic poverty as…
Attempted and Completed Parricides in South Africa, 1990–2019
Previous studies of parricide have been carried out predominantly in a Western context, in North America, Australia, and Western Europe. To date, only a handful of studies in parricide have been conducted in continental Africa. Previous studies in Ghana and Zimbabwe note that there may be culture-specific ways in which parricides may be shaped by the norms and cultural beliefs systems within those respective countries. Missing from the literature…
Indicators for the Measurement of Teachers' Professional Identity across Asia and Africa
The comprehensiveness of teacher professional identity (TPI) studies conducted by African and Asian researchers highlights the importance of valid TPI indicators across Africa and Asia. Questionnaire TPI indicators are important to obtain valid direct comparisons between teachers in Africa and Asia. The process of developing a questionnaire served as an avenue for researchers from Asian and African regions to learn about TPI pointers from each ot…
The reality of transitioning from orphanages to family homes
Many young orphans in Zimbabwe grow up in residential care facilities, but according to governmental policies and literature in this field, these children should be transitioned to extended families to ensure optimal development. Thus, semi-structured interviews was conducted with a social worker, two residential care administrators and five extended families; whereas the participating orphans were asked to draw and narrate their lives in RCC and…
War Poetry of the Angolan/Namibian Border War
This article argues for a conceptualisation of war poetry as a corporeal re-membering that encapsulates trauma as literary theme through the ‘poetic bodies’ construct. The ‘poetic bodies’ concept implies that literary language, the physical and psychological body, and the environment interact to create ontological meaning through poetry. Therefore, the discussion takes place within a ‘poetic bodies’ epistemological framework, as it resonates with…
Academic Engagement, Learning Interest, and Psychological Well-being of Undergraduates
This study examines the impact of undergraduates’ gender and parental background on their psychological well-being, learning interest, and academic engagement. This study adopted the cross-sectional quantitative research type of the non-experimental design and was underpinned by the Self-determination Theory (ST). The study’s population consisted of 230 undergraduates enrolled in degree programmes at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti in Nigeria. T…
Promoting and Protecting the Developing Self-identity of the Young, Transracially Adopted Child in South Africa
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Psychological resilience (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works) · Social science (3 works)