John Cowan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3582367 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Cowan |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Cowan |
| ASSINATURA | COWAN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8680-8531 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Illustrating improvement
This article explores how academic staff perceive the relationship between their engagement in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and student outcomes. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted at a Scottish university, we used storyboarding to capture the experiences of 29 staff members across multiple disciplines. Participants reflected on how both formal (e.g. PgCert programmes) and informal (e.g. peer discussions, reflective practice) C…
Tuberculosis treatment and undernutrition on Daru Island, Papua New Guinea
A substantial proportion of people with tuberculosis (TB)-one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases-live in resource-poor, food insecure settings. It is widely recognised that undernutrition significantly heightens vulnerability to TB, as well as contributes to poor treatment adherence and outcomes. However, more attention is needed to understand what shapes food insecurity and undernutrition in a particular setting. We use the concept of …
The role and value of counsellors in the treatment journeys of people with tuberculosis and their families
Combined education and counselling can contribute to person-centred care for tuberculosis (TB), improving uptake, adherence, and outcomes of treatment for TB disease and TB infection. Though strongly recommended by the World Health Organization for all people diagnosed with TB, education and counselling is not widely implemented in TB programs around the world. In 2016, a pilot TB education and counselling program, delivered by trained profession…
Beyond patient delay, navigating structural health system barriers to timely care and treatment in a high burden TB setting in Papua New Guinea
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health issue in Papua New Guinea, with incidence rates particularly high in the South Fly District of Western Province. We present three case studies, along with additional vignettes, that were derived from interviews and focus groups carried out between July 2019 and July 2020 of people living in rural areas of the remote South Fly District depicting their challenges accessing timely TB diagnosis and care; mos…
Exploring Tuberculosis Riskscapes in a Papua New Guinean 'Hotspot
This article explores socio-spatial dimensions of risk and how they can enhance understanding of a high burden tuberculosis (TB) context in the South Fly District of Papua New Guinea. We report on select findings from a qualitative study that included 128 semi-structured in-depth interviews and 10 focus group discussions with a wide range of South Fly District community members. Using the conceptual framework of 'riskscapes' to examine emic persp…
An Exploration Into the Importance of a Sense of Belonging for Online Learners
Fostering a sense of belonging and a personal connection is seen as fundamental by many educational researchers, regardless of the learning environment. Online learning certainly provides flexible learning opportunities but comes with notable issues. For online learners, nurturing a sense of belonging may present a way of improving their experiences and attainment, as well as reducing attrition rates. Research specifically exploring sense of belo…
Strategies for Developing a Community of Practice
Cultural influences on student learning
A Case for Self‐assessment Based on Recent Studies of Student Learning
An account of an experiment in self‐assessed learning where the lecturer used his authority to give his students responsibility for their own assessment. Students were expected to set their own goals, week‐by‐week, and prepare a self‐assessment, which was open to questioning and discussion by other members of the group, but which involved only the individual student in the final decision. The difficulties encountered are clearly stated, but the f…
Reworked coursework
Final year undergraduate students were each required to prepare an appraisal of part of a research paper covering a specialist topic in an engineering discipline. These appraisals were presented in seminars, where the aim was to encourage constructive discussion and co-operation directed towards the subsequent reworking of the appraisals by the authors concerned. The coursework mark was based on the reworked version of the paper; the marker did n…
English Teaching in China
For three weeks in 1979, a team of four specialists sponsored by the U.S. International Communication Agency visited China for the purpose of surveying diverse aspects of English teaching there. The authors visited 21 educational institutions in 5 cities. This article describes aspects of language teaching policy in China, English curricula, teaching materials, and teaching methodology used at various levels of English instruction. It also touche…
Freedom in the selection of course content
The paper is a case-study of an innovation, as seen through the eyes of the innovator. It describes a study of the desirability and feasibility of offering undergraduates freedom to select the course content in one subject of early study. Small groups of first-year students were offered such an opportunity, in one subject only, during a full academic year. On the basis of the lessons learnt from the first trial-run, a revised plan for the followi…
Reading, Perceptual Strategies and Contrastive Analysis1
Psycholinguistic research in sentence perception supports a model of the reading process in which the reader matches expectancies set up by sampling previous syntactic clues in a text with the structural signals which follow. Such expectancies are language specific, and when they are applied to reading a second language various confusions and comprehension breakdowns result. Examples from three learning situations, Japanese reading English, Persi…
Reading Performance of Bilingual Children According to Type of School and Home Language1
This study examined bilingual children's performance in reading Persian and English at grades one, three and six. Two types of programs, one an immersion curriculum, and the other a split curriculum, where half the daily instruction was in one language and the remaining half was in the other, were compared with monolingual control schools. The results showed the bilingual children performing not quite as well as either of their monolingual peer g…
Reading, Perceptual Strategies and Contrastive Analysis1
Psycholinguistic research in sentence perception supports a model of the reading process in which the reader matches expectancies set up by sampling previous syntactic clues in a text with the structural signals which follow. Such expectancies are language specific, and when they are applied to reading a second language various confusions and comprehension breakdowns result. Examples from three learning situations, Japanese reading English, Persi…
Reading Performance of Bilingual Children According to Type of School and Home Language1
This study examined bilingual children's performance in reading Persian and English at grades one, three and six. Two types of programs, one an immersion curriculum, and the other a split curriculum, where half the daily instruction was in one language and the remaining half was in the other, were compared with monolingual control schools. The results showed the bilingual children performing not quite as well as either of their monolingual peer g…
Exploring Tuberculosis Riskscapes in a Papua New Guinean 'Hotspot
This article explores socio-spatial dimensions of risk and how they can enhance understanding of a high burden tuberculosis (TB) context in the South Fly District of Papua New Guinea. We report on select findings from a qualitative study that included 128 semi-structured in-depth interviews and 10 focus group discussions with a wide range of South Fly District community members. Using the conceptual framework of 'riskscapes' to examine emic persp…
Strategies for Developing a Community of Practice
English Teaching in China
For three weeks in 1979, a team of four specialists sponsored by the U.S. International Communication Agency visited China for the purpose of surveying diverse aspects of English teaching there. The authors visited 21 educational institutions in 5 cities. This article describes aspects of language teaching policy in China, English curricula, teaching materials, and teaching methodology used at various levels of English instruction. It also touche…
Reading, Perceptual Strategies and Contrastive Analysis1
Psycholinguistic research in sentence perception supports a model of the reading process in which the reader matches expectancies set up by sampling previous syntactic clues in a text with the structural signals which follow. Such expectancies are language specific, and when they are applied to reading a second language various confusions and comprehension breakdowns result. Examples from three learning situations, Japanese reading English, Persi…
Reading Performance of Bilingual Children According to Type of School and Home Language1
This study examined bilingual children's performance in reading Persian and English at grades one, three and six. Two types of programs, one an immersion curriculum, and the other a split curriculum, where half the daily instruction was in one language and the remaining half was in the other, were compared with monolingual control schools. The results showed the bilingual children performing not quite as well as either of their monolingual peer g…
Freedom in the selection of course content
The paper is a case-study of an innovation, as seen through the eyes of the innovator. It describes a study of the desirability and feasibility of offering undergraduates freedom to select the course content in one subject of early study. Small groups of first-year students were offered such an opportunity, in one subject only, during a full academic year. On the basis of the lessons learnt from the first trial-run, a revised plan for the followi…
English Teaching in China
For three weeks in 1979, a team of four specialists sponsored by the U.S. International Communication Agency visited China for the purpose of surveying diverse aspects of English teaching there. The authors visited 21 educational institutions in 5 cities. This article describes aspects of language teaching policy in China, English curricula, teaching materials, and teaching methodology used at various levels of English instruction. It also touche…
Reworked coursework
Final year undergraduate students were each required to prepare an appraisal of part of a research paper covering a specialist topic in an engineering discipline. These appraisals were presented in seminars, where the aim was to encourage constructive discussion and co-operation directed towards the subsequent reworking of the appraisals by the authors concerned. The coursework mark was based on the reworked version of the paper; the marker did n…
A Case for Self‐assessment Based on Recent Studies of Student Learning
An account of an experiment in self‐assessed learning where the lecturer used his authority to give his students responsibility for their own assessment. Students were expected to set their own goals, week‐by‐week, and prepare a self‐assessment, which was open to questioning and discussion by other members of the group, but which involved only the individual student in the final decision. The difficulties encountered are clearly stated, but the f…
Cultural influences on student learning
Strategies for Developing a Community of Practice
An Exploration Into the Importance of a Sense of Belonging for Online Learners
Fostering a sense of belonging and a personal connection is seen as fundamental by many educational researchers, regardless of the learning environment. Online learning certainly provides flexible learning opportunities but comes with notable issues. For online learners, nurturing a sense of belonging may present a way of improving their experiences and attainment, as well as reducing attrition rates. Research specifically exploring sense of belo…
Exploring Tuberculosis Riskscapes in a Papua New Guinean 'Hotspot
This article explores socio-spatial dimensions of risk and how they can enhance understanding of a high burden tuberculosis (TB) context in the South Fly District of Papua New Guinea. We report on select findings from a qualitative study that included 128 semi-structured in-depth interviews and 10 focus group discussions with a wide range of South Fly District community members. Using the conceptual framework of 'riskscapes' to examine emic persp…
Beyond patient delay, navigating structural health system barriers to timely care and treatment in a high burden TB setting in Papua New Guinea
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health issue in Papua New Guinea, with incidence rates particularly high in the South Fly District of Western Province. We present three case studies, along with additional vignettes, that were derived from interviews and focus groups carried out between July 2019 and July 2020 of people living in rural areas of the remote South Fly District depicting their challenges accessing timely TB diagnosis and care; mos…
The role and value of counsellors in the treatment journeys of people with tuberculosis and their families
Combined education and counselling can contribute to person-centred care for tuberculosis (TB), improving uptake, adherence, and outcomes of treatment for TB disease and TB infection. Though strongly recommended by the World Health Organization for all people diagnosed with TB, education and counselling is not widely implemented in TB programs around the world. In 2016, a pilot TB education and counselling program, delivered by trained profession…
Illustrating improvement
This article explores how academic staff perceive the relationship between their engagement in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and student outcomes. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted at a Scottish university, we used storyboarding to capture the experiences of 29 staff members across multiple disciplines. Participants reflected on how both formal (e.g. PgCert programmes) and informal (e.g. peer discussions, reflective practice) C…
Tuberculosis treatment and undernutrition on Daru Island, Papua New Guinea
A substantial proportion of people with tuberculosis (TB)-one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases-live in resource-poor, food insecure settings. It is widely recognised that undernutrition significantly heightens vulnerability to TB, as well as contributes to poor treatment adherence and outcomes. However, more attention is needed to understand what shapes food insecurity and undernutrition in a particular setting. We use the concept of …
Psychology (10 obras) · Mathematics education (8 obras) · Pedagogy (8 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Evaluation of Teaching Practices (4 obras) · Higher education (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Tuberculosis (4 obras)