The Minds-On Hearts-On Hands-On Learning Engagements

An Applied Research and Development Based Initiative in an African University and Accentuates a Training Track for Educators/Enablers

Document from the year 2016 in the subject Pedagogy - The Teacher, Educational Leadership, Kampala International University (Institute for Social Research), language: English, abstract: Decisive components in the teaching-learning process are the educators and the learners. The Minds-on*Hearts-on*Hands-on Engagements in three types namely: the cognitive, affective, behavior and motor engagements are featured and emphasized to manage a supportive research and educational sphere. Research and academic courses can better be appreciated if they co-exist with learner-centered philosophies of creative pedagogy, andragogy and heutagogy accentuated through globally accepted and implemented innovative techniques such as game-based, gamification, hybrid, immersive and adaptive learning mechanisms. Teaching is not about being fully engaged in talking as the traditional authoritarianism projects but it is about being creative in selecting options that should work for the learners' benefits thus leading these learners to be innovative, self-directed and self-determined to acquire knowledge attitude and skills. -- This book features substantial learning engagements, learner-centered philosophies, learning mechanisms in actual application, inventories on social behavior, multiple intelligence, Keirseian temperaments, change management skills, teaching styles and learning patterns, applied research and development components.

Qualifications: BSN (Velez College), RN (Philippine Regulations Commission), MAN (Cebu Doctors' College), PhD (University of San Carlos) (Cebu City, Philippines) Rank: Prof. B since 2003, as ranked by Southwestern University, Philippines International Status: Adviser, Ontario College for Research and Development, Toronto, Canada (2015); Best Paper Award 2015 (Awarded by the Training Center for Social Science and Education, Toronto, Canada; Excellence Awards 2006, 2012, Academic and Administrative Endeavors (Kampala International University, Uganda) Other Awards: First Honor (Grades 1-5); Valedictorian (Grade 6); Silver Medalist and Scholar (High School 1-4); First in Arithmetic, Algebra, Religion (St. Catherine's School, Philippines); Best Research Adviser, Teacher with Pure Energy, Talented and Creative, Loyalty Award (Cebu Doctors' College of Nursing, Philippines); Past Position: Deputy Vice Chancellor, Kampala International University (KIU), Uganda in 2 terms/8 years,2005-2013) Present Position: Director, Institute for Social Research, KIU, Uganda She is a creative pedagogy and change advocate with thirty eight years work experience and 36 years in the academe, research and community service. She has a total of eight books, one is an anthology containing seven empirical studies and the rest of the books are in the areas of research, parenting, motivation, conflict management, marginalized business and HIV/AIDS reflecting her name. Her expertise: teaching, research, medical-surgical nursing, curriculum development, organization development and transformation, leadership and management, innovative teaching- learning (creative pedagogy), knowledge generation and management, initiating change, customer care, developing initiatives, starting and implementing systems, capacity building, editing journal articles, books, masters' thesis and doctoral dissertations, public speaking (as resource speaker, keynote speaker).