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The alleged 'essentialism' of Dooyeweerd
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2017)Ed Echeverria argues that Jonathan Chaplin attempts to avoid social constructivism by grounding the normativity (structural-typical invariance) of societal entities in the invariant "possibilities or potentials given with ... -
The application of a resilience assessment approach to promote campus environmental management: a South African case study
(Emerald, 2016)Purpose - This paper aims to outline the benefits of using resilience assessment instead of command and control mechanisms to evaluate sustainable campus environments. Design/methodology/approach - An exploratory mixed-method ... -
The battle of the Lomba, 3 October 1987 : a tactical and operational analysis
(University of the Free State, 2017)The Battle of the Lomba, which was fought on 3 October 1987, was the final contest between the South African Defence Force (SADF) and Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola (FAPLA) during the first phase of ... -
The case for an emergentist approach
(2015)This paper sets out an argument in favour of emergentism as an alternative theoretical paradigm to nativism, arguing that it offers a coherent, evidence-based account of language structure, language acquisition, language ... -
The challenges of democratisation in Africa: evidence and the way forward for Nigeria
(Biga Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences: Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, 2017)Democracy is perhaps the most popular political norm in modern discourse. For most sovereign states in Africa however, democratisation and its challenges have for long remained daunting. Even though described as 'false ... -
The components of attentiveness in Oncology Care
(Nova Southeastern University, 2016)This article presents the first findings of a qualitative empirical study of caregivers' attentiveness in hospital oncology care. It takes a care ethical perspective, in which attentiveness is considered an indispensable ... -
The concealed crime of the nadītu priestess in §110 of the laws of Hammurabi
(Unisa Press/SASNES (South African Society for Near Eastern Studies) / Sabinet, 2015)LH 110 is part of the ancient Near Eastern scholarly debate regarding the function and role of the nadiātu-priestess groups in Old Babylonian society. Seemingly, LH 110 forbids the uncloistered nadītu from opening up or ... -
The conglomeration of flesh and cloth in a beautiful place': the politics of aesthetics in Michiel Heyns's Invisible Furies
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article investigates the ideas related to aesthetics that are discussed explicitly in Michiel Heyns's Invisible Furies (2012). These ideas are communicated in the novel by means of a variety of narrative situations, ... -
The corruption bogey in South Africa: Is public education safe?
(Education Assoc South Africa, 2015)Corruption is a constant global phenomenon, which is becoming more complex and intense as competition for resources increases. It is even more so amongst those living in developing countries, particularly emerging economies ... -
The cultural aspect in the contextualisation of pastoral caregiving ministry
(AOSIS, 2017)Due to the political changes during the last three decades in South Africa, many voices raised for the post-colonializing of sciences. This is also applicable to the pastoral caregiving ministry. Although the science of ... -
The demise of post-apartheid and the emergence of post-colonial South Africa
(University of the Free State, 2016)The notion of post-apartheid initially signalled a unique South African social and political trajectory that differed from the conventional African colonial and post-colonial experience. However, this article demonstrates ... -
The DSW: From Skeptic to Convert
(Springer, 2015)The author traces the history of the original DSW degree in relation to the Ph.D. which was viewed as the more respected, rigorous, and traditional degree, essentially replacing the DSW in social work doctoral programs. ... -
The education and training levels of the South African traditional healer: a present-day perspective
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)Background:The traditional healer in Southern Africa received new status as a statutorily recognized health professional with the promulgation of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007). Usually such recognition ... -
The Effect of Job Demands and a Lack of Job Resources on South African Educators' Mental and Physical Resources
(Kamla Raj Enterprises, 2015)In this paper, the authors report on the perceptions of educators in the Further Education and Training (FET) band in the Sedibeng West District (D8) of the Gauteng Province regarding the effect of job demands (workload) ... -
The effect of job insecurity on employee health complaints: a within-person analysis of the explanatory role of threats to the manifest and latent benefits of work
(American Psychological Association, 2016)The current study contributes to the literature on job insecurity by highlighting threat to the benefits of work as an explanation of the effect of job insecurity on health complaints. Building on the latent deprivation ... -
The effects of text editing and subtitle presentation rate on the comprehension and reading patterns of interlingual and intralingual subtitles among deaf, hard of hearing and hearing viewers
(Akadémiai Kiadó, 2016)In this paper we examine the influence of text editing (edited vs. verbatim subtitles) and subtitle presentation rates (12 vs. 15 characters per second) on the comprehension and reading patterns of interlingual and ... -
The effects of unemployment and perceived job insecurity: a comparison of their association with psychological and somatic complaints, self-rated health and life satisfaction
(Springer, 2016)Purpose: Research has provided convincing evidence for the adverse effects of both short- and long-term unemployment, and perceived job insecurity on individuals' health and well-being. This study aims to go one critical ... -
The embedded indexical value of /s/-fronting in Afrikaans and South African English
(De Gruyter, 2017)This paper examines the indexical value of /s/-fronting in White Afrikaans and in White South African English (WSAfE). Prior research on this feature has shown that fronted articulations of /s/ in WSAfE serve as a regional ... -
The Empowerment Approach To Parental Involvement In Education
(Kamla Raj Enterprises, 2015)The purpose of this study was to explore how parents perceive the essence of parental involvement in education. A qualitative phenomenological design using eight group interviews of ten parent participants was used for ... -
The everyday ways that school ecologies facilitate resilience: Implications for school psychologists
(Sage, 2016)From a socio-ecological perspective of resilience, social ecologies are crucial to children's functional outcomes in the face of adversity. Schools, in particular, are integral to the multiple social systems that children ...