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The central principle of Calvinism? Some criteria, proposals and questions
(AOSIS, 2015)Is there a ‘central principle’ of Calvinism? This article explores this question mainly from the viewpoint of reformational philosophy. It does so firstly by introducing criteria that should be used to identify, if ... -
Centre for Political and Related Terminology in Southern African Languages (CEPTSA) translating and explanatory dictionaries
(Buro Van Die Wat, 2015)The Centre for Political and Related Terminology in Southern African Languages (CEPTSA) published the revised and amended bilingual translating version of the Modern Political Dictionary (MPD) in 2011, and immediately ... -
Centre for Political and Related Terminology in Southern African Languages (CEPTSA): translating and explanatory dictionaries
(Buro Van Die Wat, 2015)The Centre for Political and Related Terminology in Southern African Languages (CEPTSA) published the revised and amended bilingual translating version of the Modern Political Dictionary (MPD) in 2011, and immediately ... -
Certification or qualification: an analysis of formal and non-formal higher education in South Africa
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Challenges and opportunities for public administration in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
(African Consortium of Public Administration (ACPA), 2017)The world is at the brink of the much anticipated digital transformation orchestrated by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Despite the perceived benefits of increased efficiency and effectiveness in service delivery, the ... -
Challenges experienced by district-based support teams in the execution of their functions in a specific South African province
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)This article reports on the findings of an embedded mixed-method South African study that investigated the challenges experienced by District-Based Support Team (DBST) members in the sub-directorate of Inclusive Education ... -
Challenges in donor-NPO relationships in the context of corporate social investment
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)The purpose of this article is to highlight challenges in the relationship between corporate donors and recipient NPOs within the context of corporate social investment (CSI) in South Africa and to link the relational ... -
Challenges in reporting on predetermined objectives to the Auditor-General: the case of Limpopo provincial departments
(AOSIS, 2017)Limpopo provincial departments like all other South African government departments are required to report on performance against predetermined objectives in terms of Section 40 of the Public Finance Management Act 1 of ... -
Challenges in teacher education in South Africa: do teacher educators and teachers effectively prepare student teachers to perform their roles as educators?
(Kamla Raj Enterprises, 2015)The Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications provides criteria for designing curricula for initial teacher education. This policy emphasizes that the roles that teachers have to fulfill should be interpreted ... -
Challenges of testing deep word knowledge of vocabulary: which path to follow?
(South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT), 2015)The present research explores the challenges of testing deep word knowledge of the vocabulary of students of English as a Foreign/ Second Language (EFL/ESL) at higher education. A productive test modelled on the Lex30 ... -
Changes in epistemic frameworks: random or constrained?
(Scriber Editorial Systems, 2012)Since the emergence of a solid anti-positivist approach in the philosophy of science, an important question has been to understand how and why epistemic frameworks change in time, are modified or even substituted. In ... -
Changing local politics in South Africa: the power relationship between local government and the people
(Institute for Contemporary History: Sabinet, 2013)The South African Freedom Charter (1955) states that “The people shall govern” and the African National Congress (ANC) (1991) stated in “Advance to national democracy” that “the immediate issue on the agenda is the ... -
A checklist for testing measurement invariance
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)The analysis of measurement invariance of latent constructs is important in research across groups, or across time. By establishing whether factor loadings, intercepts and residual variances are equivalent in a factor ... -
A checklist for testing measurement invariance
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)The analysis of measurement invariance of latent constructs is important in research across groups, or across time. By establishing whether factor loadings, intercepts and residual variances are equivalent in a factor model ... -
Child and adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems 12 months postburn: the potential role of preburn functioning, parental posttraumatic stress, and informant bias
(Springer, 2016)Adjustment after pediatric burn injury may be a challenge for children as well as their parents. This prospective study examined associations of internalizing and externalizing problems in children and adolescents 12 months ... -
Child and adult readers' processing of foreignised elements in translated South African picturebooks: an eye–tracking study
(John Benjamins publishing company, 2013)The tension between domesticating and foreignising translation strategies is particularly strongly felt in the translation of children’s literature, and has been a key issue in many studies of such literature. However, ... -
Child's gender preference: What is the regional situation among women in Nigeria?
(SABINET, 2014)Child Gender Preference (CGP) is a socio-cultural phenomenon in Africa. It has implication on family building process by increasing fertility through short birth intervals, thus putting maternal and child health at risk. ... -
Childbearing dynamics among married women of reproductive age in Nigeria: Re–affirming the role of education
(UAPS, 2014)Nigeria ranks among the high-fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Studies that examine relationship between fertility dynamics and education are important to improving maternal and child health. This study uses 2008 ... -
Children's positive adjustment to first grade in risk-filled communities: a case study of the role of school ecologies in South Africa and Finland
(Sage, 2016)This article presents a comparative case study on the ways in which children's school ecologies facilitate their adjusting positively to first grade in risk-filled contexts in South Africa and Finland. The insights of two ... -
Christ also ours in Africa: a consideration of Torrance's incarnational, Christological model as nexus for Christ's identification with African Christians
(AOSIS, 2017)The perceived foreignness of Christ in African Christianity is an ongoing challenge that is captured in various pieces of African theological literature. This problem partly arises from some early Western missionaries' ...