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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' ... -
Christian scholarship within reformed circles
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Christianisering van die Hellenisme impliseer die hellenisering van die christelike geloof: die verlammende effek van tweeduisend jaar se sintesedenke en skolastiek
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2013)One may approach the encounter between Christian belief and the Greek-Hellenistic culture in two different ways: Either from the perspective of Christianisation of Hellenism or the hellenization of Christianity. This essay ... -
The church organist's rappers: Redefining roles and strategies in music education
(2014)Arts and culture teachers often are ill-equipped to meet the requirements of school music programmes. They labour especially to accommodate the diverse musical preferences of learners. This discussion accordingly describes ... -
Citizen participation in developmental local government: statutory obligations
(ASSADPAM, 2004)Democratic and developmental local government in South Africa depends on good relations between them and the citizens they serve. There are several statutory and regulatory initiatives to establish a framework for promoting ... -
Climate change and sustainable tourism: South Africa caught in-between
(AJHTL, 2017)Climate change and tourism are symbolically two-sides of a coin. While climate change portends serious threats to ecosystems and biodiversity (the world's foremost tourism assets), environmental impacts associated with ... -
Climate change, complex interdependence and development: assessment of Lesotho-South Africa relations
(Business Perspectives, 2015)Climate change and its negative effects on the developing states are a reality of which there is a need to focus on likely mitigation and adaptive strategies to ensure sustainable development. Industrial development back ... -
Cognition and context in translation analysis: Contextual frames of reference in Bible translation
(Scriptura, 2014)This article describes the concept of contextual frames of reference (CFR) and explains its importance to the analysis of Bible translations. The article starts by explaining the idea of cognition, which is fundamental to ... -
The cognitive/affective distinction of job insecurity: validation and differential relations
(Unisa, 2013)Job insecurity as a work-related stressor is well established through three decades of research. It has been related to outcomes such as decreased job satisfaction, organisational commitment and performance as well as ...