Browsing TD The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa by Issue Date
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New perspectives on learning
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Humanism and nature – some reflections on a complex relationship
(2006)The paper starts with a systematical analysis of the interrelationship of humanism and nature. It proceeds to a historical reconstruction of this relationship in the development of Western humanism from ancient Rome via ... -
We know what we are, but not what we may be
(2006)This essay attempts to trace a personal journey from a liberal humanist stance to an awareness of non-dualism within the altering landscape of contemporary advances in technology. My fundamental argument is that the ... -
A short comparative history of wells and toilets in South Africa and Finland
(2006)This paper describes the technological development of wells and toilets and the cultural practices related to them in two countries, South Africa and Finland, from the Middle Ages to modern times. Wells and toilets have ... -
Anachronism and the rewriting of history: the South Africa case
(2006)The use and abuse of anachronism is often seen as the quintessence of the writing of history. Historians tend to conceive it as the hardcore of their métier to avoid anachronism. It designates a confusion in order of time, ... -
‘Nature’ as a humanistic principle of universal communication? A European case study regarding natural law
(2006)The conference, “Humankind at the Intersection of Nature and Culture”, presented in the Kruger National Park in South Africa, forms part of the project “Humanism in the era of globalisation: An intercultural dialogue on ... -
Neurobiological approaches to a better understanding of human nature and human values
(2006)The most important finding made in the field of neurobiological research during the last decade is the discovery of the enormous experience-dependent plasticity of the human brain. The elaboration and stabilization of ... -
Dignity and work: global market and self-sustenance
(2007)It is argued here that market fundamentalistic theories ignore the issue of human agency in work, and the different types of work, because – focussing on the market mechanism, supply, demand, and price - they have lost ... -
The Gowe Irrigation co-operative society and its role in Sanyati (Zimbabwe), 1967-1969
(2007)The paper focuses on the origins and development of agricultural co-operative societies in Zimbabwe since 1954 with particular reference to Gowe-Sanyati and evaluates their role in facilitating the channelling of production ... -
HIV/AIDS awareness among first year pharmacy students and the role of the university
(2007)As HIV/AIDS continues to spread and affect the lives of millions of people, a sense of urgency has developed about the imperative need to stop the epidemic. Education is the key to change knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. ... -
‘When we are tired we shall rest’: bus boycotts in the United States of America and South Africa and prospects for comparative prospects history
(2007)This article looks at some of the practical, methodological, and disciplinary issues connected to comparative and transnational history through the lens of bus boycotts in South Africa and the United States in the 1950s. ... -
How to make sense of the past – salient issues of Metahistory
(2007)This aerticle provides an overview of current issues in metahistoty. Basic categories of historical thinking, such as memory and historical culture, or historical consciousness, are outlined and contextualised in the ... -
The Vaal River Barrage, South Africa’s hardest working water way: an historical contemplation
(2007)South Africa’s Vaal River is the country’s hardest working rivers. It has been instrumental in securing valuable water supplies in the development of the country’s economic hub – the Gauteng Province. Since the mid-twentieth ... -
Unskilled blue collar workers: Bourgeois and/or authoritarian? Results from a small scale survey in Belgium
(2007)In this article, two contrasting theories on the attitudes of unskilled blue collar workers are confronted: the ‘embourgeoisement’ thesis and the hypothesis of the ‘authoritarianism of the working class’. The ‘embourgeoisement’ ... -
The role of technology in the economic growth of South Africa: The case of frequency allocations to cellular operators
(2007)Economists associate long-term economic growth with technological progress. Earlier growth literature, as well as modern literature, states to sustain a positive growth rate of output per capita in the long run, there ... -
From hauntology to a new animism? Nature and culture in Heinz Kimmerle’s intercultural philosophy
(2007)Derrida has proposed a new spectrology in an attempt to deal with the ghost of Marx. Kimmerle shows that Marx has forgotten nature, and enquires about Derrida’s forgetting Marx’s forgetting. With specific reference to ... -
Continuous performance improvement in the South African National Defence Force
(2007)This article concentrates on the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), as a South African public sector department, its acceptance of the Batho Pele principles and the implementation of various organisational ...
