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From genogram to genograph: using narrative means to contextualize social reality in the counselling session
(2006)This article addresses a process that occurs when applying narrative therapy during a counselling session, namely moving away from the genogram towards the more effective genograph. Narrative therapy implies that we often ... -
HIV/AIDS Perceptions, attitudes and awareness of undergraduate students
(2006)The central question to be examined revolves around the perceptions, attitudes and awareness regarding HIV/AIDS among undergraduate students at the North-West University (Vaal Triangle Campus). Therefore, the objective of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Hidden benefits of public private partnerships: the case of water pressure management in Sebokeng
(2007)Many water distribution systems in South Africa are deteriorating due to many years of neglect resulting in a serious maintenance backlog. Recent government legislation has introduced free basic water to all South Africans ... -
‘Music is Life’ – The influence of transcendentalist philosophy on Ives’s Concord Sonata
(2007)Although the Concord Sonata is traditionally regarded as a sonata, it is atypical of the genre and is often considered as enigmatic. To understand this composition, a transdisciplinary approach is essential by, more ... -
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 ...
