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Africana Collection [371]
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A collaborative approach to enhance the teaching of English phonemic awareness in the Foundation Phase
(North-West University (South Africa), 2023-07)Learners’ reading skills in the Foundation Phase are often poor and South African teachers lack the training, knowledge, and skills to assist learners in this regard. One way to address poor reading skills is to enhance ... -
Are we there yet? Probing the notion of contextualizing Practical Theology and pastoral care in a post-COVID glocal African context / Brunsdon Alfred Richard
(North-West University (South Africa). Mahikeng Campus, 2022)The lecture probes the state of contextualising Practical Theology and pastoral care in an African context against the background of persisting Western epistemologies and the decolonisation discourse. A brief historical ... -
Lower limb development and gait kinematics of back-carried Setswana children
(North-West University (South-Africa), 2020)Back-carrying (BC) of children is a common phenomenon among African mothers. Children are often back-carried (BC) by their mothers for long durations, well into their toddler years. Positive relationships between BC and ... -
Validation of selected body fatness methods against the deuterium technique in 6-8 year old black South Africans : the BC-IT Study
(North-West University (South-Africa), 2021)Various scholars report overweight and obesity as major public health problems. Though an increase in obesity, especially among children, has been observed over decades, accurate body composition measurements remain a ... -
The difference and relationship between Developmental Coordination Disorder and health related fitness in 10- to 11-year-old South African children : the NW-CHILD study
(North-West University (South-Africa), 2021)Various researchers reported that children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) are more likely to be overweight and obese than their typically developing peers. Furthermore, several studies have found that ...
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