Browsing Research Output by Subject "Identity"
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African traditional religion: a new struggle for African identity
(Association For Theological Education In South East Asia, 2015)This article investigates the social status attributed to African Traditional Religion (ATR) in determining culture and identity. Since ATR is seen to be the sum total of the peculiarities shared by African people, African ... -
Attachment and psychological well-being among adolescents with and without disabilities in Kenya: the mediating role of identity formation
(Elsevier, 2013)The current study is aimed at evaluating the relationship between attachment and identity development, and their influence on psychological well-being in adolescents with and without disabilities in Kenya. The sample was ... -
Constructing identities in an online forum of a South African university
(Taylor & Francis / Unisa Press, 2015)The researchers construct the identity of participants by analysing online and offline identity performances in a virtual forum of a higher education institution in South Africa. The study identifies several interactional ... -
The development of agency in professional youth work with girls and young women in the Netherlands
(Sage, 2019)Young people living in north-west European welfare states are challenged to develop their individual strength. This is especially difficult for girls living in vulnerable circumstances, because they face a form of ... -
Hear their voices: self-configuration experiences of learners with mild learning difficulties within the learner-teacher relationship
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Within the learner–teacher relationship, learners receive messages of who they are in the eyes of the teacher and in this way their self-configuration is shaped by the interactions with their teacher. To understand their ... -
ICT to disempower? A perspective on ICT as postmodern agent
(2010)The wholesale implementation of Information Technology (IT) has brought with it a host of unintended and unforeseen consequences. Through a literature review and an examination of both postmodernism and IT, it is proposed ... -
The idea of Southern Africa in humanities and social science disciplines
(2014)The role of the academy in the manufacture of individual and group identities remains least understood from theoretical and empirical perspectives. The legitimation and consumption of such identity discourses (by both ... -
Identity as a key factor in the acculturation of young Moroccan-Dutch adults
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Many young Moroccan-Dutch in transition within the Dutch society face acculturation challenges and have limited social resources. We examined how different access to social capital (supportive networks among family, friends, ... -
The identity issue in bi- and multilingual repertoires in South Africa: Implications of Schneider's dynamic model
(John Benjamins, 2014)Identity construction drives the development of postcolonial Englishes in Schneider’s Dynamic Model. Contexts like those of South Africa where wide-spread bi- and multilingualism are observed challenge notions of English ... -
Staying married after stroke: a constructivist grounded theory qualitative study
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Background: Marriages are one of the most powerful predictors of health and longevity, yet research in stroke has focused separately on survivors’ experience of impairments and how spouses deal with caregiving. Objectives: ...