Faculty of Humanities

Contesting Ideas of a University: The Case of South Africa

Wolhuter, Charl; Mushaandja, John (MDPI, 2015)

This article portrays four historically evolved ideas of a university, as they have developed in the South African context, namely the British liberal-humanistic education idea, the Afrikaner idea of an ethnically-oriented ...

Undergraduate students’ perceptions of factors affecting job satisfaction

Van der Schyff, Rhyno; Botha, Doret; Ellis, Suria (AOSIS, 2018)

Orientation: Globally, people engage in work and sell their services to an organisation in exchange for compensation. This compensation can have a significant effect on employees’ attitude towards their work, resulting in ...

The epistemological implications of critical complexity thinking for operational research

Kruger, Hennie; Verhoef, Anné; Preiser, Rika (MDPI, 2019)

Classical operational research (OR) is mainly concerned with the use of mathematical techniques and models used in decision-making situations. The basic assumptions of OR presuppose that the structure of the world is one ...

How do mentally tough athletes overcome self-directed anger, shame, and criticism? A self-forgiveness mediation analysis

Cowden, Richard G.; Joynt, Shaun; Crust, Lee; Hook, Joshua N.; Worthington, Everett L. (Edizioni Luigi Pozzi, 2018)

We examined associations between mental toughness, self-directed, negatively toned emotions and cognitions, and self-forgiveness. With reference to their participation in competitive tennis, a sample of 343 competitive ...

Mitigating the socio-economic consequences of mine closure

Ackerman, M.; Van der Waldt, G.; Botha, D. (SAIMM, 2018)

An analysis of trends in the mining industry in South Africa reveals a general lack of understanding among mining companies of the significant socio-economic consequences that mine closure may have on affected communities. ...

Exploring lived experiences of spirituality amongst five Dalcroze teachers

Van der Merwe, Liesl; Habron, John (Sage, 2018)

This article presents an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of the lived spiritual experiences of five Dalcroze teachers while teaching Dalcroze Eurhythmics. It responds to a recent expansion of research into ...

Music-inspired free play to foster scientific exploration in early childhood

Van Vreden, Mignon (AOSIS, 2018)

Background: The importance of music and play in early childhood development is widely acknowledged. However, no recent studies have investigated the potential of music-inspired free play to foster scientific exploration. Aim: ...

Disaster risk problem framing: insights from societal perceptions in Zimbabwe

Chipangura, Paul; Van Niekerk, Dewald; Van der Waldt, Gerrit (Elsevier, 2017)

As disasters are on the rise with devastating consequences, understanding the dynamics of disaster risk problem framing is crucial because the way in which a problem is framed circumscribes the search for solutions to that ...

Exploring corporate reputation variables to measure personal reputations

Van der Waldt, D.L.R. (University of Johannesburg, 2017)

his explorative article qualitatively describes reputation variables that are applicable to both corporate and personal reputations: identity, image, branding, personality, behaviour, culture, ethics and storytelling. The ...

Theories for research in Public Administration

Van der Waldt, G. (African Consortium of Public Administration (ACPA), 2017)

Theory underpins social science endeavours by providing the philosophical assumptions on the following aspects: aspects that constitute social reality (ontology); is accepted as valid evidence of that reality (epistemology); ...

The Management of Health Risks in the Kwazulu-Natal Department of Education

Sithole, G.B.; Van der Waldt, G. (ASSADPAM, 2017)

Employees are generally regarded as the most valuable asset of any organisation. It is thus critical that employees' general well-being be promoted to ensure that health risks such as sickness, employee incapacity, and ...

Incorporating religion when teaching cultural diversity issues in public administration

Van der Waldt, G. (ASSADPAM, 2017)

The world of governance is changing rapidly and the pluralisation of worldviews is fast becoming a prevalent feature of the public sector. Societal worldviews are closely intertwined with governance. Therefore, prospective ...

Die aard en plek van die geheel-dele relasie - gesien vanuit 'n algemeen-wysgerige sowel as 'n vakfilosofiese perspektief = The nature and place of the whole-parts relation both from a general philosophical perspective and from that of the philosophy of the special sciences

Strauss, Danie (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)

his article focuses on the broader philosophical and special scientific context within which an account is given of the nature and place of the whole-parts relation within scholarly disciplines (the natural sciences and ...

Periphrastic progressive constructions in Dutch and Afrikaans: a contrastive analysis

Breed, Adri; Brisard, Frank; Verhoeven, Ben (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Given the common ancestry of Dutch and Afrikaans, it is not surprising that they use similar periphrastic constructions to express progressive meaning: aan het (Dutch) and aan die/'t (Afrikaans) lit. 'at the'; bezig met/(om) ...

Weerlose weemoed: die poësie van Luuk Gruwez (1953-)

Van Coller, Hennie (Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging (ALV), 2016)

Luuk Gruwez is one of the best-known and anthologized poets in the Dutch language. A few years ago he was relatively unknown in the Afrikaans literary world, but this situation changed dramatically with his attendance of ...

Besinning oor staat en samelewing

Strauss, Danie (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)

In classical antiquity and during the medieval era political life was organized in kingdoms or empires in which the ruler (monarch or emperor) was not yet appreciated as occupying a public-legal office. But throughout the ...

Wysgerige onderskeidinge relevant vir 'n besinning oor staat en samelewing met besondere verwysing na Koos Malan se politokrasie

Strauss, Danie (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)

Recently reflections on state and society were enriched by the contributions of various authors in Afrikaans. Of particular interest in this regard is a work written by Koos Malan (professor in Constitutional Law). It ...