Inaugural Lectures - Potchefstroom Campus
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Pedagogy of play – Improving student performance / S.M. (Grieta) Hanekom
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)The pedagogical frameworks designed for integrating games and play into the classroom introduces the concept of educational design that includes learning objectives, the selection of subject-related content, planning and ... -
Oxidative Stress & Hypertension: A Balancing Act / Carina Mels
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)What is balance? As a noun balance is “an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady” or “a situation in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions.” That ... -
Membrane Science and Technology for Hydrogen Applications / D. Bessarabov
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)The lecture covers basic principles of membrane technology and how this technology is linked to "green" hydrogen production and purification. The lecture also provides an overview of various membrane-related projects where ... -
Turning waste into products : a circular economy concept / Sanette Marx
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Predictive modelling : a peek into the future / Tanja Verster
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Professing presence / Emmerentia du Plessis
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)I agree with the view of Noll (1997) and Clasquin-Johnson (2014) on what it means to be a professor, namely that being a professor is a call to action. The professor focuses on understanding, gaining insight, reflecting ... -
Power Electronics - View of the Past and Illumination of the Future / Gouws, Rupert
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)The developments in the power electronics industry has over the years hinged on the progress of the semiconductor device industry. The semiconductor device industry could be said to be on the edge of a turn into a new era, ... -
The immediate living environment : impressions of house, home, and social functioning / E.H. Ryke
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)The overarching purpose of this address is to revisit the immediate living environment from a person-in-environment social work perspective and approach. My thesis is that without a solid and nuanced conceptual framework ... -
Evidence and compassion in Maternity care / C.S.Minnie
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)Maternity care is the care of the mother-baby dyad during pregnancy, childbirth and the first few months thereafter. Various members of the multidisciplinary team can offer maternity care, and the focus of my research is ... -
Models in risk management : wrong but useful / Helgard Raubenheimer
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)Financial institutions include a wide range of business operations within the financial sector, including banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms, and investment companies. Society relies on the smooth functioning of ... -
The Battleground of the SME accountant / DF (Danie) Schutte
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Deciphering the black box : shedding light on consumer behaviour within tourism events contexts / Karin Botha
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Die lewende verlede van die letterkunde / Phil van Schalkwyk
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)My aim is to carry out an exploration of our relationship with the past, specifically in a literary-artistic context. In the background of this lies an anti-patriarchal discourse in which I myself participated in my research, ... -
Nostalgia, dialogue and silence : on the ethics of curriculum studies / Petro du Preez
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2019)Ecological crises, advances in biogenetic research, imbalances within the economic systems, and an exponential growth of social divisions and exclusions have led to a global capitalist system that is approaching an apocalyptic ... -
The sustainability of arts festivals in South Africa : the show must go on / Pierre-André Viviers
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)South African theatre, and more specifically Afrikaans theatre at art festivals, was on a rocky and struggling road long before the global pandemic struck. This inaugural lecture zooms in on the research that Prof Pierre-André ... -
The future of accounting : will we be replaced by robots? / Nico van der Merwe
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)The world is experiencing a period of exponential technological change, characterised by unprecedented disruption to business. Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), ... -
The world through the eyes of a preterm baby / Welma Lubbe
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)Coming into the world too early may result in a lot of stress for the preterm baby. However, if we understand this world better we can support these early arrivals to develop optimally and ensure that they have the best ... -
Monsters of the universe : the build-up of the most massive galaxies / Ilani Loubser
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Fungi, Frogs and Fomite / Ché Weldon
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Organic chemical pollutants and bio-assays : matrimony between chemistry and biology / Rialet Pieters
(North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom Campus, 2021)Knowing the concentration of a pollutant in the environment, i.e. sediment, soil, water, and air, and comparing it to a guideline level to know whether it occurs at an ‘acceptable’ level, is not adequate anymore. Biota in ...
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