Browsing TD The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa by Issue Date
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Towards transdisciplinary education
(2005)The methodology of transdisciplinarity is founded on three postulates: there are, in Nature and in our knowledge of Nature, different levels of Reality and, correspondingly, different levels of perception; the passage ... -
Tourists’ willingness to pay to view otters along the Wild Coast, South Africa: a potential for in creased ecotourism
(2005)This article reports on tourists’ willingness to pay to view Cape clawless otters Aonyx capensis along the Eastern Cape Wild Coast, South Africa. We collected data from a survey carried out using a structured, ... -
A logical and structural thinking development tool (LST) to enhance fundamental problem-solving skills of learners of information technology
(2005)The role of information technology in modern education has increased significantly over the past two decades [14]. The opportunity to develop an interactive software system with the aim of enhancing fundamental problem-solving ... -
Project management in Ghana: expectations, realities and barriers to use
(2005)This article reports the findings of an empirical study of the problems of developing Project Management (PM) practice in Ghanaian organisations. Based on previous research and survey data, the characteristics of the ... -
Die Stockholm konvensie: wisselwerking
(2005)The Stockholm Convention: Interaction between science and policy. The history of mankind shows an increasing trend towards organisation, partly due to the ever-increasing numbers of people on earth, and the reduced ... -
Exposé or misconstrual? Unresolved issues of authorship and the authenticity of GW Stow’s ‘forgery’ of a rock art painting
(2005)George William Stow (1822-1882) is today considered to have been one of the founding fathers of rock art research and conservation in Southern Africa. He arrived from England in 1843 and settled on the frontier of the ... -
Anachronism and the rewriting of history: the South Africa case
(2006)The use and abuse of anachronism is often seen as the quintessence of the writing of history. Historians tend to conceive it as the hardcore of their métier to avoid anachronism. It designates a confusion in order of time, ... -
‘Nature’ as a humanistic principle of universal communication? A European case study regarding natural law
(2006)The conference, “Humankind at the Intersection of Nature and Culture”, presented in the Kruger National Park in South Africa, forms part of the project “Humanism in the era of globalisation: An intercultural dialogue on ... -
Indonesia and Africa: questioning the origins of some of Africa’s most famous icons
(Thurlton Publishing, 2006)In the author’s opinion there have been three far-reaching gaps in the study of Africa’s history: 1) Indonesian involvement in East and Central Africa; 2) Links between Madagascar and Eastern and South/Central Africa; and ... -
Archetyping race, gender and class: advertising in The Bantu World and The World from the 1930s to the 1990s
(2006)This article sets out to interrogate the ideological hegemony of the superstructuring narrative voice in advertisements by studying linguistic, structural devices and encoding that are employed, in order to expose its ... -
Mapping cultural and natural landscape: metaphors in mapping human nature
(2006)The article uses the cartographic metaphor to describe the relations between culture and nature, science and life world, signifier and signified. Modernism may be defined as a project to map the whole of human reality ... -
Aspects of irrigation development in the Netherlands East Indies
(2006)The ‘Romijn’ discharge measurement structure was developed in the Netherlands East Indies. By the end of the colonial period in the 1930s, it had become the standard structure in irrigation. The Romijn design is not only ... -
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 ... -
Dialogue among pre- and post-genetic revolution civilisations
(2006)The genetic revolution will have a profound impact on human society and therefore on the public policy environment. This article aims to describe the public policy paradigms and paradigm shifts that will determine the ... -
Neurobiological approaches to a better understanding of human nature and human values
(2006)The most important finding made in the field of neurobiological research during the last decade is the discovery of the enormous experience-dependent plasticity of the human brain. The elaboration and stabilization of ... -
Die benutting van direkte bemarking op ’n geïntegreerde promosiestrategie
(2006)Hedendaagse ondernemings bevind hulself in ’n hoogs kompeterende en dinamiese omgewing. Die onderneming wat egter bo die res gaan uitstyg, is die wat vir hul kliënte omgee en die waarde en voordele van hul produkte en ...