• A theoretical exposition of the concept “spontaneous healing in children”: a SHIPiCTM perspective 

  Strydom, Irene (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: SHIP® (spontaneous healing intra-systemic process) (JOS 2002) as a psycho-therapeutic model has developed over many years during which the fascinating occurrence of spontaneous healing in clients was observed. ...

• Forgery, fiction and pseudonym in the collection of medical letters prefacing Marcellus’s De medicamentis 

  Cilliers, Louise (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: In this article the corpus of eight letters serving as a preface to the pharmaceutical recipe collection which constitutes Marcellus’s De medicamentis is examined from a literary point of view. The classification ...

• An ambiguous partnership of word and tone: media “confrontation” in Mozart’s Don Giovanni 

  Viljoen, Martina (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni is generally recognised as the greatest work dealing with the theme of Don Juan. It is also extremely complex and raises in an unusually challenging way the significance of the figure ...

• The provision of continuing professional development in the natural sciences at the Universityof Stellenbosch 

  Frick, Liezel; Kapp, Chris (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: Continuing professional development (CPD) gains relevance and prominence in a global society characterised by constant change and a consumer-driven market economy. Competence, accountability, professionalism and ...

• Dollarisation as an alternative exchange rate regime for emerging countries 

  Wessels, Buks (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English:Over the past three decades exchange rate volatility has motivated a renewed search for stable and predictable exchange rate regimes. As a fixed exchange rate regime, dollarisation has increasingly been suggested ...

• New security thinking: defence and societal transformation in South Africa 

  Ferreira, Rialize (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: New security thinking, with its specific focus on human security, is different from earlier perspectives, which focused primarily on state security. In South Africa, state security is no longer threatened by ...

• Community-based education: a case study of the MED 113 expo at the University of the Free State 

  Prinsloo, Adri; Joubert, Gina; Du Toit, Gawie (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: Complaints that health professionals do not address the needs of society have necessitated new methods of teaching and learning. The community-based education (CBE) approach could address these concerns. The aim ...

• In defence of history as a school subject 

  Schoeman, Sonja (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: In view of the fact that the majority of learners terminate their study of history at the end of the General Education and Training phase (Grade 9), active steps should be taken by history practitioners and ...

• The work experience of white male academics 

  Schulze, Salomé (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: This article reports on the work experiences of a group of white male academics from the human sciences and on the usefulness of some theories of job satisfaction. Quantitative data were collected from 25 ...

• Teaching mentally disabled learners 

  Olivier, Tilla; Williams, Evelyn (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: This investigation focused on the “special” (different from mainstream education) nature of special education and teachers’ experiences of the challenges of teaching the mentally disabled learner. The aim was ...

• The daily experience of farm dwellers on a commercial farm inthe North-West Province 

  Ryke, Elma (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: Farm dwellers’ daily experiences on a commercial farm in the North-West Province are qualitatively explored and described with the aim of arriving at an understanding of their specific experience. It is concluded ...

• The incorporation of African traditional health practitioners into the South African health care system 

  Summerton, Joy (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: The need to progress from parallel or merely tolerant health care systems towards integrated systems in countries with both traditional and western health care systems has been acknowledged globally. Underlying ...

• Drop-out in township secondary schools: educators’ perspectives 

  Masitsa, Gilbert (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: The drop-out rate at township secondary schools is increasing with no sign of abating. Elevated drop-out levels cause a high rate of functional illiteracy, limited occupational and economic prospects, and an ...

• Christian faith and economic life: some Kuyperian themes 

  Beukes, Elwil (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: This article argues that the legacy of the nineteenth-century Dutch statesman and theologian Abraham Kuyper merits renewed attention for the light it sheds on some topical economic issues of our time. Kuyper’s ...

• Cognitive dimensions of politics: relativism and rationalism 

  Faure, Murray (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: This article investigates whether there are necessarily links between relativist and rationalist thinking and the nature of the politics that ensues from these epistemologies. Claims that posit such linkages ...

• Oral people can be literate: some reflections on aurally based literacy 

  Alant, Jaco (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: The concept of literacy, in its “autonomous” view as a language derived skill offering certain cognitive advances, can be situated within the context of primary orality. Aurally based literacy becomes possible ...

• Die loopbaandilemmas van akademiese personeel verbonde aan ’n veranderende Suid-Afrikaanse hoëronderwysinstelling 

  Pienaar, Cobus; Bester, Coen (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: The purpose of this study was to identify the typical career dilemmas of academic staff in various career stages within a changing South African higher education institution. Data were obtained by means of the ...

• The relevance of the Bewußtseins-Industrie to the essayistic oeuvre of Hans Magnus Enzensberger 

  Van den Berg, Cilliers (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: With an interest in issues relating to the role of literature in the socio-political context, Hans Magnus Enzensberger uses the Bewußtseins-Industrie in many of his texts as an analytical construct to describe ...

• Motivating primary-school learners in mathematics classrooms 

  Maimane, Joseph (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: This article explores ways in which primary school mathematics teachers in Mangaung township, Bloemfontein motivate their learners to understand mathematical concepts, to make sense of instructions, and to solve ...

• The ethics of managing elephants 

  Lötter, Hennie (University of the Free State, 2006)

  English: If human beings may legitimately intervene in conservation areas to let nature be and to protect the lives of all animals under their care, managing elephants must be legitimate as part of the conservation of ...

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