Browsing AA 2006 Volume 38 Issue 1 by Issue Date
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Die kennisvraagstuk in wetenskap en geloof
(University of the Free State, 2006)English: This article deals with the question of whether the kind of knowledge claims made in confessions of faith are reconcilable with the knowledge claims of the modern experimental sciences. This issue is addressed ... -
Drop-out in township secondary schools: educators’ perspectives
(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 ... -
Teaching mentally disabled learners
(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 ... -
Community-based education: a case study of the MED 113 expo at the University of the Free State
(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 ... -
New security thinking: defence and societal transformation in South Africa
(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 ... -
The daily experience of farm dwellers on a commercial farm inthe North-West Province
(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 ethics of managing elephants
(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 ... -
The incorporation of African traditional health practitioners into the South African health care system
(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 ... -
The South African government, co-optive power and ideological hegemony
(University of the Free State, 2006)English: In South Africa’s new democracy two trends are becoming apparent: political centralisation and the weakening of agents of political accountability. The article argues, first, that these trends are the result of ... -
Basic concepts and the interconnection between academic disciplines
(University of the Free State, 2006)English: The differentiation and specialisation of academic disciplines may create the impression that the various academic disciplines are not truly related. Yet a thorough analysis of the basic concepts employed within ... -
Forgery, fiction and pseudonym in the collection of medical letters prefacing Marcellus’s De medicamentis
(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 ... -
Geskiedsfilosofie as godsdiensfilosofie:’n lesing van Wolfhart Pannenberg se hermeneutiek van die geskiedenis
(University of the Free State, 2006)English: In this essay, a critical reading of the philosophy of history in the early work of Wolfhart Pannenberg is developed. An attempt will be made to bring the hermeneutic aspect of his philosophy to the fore, with ... -
Oral people can be literate: some reflections on aurally based literacy
(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 ... -
The work experience of white male academics
(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 ... -
In defence of history as a school subject
(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 ... -
Teaching aspects of English sentences to second-language learners: a Nigerian example
(University of the Free State, 2006)English: This paper is informed by a study carried out among 720 randomly selected senior secondary school learners from 36 randomly selected secondary schools from the Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Lagos, Ondo and Ekiti States of ... -
Cognitive dimensions of politics: relativism and rationalism
(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 ... -
Using multiple-choice questions,short questions and exercises to assess student performance
(University of the Free State, 2006)English: Multiple-choice questions, short questions and exercises were used to assess the performance of students in environmental and water sciences at the University of the Western Cape (Bellville, South Africa). The ... -
Christian faith and economic life: some Kuyperian themes
(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 ... -
Rights of love and the dynamics of social benevolence: interpreting Martin Luther’s thoughts on social rights
(University of the Free State, 2006)English: A constructive interpretation of Martin Luther’s teaching on social rights reveals that human rights are not the institutions or instruments of evil that some Christian viewpoints take them to be. On the contrary, ...