Browsing AA 2006 Volume 38 Issue 1 by Issue Date
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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 ... -
Dollarisation as an alternative exchange rate regime for emerging countries
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
A theoretical exposition of the concept “spontaneous healing in children”: a SHIPiCTM perspective
(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. ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Motivating primary-school learners in mathematics classrooms
(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 ... -
An ambiguous partnership of word and tone: media “confrontation” in Mozart’s Don Giovanni
(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 ... -
Die loopbaandilemmas van akademiese personeel verbonde aan ’n veranderende Suid-Afrikaanse hoëronderwysinstelling
(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
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 provision of continuing professional development in the natural sciences at the Universityof Stellenbosch
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...