Browsing AA 2006 Volume 38 Issue 1 by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...