AA 2005 Volume 37 Issue 1

Deconstructing the discourse of community service and academic entrepreneurship: the ideological colonisation of the university

Visagie, Johann (University of the Free State, 2005)

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Global markets, employment restructuring and female labourers on Western Cape fruit farms

Kritzinger, Andrienetta (University of the Free State, 2005)

English: The expansion of the South African deciduous fruit export sector in the context of globalisation in the early 1990s has led to changing patterns of employment on fruit farms. Producers have downsized their ...

The cultural turn in South African translation: rehabilitation, subversion and resistance

Naudé, Jacobus (University of the Free State, 2005)

English: For many years translation was viewed as a faithful equivalent substitute for the source text. The cultural turn of the 1980s heralded a move on the part of contemporary translation studies away from the ...

Philosophy of education as action: transcending the division between theory and practice

Waghid, Yusef (University of the Free State, 2005)

English: Philosophers of education are often criticised for not being “practical” about educational issues. Their work is often seen as being too theoretical and failing to be responsive to practical situations in ...

Civil society and policy-making on education: the Gauteng Education and Training Council

Heckroodt, Annetia; Van Wyk, Noleen; Lemmer, Leanor (University of the Free State, 2005)

English: The Gauteng Education and Training Council (GETC) is the first statutory council instituted in South Africa’s new democratic dispensation which allows civil society to participate in policy-making on education. ...

Crucial management skills for principals of township secondary schools

Masitsa, Gilbert (University of the Free State, 2005)

English:Principals of secondary schools in townships are experiencing increasing management problems. Research indicates that principals with insufficient or non-existant school management skills may encounter management ...

Strategies for preventing learner vandalism

De Wet, Corene (University of the Free State, 2005)

English:School vandalism is a serious problem as it places a heavy burden on education budgets and can cause teaching and learning to collapse. Learners have the right to be taught in neat, clean school buildings and ...

Poetry and the emergence of the voice

Peeters, Leopold (University of the Free State, 2005)

English: Poetry seems to occupy an ever-diminishing place in contemporary culture and this situation has given rise to speculation about its coming to an end, as so many other realms of human spiritual creation have ...