Browsing AA 2003 Volume 35 Issue 3 by Title
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and intrinsic motivation
(University of the Free State, 2003)English: Researchers struggle to conceptualise Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), because the prevailing construct is constantly challenged by new research findings. However, the current focus of research has ... -
The Copernican turn of biology in the early twentieth century
(University of the Free State, 2003)English: The emergence of the term Umwelt within twentieth-century biological thought is reminiscent of the turn towards the “subject” in early modern philosophy. The term Umwelt originally had a spatial connotation, which ... -
Educators’ motivation: differences related to gender, age and experience
(University of the Free State, 2003)English: This article explores factors influencing the motivation of educators in terms of gender, age and years of experience. A questionnaire was adapted from Wright’s 51 incentives that motivate educators and administered ... -
Effective mediation in a rural community
(University of the Free State, 2003)English: Although mediation is gaining considerable popularity on the African continent, very little research has been conducted into its nature and effectiveness. Even the most basic questions about mediation in rural ... -
Justifying course and task design in language teaching
(University of the Free State, 2003)English: We often neglect to justify course and task design in language teaching in terms of current insight. This article articulates a number of general considerations that influence course design in communicative language ... -
Managing the disclosure of school learners’ HIV status
(University of the Free State, 2003)Englsih: This paper deals with school governing bodies’ (SGBs) understanding and implementation of legislation and policy on HIV/AIDS. It is based on research conducted in Mpumalanga by means of an authentic but hypothetically ... -
Postgraduate supervision: students’ and supervisors’ perceptions
(University of the Free State, 2003)English: The aim of this research was to compare the views of postgraduate students and supervisors on the supervisory process in the Faculty of Education at the University of South Africa. The research was conducted in ... -
Reason and madness: reading Walter Benjamin and Anselm Kiefer through Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I
(University of the Free State, 2003)English: In this study I propose to appropriate Albrecht Dürer’s well-known engraving from 1514, Melencolia I, as an allegorical image through which to read both Walter Benjamin’s theory of allegory and Anselm Kiefer’s ... -
‘Die wêreld se toomlose onderstebokeer-passie’ — die boerehuis, arbeid en etniese mobilisasie in Bywoners (1919) van Jochem van Bruggen
(University of the Free State, 2003)English: As brief as a novella, and published years before D F Malherbe’s Die meulenaar (1926) and C M van den Heever’s Op die plaas (1927) — generally cited as the first Afrikaans pastoral novels — Bywoners (1919) by ...