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ROOD, W.H. Inventory of documents
No full textCOVERAGE: 1946-1948MP for Barberton (1924-1929); MP for Carolina (1929-1938); Periodical DIE NUWE ORD
A first and second order cybernetic analysis of barriers facing sexuality education in secondary schools
No full textIn light of the growing concern regarding HIV and AIDS, teenage pregnancies, gender violence and suicides among adolescents of alternative sexualities, South African education has become increasingly critical in establishing spaces of inclusivity and promoting acceptance and social justice for inclusivity. Sexuality education was implemented as a subcomponent of the subject Life Orientation, mandatory to all secondary-school learners, as a core initiative to address issues of sexuality and culture that remain rife within South African society. However, the ideal change at societal level has not been realised, with gender inequality and sexuality barriers to social justice remaining prevalent. Research within the area of sexuality education has gained considerable momentum at both national and global levels, exploring the challenges associated with crossing multicultural fissures in bridging the gap between the theoretical ideals of socially just sexuality education and the practical implications thereof within society. This study aims to investigate, from a multicultural contextual approach, how schools implement sexuality education, and the subsequent challenges faced during the teaching thereof. While a wide scope of research explores individual challenges within the system (such as teacher bias, parental objections and textbook restrictions), a systemic perspective is needed to explore the wider suprasystem of South African contexts in order to better comprehend how micro-level challenges arise specific to the place, space and cultures of schools. Responding thereto, this thesis approaches sexuality education from a systemic perspective based on First and Second Order Cybernetics. The initial part of the study encompasses a grounded theoretical approach to gain perspective on the dominant components that inform systemic structure within which sexuality education manifests (specifically drawing on school-level, Exploring Sexuality Education in Secondary Schools community-level and national-level systemic influences). A prominent feedback process that was found to stagnate socially just education, in the form of ‘silence’, emerged, which is further explored within the manner that sexuality education stagnates to adapting national benchmark standards of social justice and inclusivity. After establishing the basis of the desktop reviews, the study empirically analyses, through semi-structured interviews, the views and perspectives of Life Orientation teachers and school management as a means to contextualise the challenges schools face as individual systems and the manner in which they respond to these challenges at wider systemic level. Results point to the way place, space and culture are core mediators of how sexuality education manifests within schools. In conclusion to this thesis, I reflect on my own experiences to the barriers and boundaries to sexuality education that I have experienced during my own teaching career. Through this process of self-reflection, I convey how my pedagogical approach to sexuality education and multicultural teachings have been shaped and adapted within the various systems and subsequent contexts I worked within. Finally, I draw on recommendations which include the need for teachers to engage collaboratively across subject and disciplinary boundaries as a means to promote sexuality education, while also promoting the ongoing need for reflexivity to form the basis of shaping one’s teacher identity, and adaptability of one’s pedagogical methods to best align with the needs of the school system
Students' perspectives on the primary health care practice learning enviroment
No full textPrimary Health Care (PHC) practice environments provide unique opportunities for students to learn clinical skills and acquire professional competence. To enhance clinical learning, the PHC practice learning environment must be supportive to the students’ learning needs and also for professional nurses to educate students. The researcher’s interest to conduct this study was raised by the negative feedback received from students and their supervisors, following the students’ required primary healthcare clinical placement. The study focused on the views of the students regarding the PHC practice learning environment, as they are at the centre in clinical practice.
The aim of the study was to describe the primary healthcare practice learning environment from the students’ perspective. The description of the students’ perspectives on the primary health care practice learning environment could help improve the supportive relationship between the Free State School of Nursing, the Primary Health Care (PHC) clinical facilities and the students, and consequently enhance clinical learning. A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional design was followed to describe the perspectives of student nurses. The study population consisted of the 3rd year students from the Eastern, Northern and Southern campuses of a Free State School of Nursing, who completed their second year primary health care clinical practice in 2016.
A structured self-administrative questionnaire was developed from MacKenzie’s (2010) qualitative study on the problems of undergraduate student nurses’ learning experiences in primary healthcare clinics and relevant literature to collect data. A total number of 146 students voluntarily completed the questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse data.
The results showed that the students were mostly supported before clinical placement, on the commencement of clinical placement and during clinical placement. However, the percentage of positive responses received during clinical placement was lower than that of the support received before and on the commencement of clinical placement. Furthermore, the respect professional nurses showed towards patients and their families, the relationships students had with other members of the multidisciplinary team, communication between lecturers and professional nurses, the availability of human and material resources all needed much improvement. On a positive note, the services at PHC practice learning environments were found to be adequate. A comparison of certain statements between the three campuses showed that Campus C students responded positively in most statements. On the whole, the finding of this study shows that the PHC practice environments do not adequately support students’ clinical learning. The Campus C PHC practice learning environment was found to better enhance the students’ clinical learning, than the Campus A and B practice learning environments.
Recommendations that were made based on the results of this study included the adequate preparation of professional nurses by the lecturers before clinical placement. To improve supervision during clinical placement, preceptorship and mentorship programmes were recommended. Furthermore, creating a practice learning environment that nurtures clinical learning (good role modelling by professional nurses; the approachable attitude of nurses towards students and the providing of a high standard of care by professional nurses) could benefit students. The effective communication between lecturers and professional nurses is crucial to enhance clinical learning. The researcher therefore, suggests that future research focuses on the development and implementation of relevant/collaborative clinical practice environment programmes and assessment tools
The spirituality of Bantu Stephen Biko: a theology from below
No full textThis thesis employs the lived religion theoretical paradigm in its attempts to interpret Bantu Stephen Biko’s spirituality. Lived religion’s strength lies in that it emphasises religion as a lifestyle and focuses on the lived experiences of people. Therefore, of interest is how Biko, a “young layman”, challenged the boundaries that delineate the sacred and the profane. The study critically engages selected writings of Biko with the intention of understanding and explaining his spirituality. Three themes were identified on his views and criticism of the church, namely “leadership of the church”, “content of theology”, and the “form of religion”. His spirituality can be defined as a secular spirituality; that is, spirituality lived outside the boundaries of religion. Biko united issues of religion and politics, and by so doing he redefined political activism as belonging to the realm of the sacred. In Biko, activism is seen as imbued with religious meaning and inhabited by forms of religious practice, because in organising black people to see their worth and by confronting injustice, Biko engaged in practices that were at the same time as religious as they were political. He lived his religion, and it became meaningful to him as religious ideas and beliefs were experienced through actions and emotions. He did all this by challenging the boundaries that delineate the sacred and the profane
Rights and religion; bias and beliefs: can a judge speak God?
No full textThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 guarantees everyone the right to freedom of expression and religion. The Constitution also places the power to resolve disputes impartially in the judiciary. The requirement that judges be impartial may, in some circumstances, mean that a judge’s beliefs or convictions may appear to be in conflict with one or more constitutional principles. This article analyses the relationship and apparent tension between a judge’s duty to apply the law in a fair and impartial manner and his/her own personal right to freedom of religion. More specifically, it examines the extent to which a judge may allow his/her religious beliefs to influence his judgment. It argues that judges, like all other citizens, do not surrender their rights to freedom of expression and religion when they are appointed to the bench, and that a judge who publicly expresses his religious beliefs should not be, ipso facto, without more ado, criticised for it.Publisher's versio
ERASMUS, Francois Christiaan Inventory of documents
No full textCOVERAGE 1939-1954; 11 Files; 0,11 Metres.
AUDIO CASSETTES IN ARCA COLLECTION = 3Private papers of F.C. Erasmus, National Party MP Moorreesburg [1933-1961], Minister of Defence [1948-1959], Posts and Telegraphs [1949-1950], Forestry [1956-1958], Justice [1959-1961
A century of mountaineering: race, class and the politics of climbing Table Mountain, 1890 – 1990
No full textMountaineering in Cape Town was first practised as a sport by the colonial elite during the late 19th Century. This historical review of two mountain clubs analyses the linkages between race, class and mountaineering in Cape Town, South Africa. The origins of mountaineering are inextricable from the racial hierarchy of colonial society, which was founded upon discrimination, segregation and unequal power relations between black and white. This is evident in the development of the exclusively white Mountain Club of South Africa – an organisation deeply embedded in the privileged political establishment. Similarly, the racialised power relations of the 20th Century would be reflected in the club’s distant, exclusionary and paternalistic relationship with local black mountaineers and the Cape Province Mountain Club. Through an exploration of the developmental trajectories of these two, at one time racially exclusive, mountaineering clubs, their interaction with each other and their navigation of the contemporary socio-political context, this paper tells the history and politics of climbing Table Mountain between 1890 to 1990.Publisher's versio
Salinity effects on grain yield and quality of malt barley in irrigated soils with water tables
No full textGlobal water scarcity and salinity of irrigated lands remains a concern. Shallow groundwater tables, often present in irrigation areas, may serve as energy efficient water sources, but they also restrict leaching of salts, especially in arid and semi-arid regions where high evapotranspiration exacerbates salinity. This study aimed at assessing salinity effects on water use, grain yield and grain quality of irrigated malt barley in the presence of a shallow groundwater table.
The experiment was conducted over two seasons in lysimeters filled with a sandy Clovelly soil and a sandy loam Bainsvlei soil in which shallow saline groundwater table was maintained at a constant depth of 1.2 m. Cocktail barley cultivar was irrigated with five different irrigation water quality levels (ECi), i.e. control, 450, 600, 900 and 1200 mS m-1 made up of six different salts in varying amounts. Salinity of the groundwater table corresponded to irrigation water quality. Soil water balance was calculated from soil water measurements and used to determine crop water use. Seasonal salt balance of the root zone was also monitored.
Saline irrigation water had cumulative effects on evapotranspiration, groundwater table depletion and grain yield as well as water productivity. Increasing irrigation water salinity from the control to the1200 mS m-1 ECi reduced grain yield by 91 and 89% for the Clovelly and Bainsvlei soil types, respectively, in the second season. Relationship between grain yield and salinity was better explained by the Van Genuchten & Gupta (1993) (R2=0.8) sigmoidal curve depicting the effect of ECe on grain yield of barley to be non-linear.
Salinity (> 600 mS m-1) decreased 1000 seed weight and had no significant effect on germination characteristics. However, grain nitrogen, protein and sugar contents were increased by salinity. Nitrogen significantly increased above the cultivar’s inherent mean of 1.87%. Maltose was the only sugar not affected by both salinity and soil types. Increase in salinity reduced malt extract potential as indicated by lower (<7) germination index values for all treatments, seasons and soils with lower (<5.5) germination index values associated with the 900 and 1200 ECi mS m-1 treatments. This outcome may hold direct impact on barley producers as a lower premium is offered for lower quality grains. Therefore, further research is needed to explore interactive effects of salinity and other abiotic stresses on grain quality and the influence of cultivar variations. Furthermore, subsequent financial impact on grain processors need to be assessed.Winter Cereal Trus
VAN ASWEGEN, A.L.W. Agter die doringdraad in Koffiefontein
No full textCOVERAGE: 1948; 0.01 metreOne publication: Agter die doringdraad in Koffiefontein (Behind the barbed-wire fence
