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'n Vergelykende pluraliteitsanalise van die hantering van kulturele diversiteit, toegepas op Suid-Africa, die Verenigde State van Amerika en Australië
No full textEnglish: This study investigates the management of the conflict and struggles that arise when a variety of cultural groups reside in one society, under one political system (plurality). As various groups endeavour to establish their particular value system as the prevailing value system of the society, the value system of one or more of the other groups is compromised. Tension, conflict and struggle ensue. Where this struggle becomes violent, hundreds of thousands of lives can be lost. During the middle of the twentieth century, the idea emerged that plurality can be accommodated in a positive manner. Over time, this idea crystallized into the theory (or ideology) of Pluralism. The purpose of this study was to identify measures that were applied over a period of more than three centuries (1652 to 1962) in three different areas (currently known as the USA, South Africa and Australia) to manage plurality; and to determine how such measures influenced these societies in the long-term. A theory (more accurately, an ideology) like Pluralism is not the ideal instrument for objective analysis, because of its inherent value bias. This study therefore developed an empirical analytical framework through which to analyse the measures employed to handle plurality, and the effects thereof. It was felt that using this framework to conduct a comparative analysis would shed more light on both the measures that were applied over a long period in various societies, and the longterm effect of the various measures on these societies. It would also assist in projecting the probable effect of certain measures if applied to a specific society, under specific circumstances. However, the emphasis of this study is on the development of the analytical framework and the application thereof on the historical data of the chosen areas and societies from the beginning of the seventeenth century to just after the middle of the twentieth century, with a cut-off date of 1962. Although the framework was not applied to other societies, in other periods, due to the colossal nature of such an exercise, the results of this historical analysis indicate that the analytical framework developed in this study could open perspectives that could not be obtained through other methods. In the course of applying the framework illustratively to the chosen historical data, this study describes the various cultural groups involved, as well as their differences regarding numbers, language and culture. Conflicts that arose are noted, as well as the measures employed to deal with the plurality. Furthermore, from the methods that were used in various time frames, deductions are made regarding the morality that was current in those times. From an ideologically pluralistic perspective, some of the identified measures employed to cope with plurality could be regarded as negative, in that they were intended to suppress or eliminate plurality – mostly accompanied by some form of violence – whereas others could be regarded as positive, in their attempt to take plurality into consideration when determining the overarching values of the society, and even to strengthen and broaden the plurality. Finally, the morality of the actions of the various governments was judged against the prevailing morality of their times. In this study it was established that the governments of the three territories applied more or less the same methods in more or less the same periods to handle plurality under the influence of the contemporary international morality.Afrikaans: Hierdie studie ondersoek die bestuur van die konflik en stryd wat ontstaan wanneer ʼn veelheid van kulture hulle in een samelewing, onder een politieke stelsel bevind. Soos wat groepe daarna streef om hul besondere waardestelsel as die geldende waardestelsel vir die hele samelewing te vestig, word die waardestelsels van die ander groepe gekompromitteer. Spanning ontstaan en konflik en stryd volg. Wanneer hierdie stryd gewelddadig word, kan honderde duisende mense omkom.
Teen die middel van die twintigste eeu het die gedagte ontstaan dat pluraliteit op ʼn positiewe wyse geakkommodeer kan word. Hierdie gedagterigting het mettertyd
gekristalliseer in die vorm van die teorie (of ideologie) van Pluralisme.
Die doel van die studie was om die maatreëls te identifiseer wat oor ʼn tydperk van ongeveer drie en ʼn half eeue ( ongeveer 1600 tot 1962) in drie verskillende gebiede (hedendaags bekend as die VSA, Suid-Afrika en Australië) getref is om pluraliteit te hanteer en vas te stel hoe daardie maatreëls die pluraliteit in daardie samelewing oor die langtermyn beïnvloed het. ʼn Teorie (of eintlik ʼn ideologie) soos die Pluralisme is nie die ideale instrument om objektiewe ontledings mee te doen nie omdat dit van nature waardebelaaid is. Daarom is ʼn empiriese ontledingsraamwerk in hierdie studie ontwikkel waarmee die metodes om pluraliteit te hanteer, en die gevolge daarvan, ontleed kan word.
Die gedagte was dat ʼn vergelykende ontleding aan die hand van so ʼn raamwerk meer lig kan werp op sowel die metodes wat oor ʼn lang tyd in verskillende samelewings aangewend is as die gevolge oor tyd van die aanwending van bepaalde metodes
om pluraliteit te hanteer in daardie samelewings. Op hierdie wyse sou ook projeksies gemaak kon word oor watter metodes waarskynlik watter gevolge sal hê indien dit in bepaalde omstandighede in ʼn bepaalde samelewing toegepas sou word. In hierdie studie is die klem egter geplaas op die ontwikkeling van die ontledingsraamwerk en die illustratiewe toepassing daarvan op historiese gegewens naamlik dié van die reeds genoemde gebiede vanaf ongeveer die begin van die sewentiende eeu tot net na die middel van die twintigste eeu, met ʼn afsluitingsdatum van 1962.
Vooruitskouende toepassings op ander situasies in ander gebiede is derhalwe nie deel van hierdie studie nie weens die omvang wat dit sou aanneem. Die resultate wat met die historiese toepassing verkry is, dui egter daarop dat die raamwerk wat in hierdie studie ontwikkel is, perspektiewe meebring wat nie deur ander metodes verkry sou konword nie. In die loop van die toepassing van die ontledingsraamwerk op die gekose historiese gegewens is die verskillende mensegroepe beskryf sowel as hul verskille ten opsigte van onder andere getalle, taal en kultuur. Daar is gelet op die konflikte wat ontstaan het en die metodes wat aangewend is om die pluraliteit te hanteer. Daar is verder uit die gebeurtenisse
van die verskillende tydvakke afgelei watter moraliteit in daardie tydvakke geldend was.
Sommige van die geïdentifiseerde metodes om pluraliteit te hanteer kan, uit ʼn pluralistiese (ideologiese) perspektief, beskou word as negatief omdat dit probeer om die pluraliteit te onderdruk of uit die weg te ruim – meestal gepaardgaande met geweld – terwyl ander beskou kan word as positief omdat dit probeer om die pluraliteit positief te benut tydens die gesaghebbende toedeling van waardes vir die samelewing, en om die pluraliteit selfs uit te bou.
Die moraliteit van die onderskeie regerings se aksies is ook beoordeel aan die moraliteit wat in die verskillende tydperke geldend was. In hierdie studie is bevind dat die regerings van hierdie gebiede min of meer in dieselfde tydvakke (en onder dieselfde kontemporêre internasionale moraliteit ) grootliks dieselfde metodes aangewend het om pluraliteit te hanteer
ʼn Vergelykende pluraliteitsanalise van die hantering van kulturele diversiteit, toegepas op Suid-Afrika, die Verenigde State van Amerika en Australië
No full textEnglish: This study investigates the management of the conflict and struggles that arise when a variety of cultural groups reside in one society, under one political system (plurality). As various groups endeavour to establish their particular value system as the prevailing value system of the society, the value system of one or more of the other groups is compromised. Tension, conflict and struggle ensue. Where this struggle becomes violent, hundreds of thousands of lives can be lost. During the middle of the twentieth century, the idea emerged that plurality can be accommodated in a positive manner. Over time, this idea crystallized into the theory (or ideology) of Pluralism. The purpose of this study was to identify measures that were applied over a period of more than three centuries (1652 to 1962) in three different areas (currently known as the USA, South Africa and Australia) to manage plurality; and to determine how such measures influenced these societies in the long-term. A theory (more accurately, an ideology) like Pluralism is not the ideal instrument for objective analysis, because of its inherent value bias. This study therefore developed an empirical analytical framework through which to analyse the measures employed to handle plurality, and the effects thereof. It was felt that using this framework to conduct a comparative analysis would shed more light on both the measures that were applied over a long period in various societies, and the longterm effect of the various measures on these societies. It would also assist in projecting the probable effect of certain measures if applied to a specific society, under specific circumstances. However, the emphasis of this study is on the development of the analytical framework and the application thereof on the historical data of the chosen areas and societies from the beginning of the seventeenth century to just after the middle of the twentieth century, with a cut-off date of 1962. Although the framework was not applied to other societies, in other periods, due to the colossal nature of such an exercise, the results of this historical analysis indicate that the analytical framework developed in this study could open perspectives that could not be obtained through other methods. In the course of applying the framework illustratively to the chosen historical data, this study describes the various cultural groups involved, as well as their differences regarding numbers, language and culture. Conflicts that arose are noted, as well as the measures employed to deal with the plurality. Furthermore, from the methods that were used in various time frames, deductions are made regarding the morality that was current in those times. From an ideologically pluralistic perspective, some of the identified measures employed to cope with plurality could be regarded as negative, in that they were intended to suppress or eliminate plurality – mostly accompanied by some form of violence – whereas others could be regarded as positive, in their attempt to take plurality into consideration when determining the overarching values of the society, and even to strengthen and broaden the plurality. Finally, the morality of the actions of the various governments was judged against the prevailing morality of their times. In this study it was established that the governments of the three territories applied more or less the same methods in more or less the same periods to handle plurality under the influence of the contemporary international morality.Afrikaans: Hierdie studie ondersoek die bestuur van die konflik en stryd wat ontstaan wanneer ʼn veelheid van kulture hulle in een samelewing, onder een politieke stelsel bevind.
Soos wat groepe daarna streef om hul besondere waardestelsel as die geldende waardestelsel vir die hele samelewing te vestig, word die waardestelsels van die ander groepe gekompromitteer. Spanning ontstaan en konflik en stryd volg. Wanneer hierdie stryd gewelddadig word, kan honderde duisende mense omkom.
Teen die middel van die twintigste eeu het die gedagte ontstaan dat pluraliteit op ʼn positiewe wyse geakkommodeer kan word. Hierdie gedagterigting het mettertyd gekristalliseer in die vorm van die teorie (of ideologie) van Pluralisme.
Die doel van die studie was om die maatreëls te identifiseer wat oor ʼn tydperk van ongeveer drie en ʼn half eeue ( ongeveer 1600 tot 1962) in drie verskillende gebiede (hedendaags bekend as die VSA, Suid-Afrika en Australië) getref is om pluraliteit te hanteer en vas te stel hoe daardie maatreëls die pluraliteit in daardie samelewing oor die langtermyn beïnvloed het.
ʼn Teorie (of eintlik ʼn ideologie) soos die Pluralisme is nie die ideale instrument om objektiewe ontledings mee te doen nie omdat dit van nature waardebelaaid is. Daarom is ʼn empiriese ontledingsraamwerk in hierdie studie ontwikkel waarmee die metodes om pluraliteit te hanteer, en die gevolge daarvan, ontleed kan word.
Die gedagte was dat ʼn vergelykende ontleding aan die hand van so ʼn raamwerk meer lig kan werp op sowel die metodes wat oor ʼn lang tyd in verskillende samelewings aangewend is as die gevolge oor tyd van die aanwending van bepaalde metodes om pluraliteit te hanteer in daardie samelewings. Op hierdie wyse sou ook projeksies gemaak kon word oor watter metodes waarskynlik watter gevolge sal hê indien dit in bepaalde omstandighede in ʼn bepaalde samelewing toegepas sou word. In hierdie studie is die klem egter geplaas op die ontwikkeling van die ontledingsraamwerk en die illustratiewe toepassing daarvan op historiese gegewens naamlik dié van die reeds genoemde gebiede vanaf ongeveer die begin van die sewentiende eeu tot net na die middel van die twintigste eeu, met ʼn afsluitingsdatum van 1962.
Vooruitskouende toepassings op ander situasies in ander gebiede is derhalwe nie deel van hierdie studie nie weens die omvang wat dit sou aanneem. Die resultate wat met die historiese toepassing verkry is, dui egter daarop dat die raamwerk wat in hierdie studie ontwikkel is, perspektiewe meebring wat nie deur ander metodes verkry sou kon word nie.
In die loop van die toepassing van die ontledingsraamwerk op die gekose historiese gegewens is die verskillende mensegroepe beskryf sowel as hul verskille ten opsigte van onder andere getalle, taal en kultuur. Daar is gelet op die konflikte wat ontstaan het en die metodes wat aangewend is om die pluraliteit te hanteer. Daar is verder uit die gebeurtenisse van die verskillende tydvakke afgelei watter moraliteit in daardie tydvakke geldend was.
Sommige van die geïdentifiseerde metodes om pluraliteit te hanteer kan, uit ʼn pluralistiese (ideologiese) perspektief, beskou word as negatief omdat dit probeer om die pluraliteit te onderdruk of uit die weg te ruim – meestal gepaardgaande met geweld – terwyl ander beskou kan word as positief omdat dit probeer om die pluraliteit positief te benut tydens die gesaghebbende toedeling van waardes vir die samelewing, en om die pluraliteit selfs uit te bou.
Die moraliteit van die onderskeie regerings se aksies is ook beoordeel aan die moraliteit wat in die verskillende tydperke geldend was.
In hierdie studie is bevind dat die regerings van hierdie gebiede min of meer in dieselfde tydvakke (en onder dieselfde kontemporêre internasionale moraliteit) grootliks dieselfde metodes aangewend het om pluraliteit te hanteer
A conceptual study of spirituality in selected writings of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
Get PDFSeveral authors have noted that one of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze’si aims was to dissolve the mind-body dualism, typical of Cartesianism. However, there has been little research on the spirit-body connection, as it appears in Jaques-Dalcroze’s writings. The purpose of this document analysis is to understand how a hermeneutic phenomenological model for spirituality in music education (Van der Merwe & Habron, 2015) can inform our understanding of spirituality in selected writings by Jaques-Dalcroze. In the adapted model holism, balance, aesthetic experience, and movement in time, space and with energy emerged as core concepts. We conclude with suggestions for how we might teach for spirituality in Dalcroze Eurhythmics contexts, based on the findings
N.T. van der Merwe as denker
Get PDFN.T. van der Merwe as thinker
The philosophical legacy of N.T. van der Merwe is characterised as a profound concern for meaning, significance and nuance, especially as they are encountered and preserved in texts. This testifies to his inspiring pleasure in crafting rich texts himself, to his commendably thorough grasp of the history of thought and being filled with wonder and awe at the inexhaustible variety of the creation of God
Coetzenburg : die hart van Stellenbosch se sportkultuur
Get PDFCITATION: Van der Merwe, F. J. G. 2000. Coetzenburg : die hart van Stellenbosch se sportkultuur. South African Journal of Cultural History, 14(1).The original publication is available at https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA10113053_737The first owner of ""Koetzenburg"" was Dirk Coetzee to whom 24 morgen along the Eerste River were accorded by Simon van der Stel in 1682. The well-known Marais family acquired the farm in 1833 and owned it until 1960 after which it was bought by the University of Stellenbosch. The best known of the Marais' was Johannes Henoch (""Oom Jannie""). He was the owner from 1893 to 1915 and thereafter his widow until 1954. ""Oom Jannie"" had made his fortune on the diamond diggings and later invested a large part of his wealth in Stellenbosch and its surroundings. He was, inter alia, instrumental in the founding of the Burger and his 100 000 made the transformation of the Victoria College to a university possible.Publisher's versio
Rabbit Encephalopathy of Prematurity NBA data
No full textNeurobehavioral evaluations were carried out in the early mornings before feeding using a modified neurobehavioral scoring protocol described previously. Evaluations were videotaped and afterwards scored by two observers blinded to the group allocation. The evaluation was in a designated space close to their incubator with auditory and olfactory contamination kept to a minimum. Before handling they remain undisturbed in this assessment area for a 1-3min adaptation period. The motor function (tone, motor activity, and locomotion, righting reflex, and gait) and sensation (touching the whiskers with cotton swab and a mild pin prick to evaluate pain sensation on the hind limbs) including cranial nerves (olfaction, sucking and swallowing and head turn to feeding) was assessed
Rabbit Encephalopathy of Prematurity NBA data
No full textNeurobehavioral evaluations were carried out in the early mornings before feeding using a modified neurobehavioral scoring protocol described previously. Evaluations were videotaped and afterwards scored by two observers blinded to the group allocation. The evaluation was in a designated space close to their incubator with auditory and olfactory contamination kept to a minimum. Before handling they remain undisturbed in this assessment area for a 1-3min adaptation period. The motor function (tone, motor activity, and locomotion, righting reflex, and gait) and sensation (touching the whiskers with cotton swab and a mild pin prick to evaluate pain sensation on the hind limbs) including cranial nerves (olfaction, sucking and swallowing and head turn to feeding) was assessed
Rabbit Encephalopathy of Prematurity MRI Data
No full textEx vivo MRI was performed on fixed brains as described. Newborns rabbits were perfused using the active staining technique to introduce the gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent (Magnevist®, Dimeglumine Gadopentetate 0.5 mmol/mL, Bayer Schering Pharma, Berlin, Germany) into the brain parenchyma. After perfusion fixation with 4% PFA in 0.1 mol/L phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) containing 2% (10 mM) gadoteridol, the heads were removed and immersed in PFA 4% for 48h. Finally, the fixed brains, still in the cranium, were placed in PBS containing 1% (5 mM) gadoteridol at 4°C for 2 to 5 days to ensure equilibration of contrast agent, and tissue rehydration. The heads were trimmed and placed in a sample holder, surrounded by proton-free perfluoropolyether solution (Fomblin®, Solvay Solexis) that minimizes susceptibility artefacts at the interface and imaging was done with a Bruker Biospec 9.4 Tesla small animal MR scanner (Bruker Biospin, Ettlingen, Germany; horizontal bore, 20 cm) equipped with actively shielded gradients (600 mT/m) and a 3.5 cm quadrature coil (volume resonator, Rapid Biomedical, Rimpar, Germany). Analysis was done with automated template propagation for the neonatal rabbit brain and subsequent T1 volumetric data and DTI derived fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) were calculated. The volumes of each brain region were analyzed as absolute values and relative values after normalization to the body weight or total brain volume from the same animal. Data from the left and right hemispheres were summed together
'n Kerklik-akademiese portret van B J van der Merwe (1926-1968): Deel Twee - Predikant en dosent
Get PDFA pastoral-academic portrait of B J van der Merwe (1926-1968): Part two - minister and lecturer. This second part deals with Van der Merwe's years as minister in Johannesburg and Magaliesburg (1956-1964) and his years as lecturer at Unisa (1964-1968).The socio-historic conditions in the country as well as in the church during this time are sketched. Van der Merwe's publications are also discussed
Profiling consumers in home ware stores according to their decision‐making process: an exploratory study
No full texthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-6431.2007.00645.
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