Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.17159/2224-7912/2023/v63n1a9
A. Els, E. Vos, R. van Oort, D. Kruger
Guidelines for developing self-directed readers and learners in Natural Science The results of research completed in 2021 with a speci fi c group of Grade 8 Natural Science learners at a school in the Free State are discussed in this article. The problem statement of this study was that this group of Grade 8 Natural Science learners could not read and understand texts in a self-directed manner, and thus comprehension of these texts was lost. The learners’ loss of comprehension had a huge impact on their academic performance. Within the interpretivist research paradigm, a qualitative research method, convenience sampling and a variety of data-gathering techniques were used. The data collection methods were based on a content and thematic analysis of a literature review and the analysis of documents. From this, overlapping themes were identi fi ed which helped with curriculating of the lesson series. In addition, the effectiveness of the study was determined by analysing the eight learner-centred lessons and observation checklists, pre-journal entries, re fl ective post-journal entries and the pre- and post-tests. Firstly, the scienti fi c investigation involved a literature review focused on multimodal reading, viewing, and learning strategies with the aim of integrating these strategies into the lesson series. The focus of the lesson series was to help these Natural Science learners become self-directed readers and learners of different Natural Science texts. The relationship between self-directed reading and learning was thoroughly explored, and it was discovered that self-directed reading leads to self-directed learning. The cognitive development phase of Grade 8 learners was investigated in this research
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.17159/2224-7912/2023/v63n1a1
D. Cloete, H. Kotze
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.17159/2224-7912/2023/v63n1a10
J. Mclachlan
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.17159/2224-7912/2023/v63n1a5
Herbeoordeling van Niccolò, F. Cloete
A reassessment of Niccolò Machiavelli’s the-end-justifies-the-means approach to governance This article reassesses Niccolò Machiavelli’s contribution to political governance theory and practice. At the height of the Renaissance, Machiavelli was one of the most influential intellectuals. He was also a consummate and influential senior strategist, diplomat, negotiator and public official in the “democratic” Florentine Republic from 1494 to 1512. He gained extensive governance experience before the republican government was toppled in a coup by a member of its former absolutist Medici rulers, and he was arrested as a traitor, tortured and exiled from Florence. He remained in exile until his death in 1527.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.17159/2224-7912/2023/v63n1a11
E. Francken
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.17159/2224-7912/2023/v63n1a7
B. Olivier
Knowledge workers and neoliberal governmentality – Benda Hofmeyr’s Foucault and Governmentality: Living to Work in the Age of Control Who would work all the time, if they have the opportunity to relax, or to spend time pleasantly and socially-constructively with their families or friends? Most people would probably shake their heads in disbelief when confronted with evidence that there is a group of individuals who actually do this ostensibly irrational thing. This distinct human assemblage comprises so-123
{"title":"Kenniswerkers en neoliberale \"goewermentaliteit\" - Benda Hofmeyr se Foucault and Governmentality: Living _ to Work in the Age of Control","authors":"B. Olivier","doi":"10.17159/2224-7912/2023/v63n1a7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17159/2224-7912/2023/v63n1a7","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge workers and neoliberal governmentality – Benda Hofmeyr’s Foucault and Governmentality: Living to Work in the Age of Control Who would work all the time, if they have the opportunity to relax, or to spend time pleasantly and socially-constructively with their families or friends? Most people would probably shake their heads in disbelief when confronted with evidence that there is a group of individuals who actually do this ostensibly irrational thing. This distinct human assemblage comprises so-123","PeriodicalId":42800,"journal":{"name":"Tydskrif Vir Geesteswetenskappe","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67479146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.17159/2224-7912/2023/v63n1a2
Die waarde van literêre, teater in die bewussyns, K. Conradie, Estelle Swart
The value of literary theatre in the consciousness education of psychotherapy students The capacity to comprehend experiences in a coherent way and attribute meaning to existence is unique to human beings. Through Dasein, being consciously concerned with the onto-phenomenological experience, thus interpreting what it means to exist amid that which is and is still becoming, human beings strive to connect with their Lebenswelt (a lived world). Only when individuals are consciously receptive to and involved in their own ontological being and becoming can they empathise with the very nature of another. Woven into this larger disposition characterised by continuous onto-phenomenological self-making-in-a-situation (Bildung) – the Nietzschean call – is the empathic attitude. In the context of psychology, in particular psychotherapy, the empathic attitude – that is, being sensitively aware of how we understand ourselves, others and the world we share – is undeniably part of the repertoire of qualities that a therapist ought to possess. Often, however, the attitude of novice therapists towards what is happening between them and their clients here and now involves inflated self-awareness that is devoid of ontological considerations . Frequently, this results in a clichéd form of empathy based primarily on sentimental emotionality. It seems to be true that, in a ubiquitous cyberculture characterised by self-absorption and the mere accumulation of simplistic explanations, the ability to be ontologically receptive – as the sine qua non of an empathetic attitude – is gradually becoming undervalued.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.17159/2224-7912/2023/v63n1a6
A. Düvenhage
Coalition politics in South Africa: The art of the (im)possible? Recently conducted opinion polls on the support bases of political parties vary, but nevertheless emphasise significant decline in political support for the governing ANC, already ruling for 28 years. Since its peak of support in 1999 (at national level nearly 70% support, in other words a majority of more than two-thirds), a gradual decline in support for the ANC has been evident. In the municipal elections held in 2021 the ANC could mobilise only about 46% support across municipalities and provinces. Following this trend of gradual declining support, some of these polls indicate a decline in support for the ANC to as low as 37%, while others estimate it at 42%. Against the background of a rapidly changing political environment, driven by political, economic and social factors, the South African political scene reached a tipping point, with large demands arising with regard to, amongst other things, the consolidation of democratic values. The third decade of the democratic dispensation can be decisive for the
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n4a12
C. Lötter
Are offenders entitled to a right to rehabilitation or rather to a rehabilitation-driven environment ? This contribution critically examines Omar’s (2011) claim
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.17159/2224-7912/2022/v62n4a1
F. Durand
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a devastating socio-economic effect on the country, including the death of more than 102 000 people, many of whom were the breadwinners of their families. This could not have happened at a worse time, since the economy of the country was in a recession even before the pandemic. The situation is exacerbated by the highest level of unemployment in the world, widespread nepotism and corruption, the plundering of state coffers and the favouring of the business interests of BRICS partners by government officials over those of South Africans. The government's commitment to prioritising their BRICS partners' business interests over those of the South African people contributes to food insecurity in South Africa. This includes the export of coal from mines in Mpumalanga to China and India, while nothing is done to rehabilitate the region, which was once known for its agriculture. The government handed over to the Chinese company SAEMB the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone, where four opencast mines, a 3 300 MW power station and an iron smelting plant will be developed. This development, however, requires the government to build a dam that will harvest 60% of the annual runoff of the Limpopo River, which in turn will have a devastating effect on farmers and communities downriver in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique who irrigate their crops with water from the Limpopo River. The same kowtowing of the South African government to its BRICS partners can be seen in the reluctance with which the government responds to the plundering of our marine resources by Chinese fishing boats and abalone smugglers. The unfair competition imposed on local chicken farmers by distributers of dumped chicken, mainly from Brazil, with the approval of government, caused the closure of several South African chicken farms and the resulting loss of tens of thousands of jobs along the supply chain. The reluctance of the government to take sides in the Russia-Ukraine war is partly linked to the fact that South Africa imports fertilizer and wheat from Russia. South Africa, a water-scarce country, is more vulnerable than many other countries to the effects of global climate change. The abnormal rain pattern, that is characterised by severe droughts in certain regions and heavy rainstorms and floods in others, has a devastating impact on the already economically struggling South African community. Abroad, attempts are made to ensure that mean temperatures do not exceed the pre-industrial level mark by more than 1,5 °C. South Africa, however, heats up twice as fast as many other countries, and has already exceeded the pre-industrial era level by more than 2 °C;it will continue to get warmer and drier, causing most of the country to become desertified by 2050. A third of South African rivers do not reach the sea anymore because of over ion of water from rivers;similarly, there is extensive ion of groundwater. Together farming and forestry account for 70
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