Browsing by Subject "Complexity"
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Bruno Latour and the myth of autonomous academic discipline : rethinking education in the light of various modes of existence
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: Issues of identity, interdependence, relationality and violence are far larger than the human species alone, although humanity has often pretended as if it alone were the beneficiaries of studying such ... -
Conceptualising a reflexive framework for leaders of opposites in diversity : language complexity at higher education institutions
(North-West University (South Africa)., 2022)This investigation provides two new reflexive frameworks. The first is a reflexive framework of opposites which interprets the dynamics of opposites in terms of five levels of interpretation: meaning, structure, power, the ... -
Conceptualising a relationship–focused approach to the co–construction of enabling school communities
(North-West University, 2010)South African schools face many challenges as they are inundated with dysfunctional behaviour. The research on South African schools indicates that behavioural challenges such as disobedience, swearing, truancy violence ... -
Extracting complexity metrics of technological artifacts and systems from patents using patent document structure
(North-West University, 2018)This study investigates the relationship between different complexity metrics from the literature and metadata fields in patents. Patent citations, claims and other fields are compared against complexity metrics derived ... -
Global megatrends and their implications for environmental assessment practice
(Elsevier, 2016)This paper addresses the future of environmental assessment (EA) practice in light of a rapidly changing world. We apply a literature review-based methodology to firstly identify key global megatrends and then reflect upon ... -
Mathematics teachers' metacognitive skills and mathematical language in the teaching-learning of trigonometric functions in township schools
(North-West University, 2014)Metacognition is commonly understood in the context of the learners and not their teachers. Extant literature focusing on how Mathematics teachers apply their metacognitive skills in the classroom, clearly distinguishes ... -
Multiple, connective intellection: the condition for invention
(2015)Since this article involves invention, the conditions for inventiveness become the issue: assuming multiple reality; thinking in a special way; transgressing boundaries; acknowledging networks (in the terms of Michel ... -
Scenarios of good Anthropocenes in southern Africa
(Elsevier, 2020)In the rapidly changing and uncertain world of the Anthropocene, positive visions of the future could play a crucial role in catalysing deep social-ecological transformations to help guide humanity towards more sustainable ... -
The South African developmental landscape: restricted potentials or expansive, complex adaptive opportunities?
(2013)This article argues that the South African developmental landscape is currently locked into an overly technical, path dependent paradigm that is unlikely to be capable of embracing the complex challenges identified by ... -
Systemic problems of capacity development for disaster risk reduction in a complex, uncertain, dynamic, and ambiguous world
(Elsevier, 2019)The international community has been engaged in capacity development for decades, sometimes under different names or with a slightly different focus. So far, these efforts have failed to bring significant and sustainable ...