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The potential contribution of the intended high school curriculum at exit level to the entrepreneurship education of South African youth
(Allied Business Academies, 2018)The highest unemployment rates recorded in South Africa since 2003 were announced in November 2016. Youth unemployment is still higher than the national average, adding to the conundrum. Government officials have long been ... -
A neglected opportunity: entrepreneurship education in the lower high school curricula for technology in South Africa and Botswana
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Technology is a school subject that forms part of the compulsory curriculum for high school learners in South Africa, and is a core theme in the subject Design and Technology in Botswana high schools. Knowledge and ... -
Exploring corporate reputation variables to measure personal reputations
(University of Johannesburg, 2017)his explorative article qualitatively describes reputation variables that are applicable to both corporate and personal reputations: identity, image, branding, personality, behaviour, culture, ethics and storytelling. The ... -
Disaster risk problem framing: insights from societal perceptions in Zimbabwe
(Elsevier, 2017)As disasters are on the rise with devastating consequences, understanding the dynamics of disaster risk problem framing is crucial because the way in which a problem is framed circumscribes the search for solutions to that ... -
The Management of Health Risks in the Kwazulu-Natal Department of Education
(ASSADPAM, 2017)Employees are generally regarded as the most valuable asset of any organisation. It is thus critical that employees' general well-being be promoted to ensure that health risks such as sickness, employee incapacity, and ... -
Theories for research in Public Administration
(African Consortium of Public Administration (ACPA), 2017)Theory underpins social science endeavours by providing the philosophical assumptions on the following aspects: aspects that constitute social reality (ontology); is accepted as valid evidence of that reality (epistemology); ... -
Incorporating religion when teaching cultural diversity issues in public administration
(ASSADPAM, 2017)The world of governance is changing rapidly and the pluralisation of worldviews is fast becoming a prevalent feature of the public sector. Societal worldviews are closely intertwined with governance. Therefore, prospective ... -
Weerlose weemoed: die poësie van Luuk Gruwez (1953-)
(Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging (ALV), 2016)Luuk Gruwez is one of the best-known and anthologized poets in the Dutch language. A few years ago he was relatively unknown in the Afrikaans literary world, but this situation changed dramatically with his attendance of ... -
Periphrastic progressive constructions in Dutch and Afrikaans: a contrastive analysis
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)Given the common ancestry of Dutch and Afrikaans, it is not surprising that they use similar periphrastic constructions to express progressive meaning: aan het (Dutch) and aan die/'t (Afrikaans) lit. 'at the'; bezig met/(om) ... -
Die aard en plek van die geheel-dele relasie - gesien vanuit 'n algemeen-wysgerige sowel as 'n vakfilosofiese perspektief = The nature and place of the whole-parts relation both from a general philosophical perspective and from that of the philosophy of the special sciences
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)his article focuses on the broader philosophical and special scientific context within which an account is given of the nature and place of the whole-parts relation within scholarly disciplines (the natural sciences and ... -
Wysgerige onderskeidinge relevant vir 'n besinning oor staat en samelewing met besondere verwysing na Koos Malan se politokrasie
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)Recently reflections on state and society were enriched by the contributions of various authors in Afrikaans. Of particular interest in this regard is a work written by Koos Malan (professor in Constitutional Law). It ... -
Besinning oor staat en samelewing
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)In classical antiquity and during the medieval era political life was organized in kingdoms or empires in which the ruler (monarch or emperor) was not yet appreciated as occupying a public-legal office. But throughout the ... -
Function laws and type laws-a significant link between philosophy and the special sciences
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2017)The difference between function concepts and entity concepts is found in all the special sciences. Philosophy initially, in ancient Greece and during the Middle Ages, gave primacy to the substance concept. Since the ... -
The alleged 'essentialism' of Dooyeweerd
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2017)Ed Echeverria argues that Jonathan Chaplin attempts to avoid social constructivism by grounding the normativity (structural-typical invariance) of societal entities in the invariant "possibilities or potentials given with ... -
Die wisselende rol van kontinuïteit en diskontinuïteit in die geskiedenis van die filosofie en die wiskunde
(AOSIS, 2017)Hierdie artikel wil lig werp op die onvermydelikheid van diskreetheid en kontinuïteit as primitiewe (ondefinieerbare) verklaringswyses in die geskiedenis van die filosofie en die wiskunde. Dit beliggaam die algemene uitdaging ... -
Kontinuïteit en diskontinuïteit in die fisika en biologie
(AOSIS, 2017)Hoewel die mening van die klassieke fisici was dat die natuur geen spronge maak nie - dit is kontinu en oneindig verder verdeelbaar - sou die 20ste-eeuse fisici spoedig besef dat daar ondeelbare elementêre deeltjies (kwanta) ... -
Historical and systematic considerations regarding the four most basic philosophical assertions
(Ponte Editore, 2017)One of the hall-marks of early Greek philosophy is that it commences with an awareness of certain basic aspects of reality. Reflecting on these aspects gave rise to recurrent issues, such as the problem of unity and ... -
The indispensable role of systematic philosophical reflection in scholarship
(University of South Africa (UNISA), 2017)Sometimes systematic theoretical thinking is identified with abstract (formal) schemes. This opposition is also found in Malan and Goosen's dismissal of Dooyeweerdian reformational thinking. This article aims at making a ... -
Liberating language and concepts of the divine in contemporary hymnody
(AOSIS, 2017)This article will examine from an auto-ethnographic perspective the language of hymnody and how it has developed over the last 25 years through the period of secularisation and postsecularisation. It will interrogate and ... -
Oliver Tambo en die kommunisme = Oliver Tambo and communism
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)Oliver Tambo, who led the ANC/SACP alliance throughout the difficult struggle era, is often portrayed as a religious Christian who, not being a member of the SACP, allied himself only for pragmatic reasons with that party. ...
