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A long walk to obedience: missiology and mission under scrutiny (1910-2010)
(AOSIS, 2017)This article describes the discipline of missiology and mission over the last century since Edinburgh 1910 followed by two world wars to Edinburgh 2010, as a long walk to obedience - a walk in discerning God's will. Even ... -
A pastoral evaluation and responses to the challenge of spiritual insecurity in African pastoral ministry and Christianity
(AOSIS, 2017)This article argues that there is a form of Christian syncretism operating in African Christians' use of traditional African powers to address their spiritual insecurity challenges that arises from their former traditional ... -
A practical-theological reflection on the usage of symbols and metaphors in intercultural pastoral care in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2016)The African continent is associated with a variety of problems. Irrespective of having achieved a new democracy more than two decades ago, South Africa still seems to suffer the same fate as the rest of the continent because ... -
A proposition for an integrated church and community intervention to adolescent and youth sexual reproductive health challenges
(AOSIS, 2016)Adolescents and youth in South Africa comprise about 30% of the total population. This phenomenon is referred to as a youth bubble. Research shows that 52% of young people have had full penetrative sex by age 17, and yet ... -
A quality management model for community newspapers: the case of developing countries
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Managers' ability to effectively and efficiently obtain, manage and utilise organisational resources plays an important role in the quality of the product their organisations present audiences with. A literature review ... -
A radical feminism assessment of women's recant of the male symbolic order in the name of difference
(IFE Centre for Psychological Studies (ICPS), 2016)Feminism, in general is a belief that women are and should be treated as potential intellectual equals and social equals to men. Though the ideology is commonly and perhaps falsely associated mainly with women, a feminist ... -
A reason to stay healthy: the role of meaning in life in relation to physical activity and healthy eating among adolescents
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2015)The present longitudinal study investigated the incremental contribution of meaning in life to sustaining health–promoting behaviors, after controlling for well–being and health values among East–European adolescents (N = ... -
A rediscovery of the priesthood of believers in Ephesians 4:1-16 and its relevance for the Missio Dei and a biblical missional ecumenism
(AOSIS, 2017)This article is dedicated to Professor Sarel van der Merwe as missiologist and what he had done for the cause of the missio Dei in South Africa. The role of the laity in the missio Dei was one of the most significant ... -
A review of quantitative studies of South African youth resilience: Some gaps
(ASSAf, 2015)Resilience (positive adjustment to hardship) relies on a socioecologically facilitated process in which individuals navigate towards, and negotiate for, health–promoting resources, and their social ecology, in return, ... -
A review of self-determination theory's basic psychological needs at work
(Sage, 2016)Self-determination theory (SDT) conceptualizes basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness as innate and essential for ongoing psychological growth, internalization, and well-being. We broadly review ... -
A strengths-based group intervention for women who experienced child sexual abuse
(Sage, 2017)Purpose: This study evaluated the benefits of a "survivor to thriver" strengths-based group intervention program to facilitate posttraumatic growth in women survivors of child sexual abuse. Method: A quasi-experimental, ... -
A structural model of technology acceptance
(AOSIS, 2015)Orientation: Enterprise resource systems have not always led to significant organisational enhancement and many projects in which these systems have been implemented turn out to be over budget, not on time and unsuccessf ... -
A survey of research foci and paradigms in media and communication Master's dissertations and Doctoral theses in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)This study set out to evaluate the foci and paradigms of research in media and communication at Master's and doctoral levels in South Africa. A sample of 241 dissertations and theses in the communication, journalism and ... -
A systematic review of Bayesian articles in psychology: the Last 25 Years
(American Psychological Association, 2017)Although the statistical tools most often used by researchers in the field of psychology over the last 25 years are based on frequentist statistics, it is often claimed that the alternative Bayesian approach to statistics ... -
A unified public administration? Revisiting the prospects of constructing a grand theory for the field
(Kamla-Raj, 2016)Since the early origins of Public Administration, scholars bemoan the absence of a grand, unifying theory for this applied, social science as a discipline. From their arguments it seems that the absence of a unified theory ... -
'Aan die' en 'besig' in Afrikaanse progressiwiteitskonstruksies: 'n korpusondersoek (2)
(Suid–Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2015)In 'n tweetal artikels (hierdie artikel en Breed & Van Huyssteen 2014) stel ons ondersoek in na die wyse waarop twee perifrastiese konstruksies, te wete die VKOP besig om te V- en die VKOP aan die V-konstruksies, gebruik ... -
Academic acculturation: the case of writing in an EFL teaching and learning environment
(SAALT/SAVTO, 2012)The transition from secondary to tertiary education is not just a change of physical environment, but it is also a change of culture. It has been shown that first year students' academic performance and their motivation ... -
Academic communications skills: where to from here?
(IFE Centre for Psychological Studies (ICPS), 2016)Academic communication skills or academic literacies have been, since their inception after the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, been aimed at assisting to achieve the broader goals of a restorative democracy ... -
Academic literacy of South African higher education level students: does vocabulary size matter?
(University of Stellenbosch, 2015)This study explores the extent to which vocabulary size matters in academic literacy. Participants (first-year students at North-West University) were administered the Vocabulary Levels Test (Schmitt, Schmitt and Clapham ...