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Exploration of transnationalism as a concept and phenomenon in Public Administration
(2015)Transnationalism as both a phenomenon and a concept has received negligible attention in modern times in relation to the practice of public administration and its corresponding field of study. This article provides an ... -
An exploratory survey of professional accountants' perceptions of interpersonal communication in organisations
(Wiley, 2011)This survey explored the perceptions of South African professional accountants regarding the phenomenon interpersonal communication within their day-to-day experiences within their organisational settings and the perceived ... -
Exploring a cohort of South African lecturers' views on the implementation of rubrics in a higher education environment
(Central University of Technology, Free State, 2017)Although the implementation of rubrics as teaching-learning and assessment tools has progressively become more visible in all educational settings, including the higher education context, lecturers' bona fide viewpoints ... -
Exploring a new narratological paradigm for the analysis of narrative communication in translated children's literature
(Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2011)Current contributions attempting to draw together translation studies and narratology are based almost exclusively on structuralist narratology, proceeding from the assumption that changes on the micro-level of the text ... -
Exploring Africa’s democratic transitions and economic development policy: South African and Nigerian experiences
(SAAPAM, 2014)This paper contends that the new “Africa Rising Narrative” will net lead to the majority of African citizens attaining prosperity under the current democratic transition. this paper argues that Africa lacks appropriate ... -
Exploring Black Student Teacher Motivation for Community Service Involvement
(AesthetixMS, 2017)Research in South Africa has paid little attention to black student motivation for voluntary community-service engagement. Motivation for community service engagement is probably the most important factor for student ... -
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 ... -
Exploring history teachers' perceptions of outcomes-based assessment in South Africa
(University of Venda, 2014)In an attempt to restructure the unequal South African education system of the "apartheid regime, Curriculum 2005 with an Outcomes–based Education (OBE)" approach was introduced by the ANC government in 1998. This new ... -
Exploring lived experiences of spirituality amongst five Dalcroze teachers
(Sage, 2018)This article presents an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of the lived spiritual experiences of five Dalcroze teachers while teaching Dalcroze Eurhythmics. It responds to a recent expansion of research into ... -
Exploring panarchy and social-ecological resilience: towards understanding water history in precolonial Southern Africa
(The Historical Association of South Africa, 2016)There is a growing corpus of social-ecological thinking in the field of resilience studies.One example is the pioneering work of Gunderson and Holling (2002) on panarchy. The work has had a significant impacton disciplinary ... -
Exploring teacher self–efficacy for inclusive practices in three diverse countries
(Elsevier, 2013)The purpose of this study was to explain teachers' perceived efficacy for teaching in inclusive classrooms by using a sample of 1911 in-service teachers from China, Finland, and South Africa. Bandura's theory of self-efficacy ... -
Exploring the communication relationship between corporate donors and social development NPO recipients
(University of the Free State, 2012)The complexities in the social development setting in South African are clearly evident from unemployment and poverty statistics, low levels of literacy and education and lacking government response to social ills (CASE ... -
Exploring the current application of professional competencies in human resource management in the South African context
(2015)Human research practitioners have an important role to play in the sustainability and competitiveness of organizations. Yet their strategic contribution and the value they add remain unrecognized. The main objective of ... -
Exploring the impact of Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment Programme on the cognitive development of prospective mathematics educators
(2010)In this article the researchers report on the findings obtained from a sequential explanatory mixed method study through testing and narratives in order to determine the extent to which 24 prospective Mathematics educators ... -
Exploring the personality structure in the 11 languages of South Africa
(Wiley, 2012)The present study, part of the development of the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI), explores the implicit personality structure in the 11 official language groups of South Africa by employing a mixed-method ... -
Exploring the Personality Structure in the 11 Languages of South Africa
(Wiley, 2012)The present study, part of the development of the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI), explores the implicit personality structure in the 11 official language groups of South Africa by employing a mixed-method ... -
Exploring the relationship between religious fundamentalism, life satisfaction, and meaning in life
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)This study explored the relationship between life satisfaction, meaning in life, and religious fundamentalism among 420 participants (28.8% male, 88.4% African, 8.4% White) residing in the Gauteng province of South Africa. ... -
Exploring the suitability of Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale for adult use in South-Western Nigeria
(IFE Centre for Psychological Studies (ICPS), 2014)Despite the popularity, simplicity and wide usage of the Rosenberg self-esteem scale (RSES), its reliability and validity among different samples across culture is in doubt. This study was thus conducted to investigate the ... -
Exploring the utilization of funds to support health promotion programs in early learning environmentsments
(Kamla-Raj, 2016)The Department of Basic Education has instituted several measures for improvement in the provision of early education in South Africa. Despite these efforts and resource allocations, health promotion in centers of early ... -
Exploring writing apprehension amongst Afrikaans-speaking first-year students
(AOSIS, 2016)Writing apprehension relates to a reluctance to write or even fear of writing and little research has been done on this phenomenon in the South African context, especially in terms of compulsory academic literacy and ...