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Enabling white, Afrikaans–speaking adolescents toward post–divorce resilience: implications for educators
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2010)
Using rich qualitative data, we describe the ecosystemically-embedded protective antecedents that enabled 10 white, Afrikaans-speaking adolescents from divorced families towards resilience. The description both confirms ...
Teacher pathways to resilience: interpretations of teacher adjustment to HIV/AIDS-related challenges
(Springer, 2013)
Resilience (or the capacity to adjust well to significant risk) is conceptualized as a dynamic, reciprocal transaction that occurs between people and their social ecologies. An outcome of resilience relies on a person, who ...
Audio narration: re–narrativising film
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)
Audiovisual texts rely on their polysemiotic nature to create audiovisual narrative. For audiences who do not have access to any one of the semiotic codes, the very essence of the narrative is compromised. The nature of ...
A narratological perspective on Douglas Livingstone's A littoral zone (1991)
(AOSIS, 2010)
This article explores aspects of the contemporary South African poet Douglas Livingstone's "A littoral zone" (1991) from a narratological point of view, leaning largely on Peter Hühn's narratological concept of the event ...
Existential attitudes and Eastern European adolescents' problem and health behaviors: highlighting the role of the search for meaning in life
(Springer Verlag, 2012)
Although the role of existential attitudes in adolescent health-related behavior has received increased attention recently, historically it has been under investigated in the field. The present study focuses on existential ...
Learners’ encounter with archaeological fieldwork: A public participation archaeology account of the East Fort Archaeological Project
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)
Public Archaeology as a concept is generally defined as civic involvement during the various public phases of Cultural Resources Management. The practice of archaeology in South Africa seldom extends towards public ...
Complexity in word–formation processes in New Varieties of South African English
(Taylor & Francis/Routledge/NISC, 2010)
The research question posed in the article is whether South African English (SAE) has reached Phase four of Schneider's (2007) Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes. This phase is characterised by early indications of ...
"My lyf was my slagspreuk"; verset en die politiek van die liggaam in 30 Nagte in Amsterdam van Etienne van Heerden
(Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2010)
In 30 Nights in Amsterdam, the two main characters, Henk de Melker and his aunt Susan de Melker, migrate (temporarily) to Amsterdam. Although Henk ostensibly goes to Amsterdam to claim an inheritance, it is soon apparent ...
Taalverskuiwing en taalhandhawing in die Afrikaanse gemeenskap: tendense en toekomsperspektiewe
(LitNet, 2011)
Navorsing deur Schlemmer (2010) toon aan dat taalverskuiwing na Engels in ’n redelik groot mate by bruin Afrikaanssprekendes en in ’n geringer mate by wit Afrikaanssprekendes plaasvind. Ook is daar ’n groot toename in ...