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Leadership behaviour preferences of student-athletes: a comparative study of South Africa and India
(Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research (MCSER), 2013)The athlete-coach relationship is a vertical dyadic relationship in which the coach plays a critical leadership role. The direct influence of coaches on their athletes has been widely reported in many studies from various ... -
Leadership's role in effective implementation of school discipline policies
(The Clute Institute, 2014)Discipline is an important aspect of the life of any school. Learning and teaching can only take place effectively in a disciplined environment. In South Africa, discipline policies might not have been effectively implemented ... -
Leerbestuurstelsels teenoor sosialenetwerk–omgewings: die ontwikkeling van n geïntegreerde tegnologiese onderrig–leer–model
(Universiteit van Stellenbosch, 2013)The use of computer - mediated communication (CMC), e.g. e-mail and text-based conferencing, particularly in asynchronous mode, has rapidly increased within higher education. Findings from the educational research literature ... -
Managing conflict at work: a qualitative analysis of municipal sports officers views in Gauteng province, South Africa
(LAM Publications; AJOL; Sabinet, 2013)Conflict is an inevitable part of life and the importance of understanding and managing it is cardinal. The lack of understanding of conflict can affect various areas within an organisation, creating unstable and sometimes ... -
Materialism, status consumption and consumer ethnocentrism amongst black generation Y students in South Africa
(Academic Journals [© 2010 Academic Journals], 2012)The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which black Generation Y students’ exhibit status consumption, materialism and consumer ethnocentrism tendencies, and the relationship between these three constructs. ... -
Mediocracy and the fraud called education: the case of South Africa's curriculum statements in English
(Kamla-Raj, 2014)This paper examines the changes effected in the curricular statements that have guided English Language education in South Africa since 1994. It questions the philosophical, pedagogical and instructional logic that has ... -
Meeting challenges in rural African education:a Zambian case study
(2012)Private initiatives can contribute to the eradication of many of the educational problems of developing countries, specifically in rural Africa. This article explores the crippling education problems of several developing ... -
Methodologies of targeting – renaissance militarism attacking Christianity as 'weakness'
(AOSIS, 2013)Intellectuals in the post-Medieval West, striving for scholarly emancipation, developed methodologies to target so as to free themselves from the dominant Christian, largely Roman Catholic, intellectual tradition. Machiavelli ... -
Mobile technology interaction to e–Commerce in promising of u–Commerce
(Academic Journals [© 2010 Academic Journals], 2013)Mobile technology interaction is gaining increasing acceptance. The need for mobility is a primary driving force behind mobile banking, mobile entertainment and mobile marketing, and is supported by an ever increasing ... -
Municipal sports officers perceptions of performance appraisal and their relationship with satisfaction with the process
(LAM Publications; AJOL; Sabinet, 2013)One of the human resources management functions is the appraisal of employee performance. Given the fact that employees are the most important source of capital advantage to an organisation, the overall aim of performance ... -
Music and dance as learning interventions for children with intellectual disabilities
(2013)Amongst the many disadvantaged groups of people in the world, an important minority are children with intellectual disabilities. Relative to their counterparts without intellectual disabilities, children with intellectual ... -
The nature of experimental and quasi–experimental research in postgraduate education research in South Africa: 1995–2004
(Unisa, 2011)It is widely known that there is a dearth of education research in South Africa which takes as its methodological basis experimentation. The emphasis has been on educators' and learners' experiential understanding in the ... -
An observational study of outdated technology
(Kre publishers, 2012)The use of paper-based approaches is still alarmingly prevalent in corporate environments. The objective of thispaper is to explore paper usage in corporate and higher education institutions by observing the use of traditional ... -
Old Testament Prophecy as Divination: the Case of Isaiah 14:28–32
(Unisa Press/SASNES (South African Society for near Eastern Studies) / Sabinet, 2013)Comparative studies of ancient Near Eastern prophecy in recent years have focussed on the distinction between inductive forms of divination, such as extispicy and astrology, which involve the so-called "scholarly" ... -
Pan–African Parliament and civil society: towards representing the voices of the people
(Unisa, 2011)The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) plays a major role in the democratisation process and the harmonisation of relations with civil society organisations (CSOs) for socio-economic and political development to be realised in ... -
Paradiplozoon ichthyoxanthon n. sp. (Monogenea: Diplozoidae) from Labeobarbus aeneus (Cyprinidae) in the Vaal River, South Africa
(CUP, 2014)A new species, Paradiplozoon ichthyoxanthon (Monogenea: Diplozoidae) is described from the gills of Labeobarbus aeneus (Cyprinidae) in the Vaal Dam and Vaal River Barrage in the Vaal River, South Africa. This species is ... -
Participation in sport and recreation in a poor community : perceived constraints and opportunities : physical activity and health
(AFAHPER-SDLAM PublicationsSabinetLAM PublicationsSabinetAJOL, 2014)Participation in physical activity and sport has many health benefits and contributes to well-being of individuals. In a broader context it could even bring communities together and improve social cohesion, especially in ... -
Participative management in sport: Coaches views on decision making
(LAM Publications; AJOL; Sabinet, 2013)Implementing participative decision making practices has become increasingly popular amongst organisations. Numerous benefits, including increased morale and job satisfaction, have been associated with the effective ...
