Browsing TD: 2012 Volume 8 No 1 by Title
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Academic preparedness of students – an exploratory study
(North-West University, 2012)The high level of student failure, accompanied by an increased drop-out rate, is problematic in higher education. It is especially a concern in programmes with the subjects of Mathematics, Accounting and Science. Over ... -
The application of water poverty mapping in water management
(North-West University, 2012)Water management has been carried out for many centuries wherever there has been a need to provide water to large numbers of people. Complex social norms have developed around water management and competing users have ... -
Editorial comment: the way forward in the era of open access publishing
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The effectiveness of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) as global paradigm shift for poverty eradication in sub-Saharan Africa
(North-West University, 2012)Despite isolated progress there seems to be no clear-cut guideline or solution to the collective eradication of extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. In an attempt to overcome the above reality, the objective of the ... -
Freshlyground and the possibilities of new identities in post-apartheid South Africa
(North-West University, 2012)Popular music and indeed popular art forms struggle for critical attention in the academy (Larkin, 1992). Relegated to a focus on performance, or to peripheral sub-disciplines such as cultural studies, the study of popular ... -
How to eat: vegetarianism, religion and law
(North-West University, 2012)The approach of Critical Legal Studies that law is a cultural artefact that can be criticised is taken as point of departure in this paper. This insight is applied to food as a very important cultural artefact that ... -
Interactive simulations for promoting transdisciplinary understanding: a case study of the Western Cape fisheries, South Africa
(North-West University, 2012)Simulations have proven beneficial in enabling participants from various backgrounds to meaningfully engage in learning from experience. The aim of this paper is to investigate how interactive simulations can play a role ... -
Key identifiers and spelling conventions in MXit-lingo as found in conversations with Dr Math
(North-West University, 2012)Different human languages look different from other human languages. To use a term from the computer industry, each human language has its own “look and feel”. European English speakers can easily recognise a phrase such ... -
Learning about the world: developing higher order thinking in music education
(North-West University, 2012)Innovative thinking is an innate human capacity geared towards adaptation and survival. Theories of education accordingly aim at developing teaching-learning strategies that promote creative, problem-solving reasoning ... -
A transdisciplinary approach to understanding the causes of wicked problems such as the violent conflict in Rwanda
(North-West University, 2012)The paper is presented against a background of many wicked problems that confront us in the world today such as violent crime, conflict that emanates from political power seeking, contests for scarce resources, the ... -
The use of blogs for political campaigning in a developing country context: the case of South Africa
(North-West University, 2012)All over the world, the use of the digital platform for political campaigning is growing. This development has the potential to empower the electorate to engage in political debate. This exploratory research aims at ...
