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Teaching Without Technology

- Machanick, Philip

Authors: Machanick, Philip
Date: 2014
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/439238 , vital:73558 , https://homes.cs.ru.ac.za/philip/Publications/_SACLA/teachWOtech-2014.pdf
Description: Technology is touted as a solution to problems in education. But is it? I report here on experiences with dropping use of slides in lectures and returning to working on the board. The apparent result is more interactive, engaged classes. Unfortunately there are too many other variables to make the experiences here definitive. The purpose of this paper is to provoke discussion on whether technology is overused in teaching when the goals of improving student engagement and general effectiveness of learning can be met many ways. Technology is not necessarily bad, but making it the starting point risks locking out nontechnological options.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Why care about sharing?: Shared phones and shared networks in rural areas: African trends

- Dalvit, Lorenzo

Authors: Dalvit, Lorenzo
Date: 2014
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158639 , vital:40217 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC159490
Description: Tomi Ahonen, credited with introducing the concept of mobile as the seventh mass media, notes that the arrival of the mobile phone was a God-send for advertisers, as it is the only mass medium where the audience can be accurately identified. Conversely, the pervasiveness of location-aware, multi-sensor, permanently on and constantly connected devices raised privacy concerns about carrying "little brother" in your pocket at all times. One of the distinctive characteristics of mobile phones, setting them apart from all previous media, is the fact that they are personal devices: 60% of married users would not let their spouse access their mobile phone and, not surprisingly, teenagers are even less inclined to let their family members have a look at their device. Things have not always been so. In South Africa, research conducted among university students revealed that for many a hand-me-down phone the size of a brick and shared with siblings was their first mobile device.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Open debate: ephemeral democracies: interrogating commonality in South Africa

- Makhubu, Nomusa

Authors: Makhubu, Nomusa
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147626 , vital:38655 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/09528822.2013.796200
Description: South Africa's Post-Apartheid era is characterized by the rhetoric of ‘unity in diversity’. However, numerous artist-led public interventions disclose alienating socio-economic conditions. Neoliberal reforms in the context of prevailing structural designs of Apartheid in South Africa weaken the democratization process, making it figurative rather than tangible and participatory. There is a pervasive perception that centres of power within the arts in South Africa are located in institutions of white proprietorship. As a result, young artists create independent establishments where they can have some control over cultural production and dissemination. This article debates the different strategies that are used by young practising artists to confront contemporary challenges in Post-Apartheid South Africa. One of these strategies promotes integration and deracialization through persistent engagement with predominantly white institutions in order to generate a sense of common purpose while the other opts for the power of provocative racialized but marginalized cultural movements.
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Date Issued: 2013

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Rhino poaching: supply and demand uncertain

- Collins, Alan, Fraser, Gavin C G, Snowball, Jeanette D

Authors: Collins, Alan , Fraser, Gavin C G , Snowball, Jeanette D
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70476 , vital:29665 , https://doi.org/10.1126/science.340.6137.1167-a
Description: IN THEIR POLICY FORUM “LEGAL TRADE OF AFRICA’S RHINO HORNS” (1 MARCH, P. 1038), D. Biggs et al. point out that the trade ban on rhino horn has not been successful in reducing rhino poaching, which reached a record high of 668 in 2012. They argue that trade bans support illegal organizations, whereas a regulated legal market could reduce poaching effort and provide much-needed income for conservation. In making their case, Biggs et al. overlook a few important points.
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Date Issued: 2013

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Sexy girls, heroes and funny losers: gender representations in children's TV around the world edited by Maya Gotz and Dafna Lemish

- Boshoff, Priscilla A

Authors: Boshoff, Priscilla A
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143505 , vital:38252 , DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2013.839116
Description: Gotz and Lemish have brought together in this volume a range of research which derives from the project they initiated in 2007 from the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI). Researchers in 24 countries around the world participated in this unique project, and the results, discussed at the 2008 and 2010 Prix Jeunesse International, prompted hopes that the producers of children's television would be persuaded to pay more concerted attention to issues of gender in their programming. Whether or not such a utopian outcome might be expected from this initiative is open to future question. For our immediate purposes however, the value of this collection is that it draws together in one volume some of the results from both the original quantitative survey and the subsequent qualitative analyses that examined specific themes emerging from the data.
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Date Issued: 2013

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The art of change: perspectives on transformation in South Africa

- Makhubu, Nomusa, Simbao, Ruth K

Authors: Makhubu, Nomusa , Simbao, Ruth K
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147642 , vital:38657 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/09528822.2013.798180
Description: There have been almost two decades of democracy in South Africa, yet rising anger and violent discontent lay bare continuing inequity. It is timely to ask the question: can South Africans really be frank about how meaningful the transformation from oppressive political and economic structures has been? Does the inclination towards neo-liberalism and capitalism in South Africa’s post-Apartheid democracy allow real change? Where economic inequality and spatial divisions still persist and, indeed, are actively reproduced by current market forces, can South Africans really create inclusive and integrative spaces? The Art of Change: Perspectives on Transformation in South Africa confronts some of these issues, reopening debates and encouraging reflection on cultural dynamics in South Africa during the past two decades.
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Date Issued: 2013

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The final instar exuvium of Pycna semiclara Germar, 1834 (Hemiptera Cicadidae)

- Midgley, John M, Bouwer, Nicolette, Villet, Martin H

Authors: Midgley, John M , Bouwer, Nicolette , Villet, Martin H
Date: 2013
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/440695 , vital:73804 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC136752
Description: Exuviae of the cicada Pycna semiclara were found next to freshly eclosed adults. The exuvium of Pycna Semiclara is described and illustrated for the first time and a key is presented to distinguish the exuvium of this species from those of Platypleura stridula and Platypleura capensis, the only other species of cicadas from southern Africa for which exuviae have been described.
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Date Issued: 2013

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Veracity, transparency and inclusivity plus engagement and empowerment: regulations, ethics, accountability

- Dugmore, Harry, Smith, Jade

Authors: Dugmore, Harry , Smith, Jade
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158564 , vital:40207 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141577
Description: As a centre with a brief to encourage "more and better" health journalism in South Africa, we've had to think hard about definitional issues and about balancing subjective and objective gauges of quality. We've developed an initial appraisal of health journalism, locally and internationally, and we've created a normative framework that we hope will enable journalists and educators to have better discussions about what is meant by quality in health journalism. This framework will hopefully inform what kind of journalism education - degrees, short courses, topic guides, symposia - might promote higher levels of quality in reporting on medical science.
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Date Issued: 2013

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Editorial : methodology, context and quality

- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila

Authors: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
Date: 2012/2013
Language: English
Type: article , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59670 , vital:27636 , https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/122254
Description: From Introduction: The present edition of the journal is also interesting in that three different perspectives stand out, namely methodology, context and quality, perspectives which permeate the journal papers in various ways. The journal opens with a methodology think piece by Price. In this think piece, she challenges us to avoid ‘methodolatry’ in an environmental education context, noting that this requires us to resist hegemonic methodological assumptions – she suggests that positivism, post-structuralism and participatory methodology may all have such ‘hegemonic status’ and calls on us to critically and reflexively challenge the assumptions that inform and shape our methodologies and methodological commitments. She explains how she herself navigated this problem via the use of critical realist research approaches. The paper can therefore serve as a useful reflexive tool for authors who have contributed to the journal to review their methodological assumptions and practices and to ‘think deeply’ about the role of methodology in the research that we undertake.
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Date Issued: 2012/2013

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