An anthropological investigation into the challenges that affect Xhosa traditional circumcision: a case of Mngqesha Village, Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality
- Authors: Qegu, Mzukisi
- Date: 2018-06
- Subjects: Circumcision , Xhosa (African people)
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/26683 , vital:65851
- Description: The purpose of this study is to investigate the challenges that affect Xhosa traditional circumcision in Mngqesha village. Mngqesha village is situated in Dimbaza, Eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. The study population employed random and purposive sampling to draw a representative sample of 25 research informants traditional leaders, traditional surgeons, traditional nurses, Initiates, elders of the community and Department of Health officials, each group was represented by five research informants from the population of this study. This study employed a mixed research approach. Questionnaires were distributed amongst research informants for quantitative purposes, and interviews were conducted for qualitative purposes, among the selected representative sample. Qualitative data was analyzed using thematic analysis and was used to substantiate quantitative findings. The findings of this study prolonged on how injuries, diseases and high death rates of initiates affect Xhosa Traditional Circumcision in Mngqesha village. The findings of this study divulge that carelessness amongst parents of initiates, dehydration, physical abuse and lack of proper screening of initiates have a tremendous contribution to injuries, diseases and high death rates of initiates in Mngqesha villages. , Thesis (MSoc) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2018
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- Date Issued: 2018-06
- Authors: Qegu, Mzukisi
- Date: 2018-06
- Subjects: Circumcision , Xhosa (African people)
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/26683 , vital:65851
- Description: The purpose of this study is to investigate the challenges that affect Xhosa traditional circumcision in Mngqesha village. Mngqesha village is situated in Dimbaza, Eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. The study population employed random and purposive sampling to draw a representative sample of 25 research informants traditional leaders, traditional surgeons, traditional nurses, Initiates, elders of the community and Department of Health officials, each group was represented by five research informants from the population of this study. This study employed a mixed research approach. Questionnaires were distributed amongst research informants for quantitative purposes, and interviews were conducted for qualitative purposes, among the selected representative sample. Qualitative data was analyzed using thematic analysis and was used to substantiate quantitative findings. The findings of this study prolonged on how injuries, diseases and high death rates of initiates affect Xhosa Traditional Circumcision in Mngqesha village. The findings of this study divulge that carelessness amongst parents of initiates, dehydration, physical abuse and lack of proper screening of initiates have a tremendous contribution to injuries, diseases and high death rates of initiates in Mngqesha villages. , Thesis (MSoc) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2018
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Assessment of the role of continuing professional development on the transformation of practice: a case study of the Advanced Diploma in District Health Management and Leadership curriculum
- Authors: Ndawule, Luvuyo
- Date: 2018-06
- Subjects: Continuing education , Teachers -- Training of -- South Africa , Active learning
- Language: English
- Type: Doctoral theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/26672 , vital:65848
- Description: This study is located in the field of education, within the domain of Continuing Professional Development CPD and curriculum. The study sought to assess the role of CPD in the transformation of health practice. The media’s complaints about poor service delivery within spheres of government, from local up to national level, triggered interest in a study of this nature. Since the Department of Health falls amongst the essential services, research on current public healthcare with the intention of transforming its practice was seen as imperative. An Advanced Diploma in District Health Management and Leadership ADDHM & L offered by Health Sciences at the University of Fort was used as a case. The healthcare practitioners who attended the stated programme were studied as a second case. The setting is in the public health care centres in the Department of Health within the Amathole region and Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality. An interpretive paradigm was used to ordain the study, the three sets of data were collected from various categories of participants such as graduates of the ADDHM & L programme, their workplace supervisors, as well as the facilitators of the programme. The last set of data was collected from the ADDHM & L documents. Interviews and questionnaires were used as data collection tools and thematic analysis was used for data analysis. The findings revealed that curriculum development and design has a strong bearing on formal continuing professional development programmes. For such programmes to be able to transform practice, the curriculum pedagogies should be designed and developed in such a way that the learning taking place is authentic in nature. It is this type of learning that will influence reflective practice and translation of knowledge. The findings also revealed that institutions of higher learning do play a crucial role in closing the gap that exists between theory and practice through designing programmes that are pedagogically aligned towards authentic learning. The learning instructions, the experiences, the expectations of the learner, the assessment forms that influence the nature of tasks and activities given by facilitators can either enable or hinder the ability to transform practice. , Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Education, 2018
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- Date Issued: 2018-06
- Authors: Ndawule, Luvuyo
- Date: 2018-06
- Subjects: Continuing education , Teachers -- Training of -- South Africa , Active learning
- Language: English
- Type: Doctoral theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/26672 , vital:65848
- Description: This study is located in the field of education, within the domain of Continuing Professional Development CPD and curriculum. The study sought to assess the role of CPD in the transformation of health practice. The media’s complaints about poor service delivery within spheres of government, from local up to national level, triggered interest in a study of this nature. Since the Department of Health falls amongst the essential services, research on current public healthcare with the intention of transforming its practice was seen as imperative. An Advanced Diploma in District Health Management and Leadership ADDHM & L offered by Health Sciences at the University of Fort was used as a case. The healthcare practitioners who attended the stated programme were studied as a second case. The setting is in the public health care centres in the Department of Health within the Amathole region and Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality. An interpretive paradigm was used to ordain the study, the three sets of data were collected from various categories of participants such as graduates of the ADDHM & L programme, their workplace supervisors, as well as the facilitators of the programme. The last set of data was collected from the ADDHM & L documents. Interviews and questionnaires were used as data collection tools and thematic analysis was used for data analysis. The findings revealed that curriculum development and design has a strong bearing on formal continuing professional development programmes. For such programmes to be able to transform practice, the curriculum pedagogies should be designed and developed in such a way that the learning taking place is authentic in nature. It is this type of learning that will influence reflective practice and translation of knowledge. The findings also revealed that institutions of higher learning do play a crucial role in closing the gap that exists between theory and practice through designing programmes that are pedagogically aligned towards authentic learning. The learning instructions, the experiences, the expectations of the learner, the assessment forms that influence the nature of tasks and activities given by facilitators can either enable or hinder the ability to transform practice. , Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Education, 2018
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- Date Issued: 2018-06
The influence of perceived entrepreneurial competencies and intentions on the willingness of dirty workers to become entrepreneurs
- Shava, Herring https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2094-9585
- Authors: Shava, Herring https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2094-9585
- Date: 2018-06
- Subjects: Entrepreneurship , Businesspeople , Work -- Psychological aspects
- Language: English
- Type: Doctoral theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/29076 , vital:76601
- Description: This study was undertaken primarily to investigate the influence of entrepreneurial competencies and intentions on willingness to become an entrepreneur for employees involved in dirty work, classified to be physical. Extant literature indicated that owing to the stigma attached to the nature of dirty work, people involved therein find it difficult to create a positive social identity as they are marginalised and considered people of low status. As a result of this stigma, employees involved in dirty work could turn to entrepreneurship, a boundaryless career with a probability of gaining hefty economic rewards in return. Economic rewards comprise, for example, money that is used by individuals to turn around their poor backgrounds or low status into respected figures as well as role models in their societies. However, for employees to be willing to demonstrate entrepreneurial activities, it was argued that they should possess high levels of entrepreneurial competencies. The same argument was advanced with regard to entrepreneurial intentions. It was argued that for employees involved in dirty to be willing to consider entrepreneurship as a career choice, they should possess a high score for entrepreneurial intentions. The study was undertaken in selected towns in the Eastern Cape Province. Primary data was collected from 348 employees involved in dirty work through a self-administered questionnaire. Primary data, quantitative in nature, was analysed through factor analysis, Pearson correlation and regression analysis to arrive at meaningful findings. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 24 was used. The study found that entrepreneurial competencies have a positive significant influence on willingness to become an entrepreneur. This was because employees involved in dirty work had a relatively high score with regard to entrepreneurial competencies. It was also observed that entrepreneurial intentions of employees involved in dirty work had no significant influence on their willingness to become entrepreneurs. This could have been caused by the fact that employees involved in dirty work had an entrepreneurial intent score slightly above average (not high enough). In other words, entrepreneurial competencies better predict willingness to become an entrepreneur for employees involved in dirty work compared to entrepreneurial intentions, which had no unique contribution towards their willingness to becoming entrepreneurs. The majority of South Africans have attempted to pursue entrepreneurship as a career without meaningful success as is evident in the high failure rate of SMEs currently pegged between 60 and 80percent depending on the province. It is not known to what extent employees involved in dirty work are part of these entrepreneurship start-up attempts. In light of the study’s findings, there is need to evaluate the quality of entrepreneurial competencies of employees involved in dirty work including other aspiring entrepreneurs before they can be encouraged to start their own initiatives. The revised or modified EPAI tool comes in handy in making individuals in South Africa to be aware of their entrepreneurial competency levels. This will ensure that people who are recruited for formal and informal entrepreneurship courses and training programmes in various communities are the intended recipients of these programmes leading to effective utilisation of scarce resources. More importantly, this will be an essential step towards providing the society with entrepreneurs and self-employers who will contribute to overall building of the economy through employment creation and boosting the economic situation. Given the average entrepreneurial intent score observed, there is a need to come up with viable programmes that will stimulate entrepreneurial intentions for employees involved in dirty work to raise them beyond the average level. One of the relevant programmes for the task of raising entrepreneurial intentions could be entrepreneurial education, particularly short courses where learning by doing will constitute the greater part of the curriculum (practical activities). , Thesis (PhD (Industrial Psychology)) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2018
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- Date Issued: 2018-06
- Authors: Shava, Herring https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2094-9585
- Date: 2018-06
- Subjects: Entrepreneurship , Businesspeople , Work -- Psychological aspects
- Language: English
- Type: Doctoral theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/29076 , vital:76601
- Description: This study was undertaken primarily to investigate the influence of entrepreneurial competencies and intentions on willingness to become an entrepreneur for employees involved in dirty work, classified to be physical. Extant literature indicated that owing to the stigma attached to the nature of dirty work, people involved therein find it difficult to create a positive social identity as they are marginalised and considered people of low status. As a result of this stigma, employees involved in dirty work could turn to entrepreneurship, a boundaryless career with a probability of gaining hefty economic rewards in return. Economic rewards comprise, for example, money that is used by individuals to turn around their poor backgrounds or low status into respected figures as well as role models in their societies. However, for employees to be willing to demonstrate entrepreneurial activities, it was argued that they should possess high levels of entrepreneurial competencies. The same argument was advanced with regard to entrepreneurial intentions. It was argued that for employees involved in dirty to be willing to consider entrepreneurship as a career choice, they should possess a high score for entrepreneurial intentions. The study was undertaken in selected towns in the Eastern Cape Province. Primary data was collected from 348 employees involved in dirty work through a self-administered questionnaire. Primary data, quantitative in nature, was analysed through factor analysis, Pearson correlation and regression analysis to arrive at meaningful findings. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 24 was used. The study found that entrepreneurial competencies have a positive significant influence on willingness to become an entrepreneur. This was because employees involved in dirty work had a relatively high score with regard to entrepreneurial competencies. It was also observed that entrepreneurial intentions of employees involved in dirty work had no significant influence on their willingness to become entrepreneurs. This could have been caused by the fact that employees involved in dirty work had an entrepreneurial intent score slightly above average (not high enough). In other words, entrepreneurial competencies better predict willingness to become an entrepreneur for employees involved in dirty work compared to entrepreneurial intentions, which had no unique contribution towards their willingness to becoming entrepreneurs. The majority of South Africans have attempted to pursue entrepreneurship as a career without meaningful success as is evident in the high failure rate of SMEs currently pegged between 60 and 80percent depending on the province. It is not known to what extent employees involved in dirty work are part of these entrepreneurship start-up attempts. In light of the study’s findings, there is need to evaluate the quality of entrepreneurial competencies of employees involved in dirty work including other aspiring entrepreneurs before they can be encouraged to start their own initiatives. The revised or modified EPAI tool comes in handy in making individuals in South Africa to be aware of their entrepreneurial competency levels. This will ensure that people who are recruited for formal and informal entrepreneurship courses and training programmes in various communities are the intended recipients of these programmes leading to effective utilisation of scarce resources. More importantly, this will be an essential step towards providing the society with entrepreneurs and self-employers who will contribute to overall building of the economy through employment creation and boosting the economic situation. Given the average entrepreneurial intent score observed, there is a need to come up with viable programmes that will stimulate entrepreneurial intentions for employees involved in dirty work to raise them beyond the average level. One of the relevant programmes for the task of raising entrepreneurial intentions could be entrepreneurial education, particularly short courses where learning by doing will constitute the greater part of the curriculum (practical activities). , Thesis (PhD (Industrial Psychology)) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2018
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- Date Issued: 2018-06
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