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Social ecosystem for skills research inclusivity, relationality and informality

- Metelerkamp, Luke, Monk, David

  • Authors: Metelerkamp, Luke , Monk, David
  • Date: 2023
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434871 , vital:73112 , ISBN 978-1529224634 , https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/transitioning-vocational-education-and-training-in-africa
  • Description: Eighty per cent of Africans work in the informal economy. In this chapter, we consider the highly informal, unregulated and often marginalized contexts that form the majority experience of living, working and learning. Situating the praxis of horizontal learning within these very normal contexts of informality demands renewed analysis into the questions of how horizontal learning is facilitated, by whom, with what resources, and why. Following on from Chapter 4, we develop our approach to social ecosystems further through two empirical case studies offering distinct lenses on to the informal sector. In Gulu, we consider the current dynamics of learning and inclusion among informal traders at a local market and in a set of food and clothing initiatives; in Alice, we reflect on an intentional effort on behalf of established, formal institutions to explore new approaches to teaching and learning through support of expansive informal learning in the context of food growing. While our focus across the book is on the range of labour markets and livelihood opportunities, it is appropriate to start our empirical chapters by focusing on the labour market of the majority.
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  • Date Issued: 2023

“A Sort of Arcadian Country”: Plant-Life in Some Early South African Travelogues

- Wylie, Dan

  • Authors: Wylie, Dan
  • Date: 2023
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458061 , vital:75713 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-iseaeng_v50_n1_a1
  • Description: Various branches of current ecocriticism are exploring ways of dismantling or at least diminishing dominant anthropocentric ways of evaluating the relationships among humans, the non-human world, and the literary imagination. Critical Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies, and multispecies ecocriticism endeavour to re-evaluate the roles, even agency, of non-human life, as represented in literary works. This article unpacks the depiction of plants in three early South African travelogues (1795–1836), illuminating the sources of some enduring assumptions and iconic imageries in our relations with the natural world.
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  • Date Issued: 2023

A multinational study of authors’ perceptions of and practical approaches to writing geography textbooks:

- Lee, Jongwon, Catling, Simon, Kidman, Gillian, Bednarz, Robert, Krause, Uwe, Martija, Andoni A, Ohnishi, Koji, Wilmot, P Dianne, Zecha, Stefane

  • Authors: Lee, Jongwon , Catling, Simon , Kidman, Gillian , Bednarz, Robert , Krause, Uwe , Martija, Andoni A , Ohnishi, Koji , Wilmot, P Dianne , Zecha, Stefane
  • Date: 2020
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158269 , vital:40168 , https://doi.org/10.1080/10382046.2020.1743931
  • Description: Like all school textbooks, geography textbooks are authored. Almost all textbook research in and beyond geography has neglected their authors. This questionnaire-based multinational research project investigated the perceptions of 71 primary and secondary school geography textbook authors from seven countries in five continents. Though not intended as a definitive study, the findings identified several values and areas of expertise which many textbook authors in different countries held to be important for their work.
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  • Date Issued: 2020

A wake-up call: Equity, inequality and Covid-19 emergency remote teaching and learning

- Czerniewicz, Laura, Agherdien, Najma, Badenhorst, Johan, Belluigi, Dina, Chambers, Tracey, Chili, Muntuwenkosi, De Villiers, Magriet, Felix, Alan, Gachago, Daniela, Gokhale, Craig, Ivala, Eunice, Kramm, Neil, Madiba, Matete, Mistri, Gitanjali, Mgqwashu, Emmanuel, Pallitt, Nicola, Prinsloo, Paul, Solomon, Kelly, Strydom, Sonja, Swanepoel, Mike, Waghid, Faiq, Wissing, Gerrit

Decolonisation of nature in towns and cities of South Africa:

- Cocks, Michelle L, Shackleton, Charlie M, Walsh, Lindsey S, Haynes, Duncan, Manyani, Amanda, Radebe, Dennis

  • Authors: Cocks, Michelle L , Shackleton, Charlie M , Walsh, Lindsey S , Haynes, Duncan , Manyani, Amanda , Radebe, Dennis
  • Date: 2020
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175720 , vital:42618 , ISBN 9781000215182
  • Description: Ways of conceptualising the world around us and being in this world are defined by an ontological understanding. Within a Eurocentric ideological understanding, nature is positioned to be opposite to culture, ie, nature is considered as “other” of which humans are not a part. Modernity is perceived as the antithesis of nature as processes of production, metabolism and expansion of modern cities represent attempts to tame and control nature. In turn, cities have become viewed as agents of development and change, promoting ideals of progress, thinking and innovation (Jayne 2005). Eurocentric ideals are framed as the forerunners of these processes and have come to influence international policies, global governance, alliances and networks which have in turn informed the design and governance of cities and influenced all aspects of urban liveability (Bouteligier 2011), including how urban natures are defined and constructed and the wellbeing benefits derived from them.
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  • Date Issued: 2020

The In Silico Prediction of hotspot residues that contribute to the structural stability of subunit interfaces of a Picornavirus Capsid:

- Upfold, Nicole, Ross, Caroline J, Tastan Bishop, Özlem, Knox, Caroline M

  • Authors: Upfold, Nicole , Ross, Caroline J , Tastan Bishop, Özlem , Knox, Caroline M
  • Date: 2020
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149970 , vital:38919 , https://doi.org/10.3390/v12040387
  • Description: The assembly of picornavirus capsids proceeds through the stepwise oligomerization of capsid protein subunits and depends on interactions between critical residues known as hotspots. Few studies have described the identification of hotspot residues at the protein subunit interfaces of the picornavirus capsid, some of which could represent novel drug targets. Using a combination of accessible web servers for hotspot prediction, we performed a comprehensive bioinformatic analysis of the hotspot residues at the intraprotomer, interprotomer and interpentamer interfaces of the Theiler’s murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) capsid.
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  • Date Issued: 2020

“Needs must”: Critical reflections on the implications of the Covid19 “pivot online” for equity in higher education

- Belluigi, Dina, Czerniewicz, Laura, Khoo, S, Algers, A, Buckley, L A, Prinsloo, Paul, Mgqwashu, Emmanuel, Camps, C, Brink, C, Marx, R, Wissing, Gerrit, Pallitt, Nicola

  • Authors: Belluigi, Dina , Czerniewicz, Laura , Khoo, S , Algers, A , Buckley, L A , Prinsloo, Paul , Mgqwashu, Emmanuel , Camps, C , Brink, C , Marx, R , Wissing, Gerrit , Pallitt, Nicola
  • Date: 2020
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/439464 , vital:73599 , https://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/reflections-on-covid19/needs-must
  • Description: Higher education institutions (HEIs) across the globe have turned to online technologies in a bid to address the unprecedented disruption to their educational function, created by physical restrictions implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. Educators, learning professionals, administrators, managers-all have had to muster the courage and de-termination to salvage what their infrastructure and means have al-lowed. A certain shift in mind-set has occurred. Over-simplified and over-generalised perhaps, but a clear directive was given that ‘this has to be done online’, in consequence of which the stance changed from ‘this can’t be done online’ to ‘how can this be done online?’ This was the watershed moment. Even the fiercest opponents of anything tech-nology have been engaging in the shift to online.
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  • Date Issued: 2020

Comparing sequence and structure of falcipains and human homologs at prodomain and catalytic active site for malarial peptide based inhibitor design:

- Musyoka, Thommas M, Njuguna, Joyce N, Tastan Bishop, Özlem

  • Authors: Musyoka, Thommas M , Njuguna, Joyce N , Tastan Bishop, Özlem
  • Date: 2019
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162962 , vital:41000 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1186/s12936-019-2790-2
  • Description: Falcipains are major cysteine proteases of Plasmodium falciparum involved in haemoglobin degradation and remain attractive anti-malarial drug targets. Several inhibitors against these proteases have been identified, yet none of them has been approved for malaria treatment. Other Plasmodium species also possess highly homologous proteins to falcipains. For selective therapeutic targeting, identification of sequence and structure differences with homologous human cathepsins is necessary. The substrate processing activity of these proteins is tightly controlled via a prodomain segment occluding the active site which is chopped under low pH conditions exposing the catalytic site. Current work characterizes these proteases to identify residues mediating the prodomain regulatory function for the design of peptide based anti-malarial inhibitors.
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  • Date Issued: 2019

Prime time geographies: dancehall performance, visual communication and the philosophy of ‘Boundarylessness'

- Stanley Niaah, Sonjah

  • Authors: Stanley Niaah, Sonjah
  • Date: 2019
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145930 , vital:38479 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/00086495.2019.1565218
  • Description: What is Dancehall, and how does it employ visual technologies? Dancehall is not just a musical genre. It is Jamaica’s premier popular street theatre, a celebration of the entire spectrum of life from birth to death, expressed at events that combine dance and music, where consenting adults leave their troubles behind just for a moment to revel in the deep and old rhythmic structures that transport them into scape beyond the urban, beyond the inner city, into spaces of fulfilment.
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  • Date Issued: 2019

Protection of internally displaced persons in Kenya under the Prevention, Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons and Affected Communities Act of 2012: an appraisal

- Juma, Laurence

  • Authors: Juma, Laurence
  • Date: 2018
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/126122 , vital:35851 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-107c9cba58
  • Description: This article discusses Kenya’s Prevention, Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons and Affected Communities Act of 2012, which is among the very few national legislations globally that addresses the plight of internally displaced persons. While it records the momentous achievement in creating a viable and legally enforceable legislative framework for the protection of IDPs, the article highlights some of the areas that could be improved for the Act to realise its promise. It notes for example the inchoate manner in which institutions are created and the lack of resources. The article while isolating these challenges also suggests numerous ways in which such challenges can be overcome. It underscores the need for harmonised legal regimes, improvement of data collection and proper monitoring programmes, all which can be achieved and strengthened by a supportive political establishment as well as strategic amendments to various provisions of the Act.
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  • Date Issued: 2018

Rhodes University 2018 Graduation Ceremony: 1820 Settlers' National Monument, Saturday, 7 April at 09:30

- Rhodes University

  • Authors: Rhodes University
  • Date: 2018
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/64624 , vital:28566 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1inTS4jwWE , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPiJiLEQhsE , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kiZBy3D9SM , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVj1DRaA4uw , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvRxNwFo-o
  • Description: Rhodes University 2018 Graduation Programme, 7 April at 09:30: Bachelor’s: Diploma in Fine Art, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Art. Honours: Bachelor of Social Science Honours. Master’s: Master of Fine Art, Master of Social Science. Doctorate: PhD in Humanities.
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  • Date Issued: 2018

Environmental and social recovery asymmetries to large-scale disturbances in small island communities

- Aswani, Shankar, Van Putten, Ingrid, Miñarro, Sara

  • Authors: Aswani, Shankar , Van Putten, Ingrid , Miñarro, Sara
  • Date: 2017
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67325 , vital:29073 , https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2685-2
  • Description: publisher version , People’s livelihoods in tropical small-island developing states are greatly dependent on marine ecosystem services. Yet services such as fisheries and coastal buffering are being degraded at an alarming rate, thus making people increasing vulnerable to protracted and sudden environmental changes. In the context of the occurrences of extreme events such as earthquakes and tsunamis, it is vital to uncover the processes that make people in these island states resilient, or not, to environmental disruptions. This paper compares people’s perceptions of social and environmental impacts after an extreme event in the Western Solomon Islands (11 different villages on 8 different islands) to better understand how knowledge systems influence the coupling of human and natural systems. We examine the factors that contributed to perceptions of respective recovery in the environmental versus the social domains across communities with different traditional governance and modernization characteristics in a tsunami impact gradient. First, we separately assessed, at the community and individual level, the potential determinants of perceived recovery in the environmental and social domains. At the community level, the average values of the perceived environmental and social recovery were calculated for each community (1 year after the tsunami), and at the individual level, normally distributed environmental and social recovery variables (based on the difference in perceptions immediately and 1 year after the tsunami) were used as dependent variables in two General Linear Models. Results suggest that environmental and social resilience are not always coupled correspondingly and, less unexpectedly, that asymmetries during recovery can occur as a result of the underlying social and ecological context and existing adaptive capacity. More generally, the study shows how by evaluating post-disturbance perceptional data in tsunami-affected communities, we can better understand how subjective perceptions of change can affect the (de)-coupling of human and natural systems.
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  • Date Issued: 2017

Responsive Curriculum Design and Implementation: Contextualising and Recontextualising Content in the Case of Climate Change EducationTraining for Southern African Transfrontier Conservation Area Practitioners

- Mukute, Mutizwa, Pesanayi, Tichaona

  • Authors: Mukute, Mutizwa , Pesanayi, Tichaona
  • Date: 2017
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , bulletin
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436427 , vital:73271 , ISBN bulletin , https://www.saqa.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SAQA-Bulletin-2017-1.pdf#page=37
  • Description: This paper discusses how the climate change education/training needs of Park Managers, Ecologists, and Community Development Officers in Southern African Development Community (SADC) Transfrontier Conser-vation Areas (TFCAs) were established through contextual profiling. It subsequently analyses how a curriculum that was designed in response to a contextual profiling process was recontextualised during implementa-tion by the SADC Regional Environmental Education Programme (REEP), with support from the German Federal Enterprise for International Coop-eration (GIZ). The paper’s purpose is to trace the trajectory of contextual-ised curriculum development and implementation with a view to identify-ing how the twin concepts of contextual profiling and recontextualisation were utilised and lessons were learned. The paper has potential value for educators/ trainers interested in increasing the relevance of protected area workplace learning and its congruence to learners’ realities. It also has relevance for learning pathways in the environment and sustaninable development arena and elsewhere.
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  • Date Issued: 2017

Rhodes University Library Report for the period 2015-2016 : maintaining the scholarly heartbeat in a time of disruption

- Satgoor, Ujala

  • Authors: Satgoor, Ujala
  • Date: 2017
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/54313 , vital:26455
  • Description: Disruption has been one of the key drivers for the reshaping of academic libraries over the years. New technologies; high cost of information resources and dwindling budgets; changing user profiles, learning styles and needs; demand for alignment to institutional imperatives and a demonstration of value to the academic project; new roles and new competencies for staff are identified as key disruptors for academic libraries. By adopting strategic thinking and strategic planning, academic libraries embrace disruption easily and become more adept to change. The Rhodes University Library (RUL) is guided by a Strategic Plan (2013-2015) which was adopted in 2012. This Plan takes into cognisance the trends and developments impacting academic libraries with specific reference to the librarian’s role in research, undergraduate student success, information literacy, new roles and competencies for librarians, and the library as place within the academic context. Therefore, the challenges presented by load-shedding and the #RUReferencelist, #Rapeculture and #Feesmustfall protests during 2015 and 2016 were seen as opportunities to review processes, reconsider and adapt practices and services through a participatory process of discussions and engagements. The RUL’ culture of learning and exposure to best practices and innovative thinking has been carefully nurtured to empower staff for optimal personal, institutional and user benefit. This report therefore highlights through its various strategies how the RUL has shaped itself within the context of national and local disruptions and added value to the teaching, learning and research endeavours of the University during 2015 and 2016.
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  • Date Issued: 2017

“Wishy-washy liberalism” and “the art of getting lost” in Ivan Vladislavić’s Double Negative:

- Dass, Minesh

  • Authors: Dass, Minesh
  • Date: 2017
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142633 , vital:38097 , DOI: 10.4314/eia.v44i3.1
  • Description: The politics of the protagonist of Ivan Vladislavić’s Double Negative, Neville Lister, are broadly liberal during apartheid, but show signs of becoming more conservative during the post-apartheid era. In this article, I argue that this development is unsurprising because bourgeois white liberals and conservatives in South Africa continue to cling to the privileges afforded them as the propertied class. For this reason, acknowledgements of privilege and quests for discomfort, while not necessarily dishonest, do not in and of themselves constitute progressive politics. Rather, one can, as Neville does, become comfortable with discomfort so long as it allows one to enjoy a privileged lifestyle. I therefore draw a distinction between the unease argued for in much of what constitutes whiteness studies, and a sense of being lost that seems to demand the loss of the home and its attendant association with control. This sense of lostness emerges in two ways in the novel: in a description of a photograph that contains the spectral presence of a dead child, and in a game that Neville played when he was a young boy. Both of these sections of the text also deal with the limits of art – of writing and of photography in particular. I propose that these self-reflexive episodes suggest the novel’s own limits, and gesture beyond them in ways that are worth consideration by its middle-class readership.
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  • Date Issued: 2017

Post-apartheid nostalgia and the sadomasochistic pleasures of archival art

- Nsele, Zamansele

  • Authors: Nsele, Zamansele
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458648 , vital:75758 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC199624
  • Description: The burgeoning genre of archival art practice in post-apartheid South Africa has catalysed the evocation of nostalgia in abundance. The archive has been at the centre of numerous exhibitions in contemporary art. This paper explores the meaning of an emerging nostalgic turn in post-apartheid South Africa. The discussion considers the pleasure afforded by the sentimentality underpinning nostalgia and attends to the manner in which nostalgia coheres with the creative and aesthetic techniques of archival art. Scopophilia and the covert function of the sadomasochistic gaze are outlined. It is suggested that such acts of retrieval and repetition generally override ethical considerations in part because they unfold from the realm of the unconscious. The paper draws on psychoanalysis by way of Frantz Fanon.
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  • Date Issued: 2016

The development agenda and new roles for librarians

- Satgoor, Ujala, Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA), Eastern Cape branch (Annual General Meeting : 2015 : East-London)

Xenophilia in Muizenberg, South Africa: new potentials for race relations?

- Owen, Joy

  • Authors: Owen, Joy
  • Date: 2016
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147972 , vital:38698 , (http://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1548-744X/about/author-guidelines.html)
  • Description: Since the advent of democracy in 1994 race relations in South Africa have not improved substantially. The arrival of transmigrants from other African countries has emphasized a wounded South African psyche, as various xenophobic attitudes and attacks attest. However, a lesser known reality is the expression of xenophilia by South African women. In this article I argue that an intimate relationship between a South African coloured woman and a Congolese black man scripts a different potentiality for multiracial relations in the private and public spaces of urban Cape Town, South Africa.
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  • Date Issued: 2016

Absenting absence: Expanding zones of proximal development in environmental learning processes

- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila

  • Authors: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
  • Date: 2015
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436939 , vital:73318 , ISBN 9781315660899 , https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Realism-Environmental-Learning-and-Social-Ecological-Change/Price-Lotz-Sistka/p/book/9780367597689
  • Description: In this chapter I demonstrate that indigenous knowledge practice is com mensurate with critical realist scientific practice. Critical realism under labours for Western scien-tific knowledge, helping to bring its practice in line with its theory. In this paper I similarly underlabour for indigenous knowledge. I use examples from the Eastern Coast of Tan-zania to suggest that the kind of knowledge that is gener-ated through indigenous pro cesses is based on retroduc-tive and retrodictive reasoning (as well as induc tive and deductive reasoning) and is thus grounded in the theory development principles of DREI(C)/RRREI(C) which, ac-cording to Bhaskar (1993), is the basis for all scientific knowledge. The chapter therefore creates a basis for indi-viduals, groups, organiza tions, and institutions that are involved in the field of environment and sustainability edu-cation and have an indigenous knowledge component, to use the DREI(C)/RRREI(C) for learning and research pur-poses. In this way, they can assume the commensurablity of both Western scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledge. This work substantiates the signifi cance of indigenous knowledge as science in its own right, which pursues specified scientific principles and procedures to inform practice or praxis in the coastal learning environ-ment in a manner that may enhance social learning. There already exists a body of literature that regards indigenous knowledge as ‘local science’ (Sillitoe, 2007). However, I hope to expand this view by more closely aligning this ‘lo-cal science’ with the same prac tices used by science in general, where this science is defined according to critical realist principles.
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  • Date Issued: 2015

Africa in global International relations: emerging approaches to theory and practice: an introduction

- Bischoff, Paul, 1954-, Aning, Kwesi, Acharya, Amitav

  • Authors: Bischoff, Paul, 1954- , Aning, Kwesi , Acharya, Amitav
  • Date: 2015
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161662 , vital:40651 , ISBN 9781317437536
  • Description: This book investigates why Africa has been marginalised in IR discipline and theory and how this issue can be addressed in the context of the emerging Global IR paradigm. To have relevance for Africa, a new IR theory needs to be more inclusive, intellectually negotiated and holistically steeped in the African context. In this innovative volume, each author takes a critical look at existing IR paradigms and offers a unique perspective based on the African experience. Following on from Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan’s work, Non-Western International Relations Theory, it develops and advances non-Western IR theory and the idea of Global IR.
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  • Date Issued: 2015
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