A framework for recuperation: HIV/AIDS and the Keiskamma Altarpiece
- Authors: Schmahmann, Brenda
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147593 , vital:38652 , https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2010.43.3.34
- Description: South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV of any nation in the world. While various conditions and circumstances have made South Africa especially susceptible to an HIV/AIDS pandemic, its leadership has not recognized the impact of the disease or found appropriate strategies to address rising rates of infection. Thabo Mbeki's presidency (1999—2008) and the appointment of Manto Tshabalala-Msimang as his health minister were disastrous in terms of the pandemic.
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Schmahmann, Brenda
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147593 , vital:38652 , https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2010.43.3.34
- Description: South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV of any nation in the world. While various conditions and circumstances have made South Africa especially susceptible to an HIV/AIDS pandemic, its leadership has not recognized the impact of the disease or found appropriate strategies to address rising rates of infection. Thabo Mbeki's presidency (1999—2008) and the appointment of Manto Tshabalala-Msimang as his health minister were disastrous in terms of the pandemic.
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- Date Issued: 2010
A tale of 2 investigations:
- Authors: Amner, Roderick J
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159438 , vital:40297 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139354
- Description: This is a tale of two in-depth stories, both produced by one Daily Dispatch journalist, Gcina Nstaluba, in 2009. One was wildly successful - it helped change the face of the government's housing policy and won Ntsaluba SA Story of the Year at the 2010 Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards. The other was deemed a dismal failure by Ntsaluba himself. Why? And what can these stories teach us and our students about doing journalism in South Africa?
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Amner, Roderick J
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159438 , vital:40297 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139354
- Description: This is a tale of two in-depth stories, both produced by one Daily Dispatch journalist, Gcina Nstaluba, in 2009. One was wildly successful - it helped change the face of the government's housing policy and won Ntsaluba SA Story of the Year at the 2010 Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards. The other was deemed a dismal failure by Ntsaluba himself. Why? And what can these stories teach us and our students about doing journalism in South Africa?
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- Date Issued: 2010
Beyond teaching language: towards terminological primacy in learners' geometric conceptualisation
- Atebe, Humphrey U, Schäfer, Marc
- Authors: Atebe, Humphrey U , Schäfer, Marc
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140960 , vital:37932 , https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC20922
- Description: This paper reports on a specific aspect of a broader geometry conceptualisation study that sought to explore and explicate learners' knowledge of basic geometric terminology in selected Nigerian and South African high schools. It is framed by the notion that students' acquisition of the correct terminology in school geometry is important for their success in the subject. The original study further aimed to determine the relationship that might exist between a learner's ability in verbal geometry terminology tasks and his/her ability in visual geometry terminology tasks. A total of 144 learners (72 each from South Africa and Nigeria) were selected for the study, using both the stratified and the fish-bowl sampling techniques. A questionnaire consisting of a sixty-item multiple-choice objective test provided the data for the study. An overall percentage mean score of 44,17% obtained in the test indicated that learners in this study had only a limited knowledge of basic geometric terminology. The Nigerian subsample in the study had a weaker understanding of basic geometric terminology than their South African counterparts. Importantly, there were high positive correlations between participants' ability in verbal geometry terminology tasks and their ability in visual geometry terminology tasks. These results are consistent with those of several earlier studies, and provide a reasonably firm basis for certain recommendations to be made.
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Atebe, Humphrey U , Schäfer, Marc
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140960 , vital:37932 , https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC20922
- Description: This paper reports on a specific aspect of a broader geometry conceptualisation study that sought to explore and explicate learners' knowledge of basic geometric terminology in selected Nigerian and South African high schools. It is framed by the notion that students' acquisition of the correct terminology in school geometry is important for their success in the subject. The original study further aimed to determine the relationship that might exist between a learner's ability in verbal geometry terminology tasks and his/her ability in visual geometry terminology tasks. A total of 144 learners (72 each from South Africa and Nigeria) were selected for the study, using both the stratified and the fish-bowl sampling techniques. A questionnaire consisting of a sixty-item multiple-choice objective test provided the data for the study. An overall percentage mean score of 44,17% obtained in the test indicated that learners in this study had only a limited knowledge of basic geometric terminology. The Nigerian subsample in the study had a weaker understanding of basic geometric terminology than their South African counterparts. Importantly, there were high positive correlations between participants' ability in verbal geometry terminology tasks and their ability in visual geometry terminology tasks. These results are consistent with those of several earlier studies, and provide a reasonably firm basis for certain recommendations to be made.
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- Date Issued: 2010
Dialectics of dance and dress: the performative negotiation of Soli girl initiates (Moye) in Zambia
- Authors: Simbao, Ruth K
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147492 , vital:38643 , https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2010.43.3.64
- Description: During a 2005 dance rehearsal in Nkomeshya Village near Lusaka, Zambia, a group of Soli girl initiates (moye) entered a clearing, slowly moving towards the drummer who beckoned them with her rhythmic eats. The girls per-formed a polite curtseying step, reflecting the meek modesty they are taught to display when they humbly greet elders or their future husbands with downcast eyes.
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Simbao, Ruth K
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147492 , vital:38643 , https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2010.43.3.64
- Description: During a 2005 dance rehearsal in Nkomeshya Village near Lusaka, Zambia, a group of Soli girl initiates (moye) entered a clearing, slowly moving towards the drummer who beckoned them with her rhythmic eats. The girls per-formed a polite curtseying step, reflecting the meek modesty they are taught to display when they humbly greet elders or their future husbands with downcast eyes.
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- Date Issued: 2010
I remember having mac and cheese at my gran’s house:
- Authors: Rennie, Gillian
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159471 , vital:40300 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139376
- Description: In a tutorial entitled The evolution of MEdia, writing and editing lecturer Gillian Rennie introduced Rhodes University first-year journalism and media studies students to Denis Hirson's I Remember King Kong (the boxer) and asked them to write their own I Remember, focusing on their personal relationships with the media. This is the edited result of a collective exercise in recollection by 270 students.
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Rennie, Gillian
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159471 , vital:40300 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139376
- Description: In a tutorial entitled The evolution of MEdia, writing and editing lecturer Gillian Rennie introduced Rhodes University first-year journalism and media studies students to Denis Hirson's I Remember King Kong (the boxer) and asked them to write their own I Remember, focusing on their personal relationships with the media. This is the edited result of a collective exercise in recollection by 270 students.
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- Date Issued: 2010
In search of critical engagement: a history of South African university based journalism
- du Toit, Jeanne, de Beer, Arnold S
- Authors: du Toit, Jeanne , de Beer, Arnold S
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159453 , vital:40299 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139372
- Description: Historical discussions of South African journalism education (Tomaselli 1991: 167; De Beer and Tomaselli 2000; Steenveld 2006) refer to examples of teaching practice which have served as critical interventions into political process. They occur primarily in the late 1970s and 1980s and it is arguable that the social circumstances that existed during this period presented unique opportunities for critical education. The literature suggests, however, that these examples represent the exception rather than the rule. It would seem, in fact, that a critical approach to journalism education has never been realised in South Africa in any substantive way. It is with this argument in mind that I explore, in this paper, the historical construction of journalism as a subject of university education in South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: du Toit, Jeanne , de Beer, Arnold S
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159453 , vital:40299 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139372
- Description: Historical discussions of South African journalism education (Tomaselli 1991: 167; De Beer and Tomaselli 2000; Steenveld 2006) refer to examples of teaching practice which have served as critical interventions into political process. They occur primarily in the late 1970s and 1980s and it is arguable that the social circumstances that existed during this period presented unique opportunities for critical education. The literature suggests, however, that these examples represent the exception rather than the rule. It would seem, in fact, that a critical approach to journalism education has never been realised in South Africa in any substantive way. It is with this argument in mind that I explore, in this paper, the historical construction of journalism as a subject of university education in South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2010
Mobile phones, youth radio, citizen journalists: how the news is coming to Grahamstow
- Authors: Dugmore, Harry
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159412 , vital:40295 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139343
- Description: Newspapers everywhere are being forced to rethink their role as simply providers of general news of the day. As people can access much more immediate information and news online, from a wide variety of sources, and get to "hear about things" from their friends and contacts through Facebook, Twitter and other "social media", local papers are having to find better ways to provide immediate and more useful information and news.
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Dugmore, Harry
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159412 , vital:40295 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139343
- Description: Newspapers everywhere are being forced to rethink their role as simply providers of general news of the day. As people can access much more immediate information and news online, from a wide variety of sources, and get to "hear about things" from their friends and contacts through Facebook, Twitter and other "social media", local papers are having to find better ways to provide immediate and more useful information and news.
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- Date Issued: 2010
Teaching conflict-sensitive journalism:
- Authors: du Toit, Peter
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159449 , vital:40298 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139358
- Description: We expect court reporters to know something about the law, financial journalists to have a grounding in economics, and parliamentary correspondents to understand politics, but many journalists are ill-equipped handle social phenomenon that is ubiquitous to most beats - conflict.
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: du Toit, Peter
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159449 , vital:40298 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139358
- Description: We expect court reporters to know something about the law, financial journalists to have a grounding in economics, and parliamentary correspondents to understand politics, but many journalists are ill-equipped handle social phenomenon that is ubiquitous to most beats - conflict.
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- Date Issued: 2010
The gap between what 'ought' to be and what students want
- Authors: Boshoff, Priscilla A
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70812 , vital:29747
- Description: There’s no curriculum! There’s no curriculum!” The young man in the focus group was so frustrated that he had to repeat himself, not just once, but several times. I had just asked the group what their feelings were about their second-year coursework. His sentiments were echoed by many of the students in the group, all of whom had passed the rigorous application process into second year at Rhodes University’s School of Journalism and Media Studies.
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Boshoff, Priscilla A
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70812 , vital:29747
- Description: There’s no curriculum! There’s no curriculum!” The young man in the focus group was so frustrated that he had to repeat himself, not just once, but several times. I had just asked the group what their feelings were about their second-year coursework. His sentiments were echoed by many of the students in the group, all of whom had passed the rigorous application process into second year at Rhodes University’s School of Journalism and Media Studies.
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- Date Issued: 2010
Wearing two hats:
- Authors: Vorster, Jo-Anne E
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159427 , vital:40296 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139349
- Description: In an attempt to find out, I sat in on the weekly meetings of Rhodes University Journalism and Media Studies (JMS) academics who were developing a curriculum for a fourth year course in 2006. My interest as an academic development practitioner is in collaborative development of professional or vocational curricula. What the meeting transcripts and interviews with these and other academics in the journalism school uncover is a complex process that underpins the curriculum development of professional courses - particularly, those professions that are not regulated by a professional board.
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Vorster, Jo-Anne E
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159427 , vital:40296 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139349
- Description: In an attempt to find out, I sat in on the weekly meetings of Rhodes University Journalism and Media Studies (JMS) academics who were developing a curriculum for a fourth year course in 2006. My interest as an academic development practitioner is in collaborative development of professional or vocational curricula. What the meeting transcripts and interviews with these and other academics in the journalism school uncover is a complex process that underpins the curriculum development of professional courses - particularly, those professions that are not regulated by a professional board.
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- Date Issued: 2010
When 140 years of small-town meets journalism education newspapering:
- Authors: Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: vital:38358 , http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139344
- Description: By acquiring a 140-year-old newspaper as its site of experiential learning for journalism students in 2003, the Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies set out boldly to enhance both journalism teaching and journalism practice in Grahamstown and South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: vital:38358 , http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139344
- Description: By acquiring a 140-year-old newspaper as its site of experiential learning for journalism students in 2003, the Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies set out boldly to enhance both journalism teaching and journalism practice in Grahamstown and South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2010
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