A critical investigation of the problems of teaching poetry to English-speaking pupils in South African senior schools
- Authors: Durham, Ken
- Date: 1969
- Subjects: Poetry -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2293 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011609 , Poetry -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- South Africa
- Description: This thesis is a study of the problems of teaching poetry to English speaking pupils at South African senior schools. It is a study of what is generally agreed to be 'a peculiarly difficult department of teaching' Reeves 1958. Some would go as far as to suggest that the teaching of poetry is the most difficult aspect of any school subject : "No topic in the school curriculum has so many pitfalls as the teaching of poetry in the classroom: it is easier to go astray in attempting to promote aesthetic responses to a poem than in any other kind of lesson. 'Currey {19S8) p. 126.' If one may judge too by the number of complaints from a large body of teachers (see Chapter Four) about the difficulty of teaching poetry successfully the assessments given by Reeves and Currey appear to be well- founded. Additional weight is given by some of the attitudes of pupils themselves towards poetry and the poetry lesson (see Chapter Three). Further confirmation is evident at Teachers' Conferences and from examiners' reports that examination questions on poetry are often among the most badly answered and the least popular of all questions set. Even more significant, perhaps. were the responses from two separate graduate student teacher groups (U.E.D. English Method classes, Rhodes University 1965, 1967). When asked at the beginning of the course to name the one type of English lesson they felt least confident in handling, 42 of the 64 student teachers answered, 'The poetry lesson'. Into. p. 1.
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A geographical study of the Cape Midlands and Eastern Karoo area with reference to the physiography and elements of land use
- Authors: Badenhorst, J J
- Date: 1969 , 2013-11-14
- Subjects: Land use -- South Africa , Geomorphology -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:4867 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007581 , Land use -- South Africa , Geomorphology -- South Africa
- Description: The subject has been approached in the conventional geographic manner in successive chapters, Relief, Geology, Soil, Climate, etc. In practice, the relationship between geographic factors and land use is so close that it is usually very difficult to separate the one from the other. When there is any reference to a specific relationship in any chapter, it must be borne in mind that one must always take the other geographic factors into account. In this study the stress falls on an evaluation of the present land use. Even if there is no recommendation regarding the way in which the land should be used, this survey can still be used as the basis for future planning. Intro. p.viii , KMBT_363 , Adobe Acrobat 9.54 Paper Capture Plug-in
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An analysis of Wesleyan missionary strategy in the eastern districts of the Cape Colony and "Caffreland" between 1823 and 1838, and an attempt to determine how far it reacted to government policies in the Cape
- Authors: Duff, Allen Ernest George
- Date: 1969
- Subjects: Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society , Missions -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- Sources , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1795-1872
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:1250 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011606 , Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society , Missions -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- Sources , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1795-1872
- Description: The purpose of this thesis has been to trace and examine the development of Wesleyan attitudes, and the actions which resulted therefrom towards the task of the evangelisation of the eastern districts of the Cape Colony and "Caffreland". These attitudes were conditioned throughout by the fact that they held certain religious principles as paramount. It is an attempt to clarify what was involved on the ecclesiastical side in this period of Wesleyan and South African history. A considerable amount of attention has been given, by various writers, to the history of the south-eastern area of South Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century. Some works have either been concerned with the more general history of the time or with the position of all the missionaries within the total political sphere. Others have concentrated on the Wesleyans particularly, either in a very general sense or in relation to one particular event, or the later decades or this half century. The period 1823 to 1833 was chosen because it covered the period of the origin of Wesleyan strategy and its first distinct phases. Where after it may be considered to have reached full maturity and become the basis of all future action in the succeeding decades. Wesleyan strategy was, to a large extent, a reaction to government policies and requires, throughout, such a consideration. The Wesleyan Missionary Society was chosen, not because on any denominational affiliations, but because of the part which it played in these areas during that time and has since played in the annuals of eastern Cape history. The approach has been to present the relevant documents in chronological order. This was done to emphasise the development over the years. Chapters have consequently been divided according to the stages or phases of this development. It has meant that subsidiary question which arise from this development have not been dealt with separately, but simply referred to as they occur. One point remains. Wesleyan correspondence from the Eastern Cape between 1837 and 1857 has disappeared from the archives of the Methodist Missionary Society in London. All attempts to trace these letters have proved futile. Consequently, it was necessary to reproduce a couple of quotes from letters contained in this correspondence which is referred to by D. Williams and C. Roxborough who had access to this material.
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An historical survey of the organs, organists and music of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, from 1834 to 1952
- Authors: Smith, Barry, 1939-
- Date: 1969
- Subjects: St. George's Cathedral (Cape Town, South Africa) , Organ (Musical instrument) -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- History , Organists
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2665 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004745 , St. George's Cathedral (Cape Town, South Africa) , Organ (Musical instrument) -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- History , Organists
- Description: From Introduction: The first recorded Church of England service at the Cape took place in 1749, but for almost a century after that date Anglicans had no place of worship of their own. From about 1807 onwards the Groote Kerk in Adderley Street was regularly lent to the Chaplain on Sundays and the Kerkraad even allowed their bells to be rung to inform 'the British that it was time for their service'. In October 1827, for the first time in history, a bishop of the Church of England visited Cape Town. This was Dr. J.T. James, Bishop of Calcutta, who landed for a few days on his first voyage to India and was met by the Governor and his staff in great state. A meeting was held at which Bishop James was present and the eighteen gentlemen discussed proposals for the building of an English Church in Cape Town. "It was proposed that the building should hold at least 1,000 people. The Bishop said that the Home Government would grant ground and half the expenses... He reminded them of their obligation to the Dutch Church, who for so many years had allowed them to use their sanctuary, and he exhorted them to be active and persevering and remain attached to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of their forefathers, that venerable Church based on the foundation of Christ and His Apostles." As a result of t his meeting the Governor gave the site in the Gardens (at the foot of the Avenue) on which St . George's Cathedral now stands, and the site was consecrated by Bishop James on October 23rd, just before he sailed for Calcutta . "But after his departure the glow faded away, difficulties and quarrels appeared... and the scheme was shelved for two years." However, on St. George's Day, 23rd April 1830, the foundation stone of St. George's Church was laid by the Governor, Sir Lowry Cole,with military and Masonic honours. A triumphal arch was erected and troops lined the streets through which the procession was to pass. The name of the street at the head of which the Cathedral stands was changed from Bergh Street to St. George' s Street, and the contract was exclusive of enclosure, gates, bells and organ, but including pulpit, reading and clerk 's desks and all the work of the altar."
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The case of James Erith, 1820 settler, and his struggle for compensation
- Authors: Woods, Timothy Phillips
- Date: 1969
- Subjects: Erith, James, 1790-1869 , British settlers of 1820 (South Africa) , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Emigration and immigration
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2618 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013451
- Description: James Erith, a freeholder of the country of Kent, was one of the “1820 Settlers" who emigrated to the Cape and were settled mainly in the Zuurveld in the present district of Albany. This investigation was prompted by the fact that though he was by no means the settler to suffer misfortune and injustice, he was the only proprietor of a small party who eventually secured compensation. The case was the case of James Erith but the initiative and persistence was that of his wife, Jane Erith, who made in all five voyages spread over twelve years, before she secured some at least of the ends she sought and the family settled in Cape Town. The Eriths fought their case with the respective Colonial Offices for twelve years in all, and in the case of the Colonial Office, London, confronted no less than four Secretaries of State in five successive Cabinets. In the course of their struggle the Eriths received (a) the balance of their deposit; (b) cash compensation for cattle stolen by the Xhosa, and in the fina1 arbitration in 1832 the sum of £500 cash. James Erith, master baker, remains a rather shadowy figure, sharp-sighted to his own interest, querulous and not very effective. The triumph of 1832 was in the main the triumph of Jane, his wife, an amateur and robust Portia. Shrewd, tenacious, deft in argument this importunate woman knew how to stand her ground; there can have been few women who secured passage on a naval vessel and then allowed the Admiralty to submit its account to the Colonial Office. How the Eriths subsisted between their eviction from Waaye Plaats in 1823 and the arbitration award of 1832, has not been established. On occasion in London Mrs. Erith stayed with the Rev. R. Stewarts, Rutland House, Black Heath Road in Greenwich: in Cape Town it is believed that Erith plied his old trade. When he died there, in 1869 at the age of seventy nine, he left a house and three cottages to his daughter Ellen: mortgaged property in the district of Caledon, to his son-in-law George Budge : a house and three mortgaged properties in Simon’s Town to his daughter Anne Budge. He left an income of £24 per annum to his daughter Jane Moodie, widow of the late John Powell. The records used in this study, in addition to those printed in Theal, were the series C.O. 48 from the Public Record Office, London, now available on microfilm in the Cory Library at Rhodes University and records of the District of Albany in the Archives, Cape Town. The investigation has, it is thought, thrown new light on the background to the emigration scheme of 1819, on the mishandling of the Settlers in the Zuurveld after their arrival in the Cape, and on the punctilious attention to detail given by the Colonial Office, London. While it is true that the interests of the Eriths were probably smothered in the Tory endeavour to damp down the attack on Somerset in l826-1827, the Secretaries of State are by no means discredited by this analysis. It sasys much for any pattern of administration that in the thick of the Reform Bill crisis, the efforts of a single obscure member of Parliament, Mr. J O Briscoe, could secure a final arbitration award.
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The ideals of consciousness and conduct in Henry James's The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl
- Authors: Bryer, Lynne
- Date: 1969
- Subjects: James, Henry, 1843-1916. Ambassadors , James, Henry, 1843-1916. Golden bowl
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2321 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014635
- Description: The mature work of Henry James gives the fullest expression of certain ideals which I have called the ideals of consciousness and conduct. These ideals are the subject of this thesis. As they are best illustrated in the two novels The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904), I have first analysed these books in detail. Though emphasising "theme" rather than "techniques" (I make the usual working distinction while recognising its limitations), I have also attempted to show how intimately James's technique is related to his exploration of consciousness and conduct. In Part Three I have tried to gather up ideas arising from the analyses of The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl to compare them, expand on them and generalise from them. In this way I have arrived at conclusions that may help to interpret mature vision of James.
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- Date Issued: 1969