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Devising communication strategies for improving public awareness on responsible antibiotic use: A case study of WHO campaign

  • Authors: D. Bhaskar
  • Date: 2020
  • Language: English
  • Type: Journal article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/3930 , vital:43972
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Diagnostic performance of several biomarkers for identification of cases of non-communicable diseases among Central Africans

Disserminating Knowledge about the value of indigenous food plants through e-learning programmes: a case study of communities within a rural village in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa

  • Authors: Alfred John Mwanza
  • Date: 2016
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis, Doctoral, PhD
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/2100 , vital:40887
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Disserminating Knowledge about the value of indigenous food plants through e-learning programmes: a case study of communities within a rural village in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa

  • Authors: Alfred John Mwanza
  • Date: 2016
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis, Doctoral, PhD
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/2099 , vital:40888
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Distorted, Relegated and Colonised: Reconceptualising Ogun as the God of Justice in Sunnie Ododo’s Hard Choice

  • Authors: Enongene Mirabeau Sone , Olutoba Gboyega Oluwasuji
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Ogun; coloniality; decolonial turn; Yoruba mythology; Nigeria
  • Language: English
  • Type: Journal Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/2648 , vital:42308
  • Description: The effort to name and ascribe duties to African gods using Eurocentric knowledge can lead to violence, hence causing them to be tagged negatively. Due to the imperial distortion of African history, the people were made to believe that they need civilisation, salvation, and reconstruction. The colonisers had to convince Africans that all that emanated from the continent was filled with ‘darkness’ and therefore needed to be civilised, reconstructed and humanised by Europe. African myths and religions suffer from this deceptive move by the Europeans and the gods are often relegated to being wicked and unjust. In this paper, which attempts to correct such erroneous beliefs, the focus is on Ogun, the Yoruba god of war, who has been subjected to mistaken identity by scholars, researchers and critics. It is against this backdrop and misrepresentation of Ogun that the authors delink from the notion that the god is a vengeful and obstinate god. They conclude that Ogun is not a god who engages in reckless devastation of life, as is commonly argued in literature criticisms of the Ogun figure, but a god who seeks justice when wronged. Decolonial thought and its view on ‘unthinking’ Eurocentric epistemologies on Africa are used to unpack Ogun’s characteristics as a god of justice in Ododo’s Hard Choice.
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Diurnal variation of steroid hormones and their reference intervals using mass spectrometric analysis

Drought Influences on Food Insecurity in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review

Eastern Cape Healthcare Workers Acquisition of SARS-CoV-2 (ECHAS): Cross-Sectional (Nested Cohort) Study Protocol

Elufioye et al Total phenol.pdf

  • Authors: Oyedeji, Adebola Omowunmi
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/2484 , vital:41894
  • Description: Various articles from Prof Adebola Oyedeji
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English Language Learning strategies (LLS) used by WSU students: a study of Potsdam Branch students of Buffalo City Campus

  • Authors: Winfred Dwamena Aboagye
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Education
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis, Doctoral, PhD
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/2179 , vital:40910
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Enhancing Teacher Support for the effective implementation of inclusive education: A case of selected Districts in South Africa

Epidemiology, risk factors and molecular analysis of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Evaluation of Intussusception After Oral Monovalent Rotavirus Vaccination in South Africa

EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN OPTICS TEACHING MODULE IN ENHANCING CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF GRADE 11 LEARNERS AT A SELECTED SCHOOL IN MTHATHA

  • Authors: MERLIN JOHN
  • Date: 2014
  • Language: English
  • Type: PhD Manuscript
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/2065 , vital:40812 , DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
  • Description: This study aimed at investigating the conceptions and alternative conceptions regarding the optical phenomena ‘reflection’, ‘refraction’ and ‘total internal reflection’ amongst Grade 11 learners at a selected school in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa and developing remedies to enhance their conceptual understanding of this area. The study adopted a quasi-experimental pre-test – post-test design. To enhance the credibility of the findings of the study, the data were collected using mixed methods (both questionnaires and interviews). The questionnaires developed for the study were 4 tier Optics Diagnostic Instruments (4ODIs) which were designed in such a way that both qualitative and quantitative data could be collected. To explore the findings from the pre-tests, face-to-face interviews with selected learners from both the groups were conducted. This stage was followed by the design an optics teaching module which aimed at enhancing the experimental group learners’ conceptual understanding of the optical phenomena, whereas the comparison group was taught in the traditional teaching method. To test the effectiveness of the designed teaching module, the 4ODIs were administered as post-tests to both groups. To enhance the credibility of the findings from the post-tests, face-to-face interviews were conducted with some selected learners from the experimental group. Since the aim of the interviews at this stage was to test how the designed optics teaching module helped the experimental group learners in enhancing their conceptual understanding, the comparison group learners were not interviewed at this stage since they were taught in the traditional teaching method. The quantitative analyses were carried out using Microsoft Excel and the statistical software, IBM SPSS Version 20. The qualitative analysis was carried out manually by coding and categorizing the learners’ responses from the questionnaires and the interviews. The item analysis of the 1st tiers was carried out using Microsoft Excel. The statistical comparisons of the test scores of the 1st tiers of the tests (pre-test – post-test comparison of both the groups and the experimental group – comparison group comparison of both the pre-tests and the post-tests) were performed using t-tests (independent samples t-test and paired samples t-test). The 2nd tiers (learners’ confidence levels in their responses to the corresponding 1st tiers) and the 4th tiers (learners’ confidence levels in their responses to the corresponding 3rd tiers) were analysed by (using SPSS) calculating measures of central tendencies of their responses. The 3rd tiers (open-ended questions) and the interviews were analysed manually by coding and categorizing learners’ responses. Before the implementation of the optics teaching module, both the experimental and the comparison groups were found to hold a variety of alternative conceptions about the optical phenomena. Moreover, the performances of both the groups were the same. It was also found that the learners from both the groups were not confident when they approached the pre-tests. The qualitative analyses of the learners’ responses to the 3rd tiers and the interviews suggested that most of the correct responses given by the learners to tier-1 of the pre-test questionnaires originated from a faulty or vague understanding of the scientific concepts. Moreover, some of the incorrect responses identified could not be considered as alternative conceptions because of the very low confidence levels the learners displayed in these responses. Such responses were categorized as ‘errors due to lack of knowledge’. The analyses of the post-test questionnaires, and face-to-face interviews conducted immediately after the post-tests, revealed that the experimental group outperformed the comparison group in terms of their conceptual understanding of the optical phenomena. In other words, the number of experimental group learners who held scientifically-accepted concepts increased for some questions of the post-tests and in some other questions, the experimental group learners developed new scientific understanding of many situations with regard to the optical phenomena. To conclude, the findings of the study proved that the Grade 11 learners in the selected school held a variety of alternative conceptions and errors due to lack of knowledge. However, the optics teaching module, which was designed by taking into consideration the learners’ prior knowledge regarding the particular learning area, could remedy most of the alternative conceptions and errors which were merely due to lack of knowledge.
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Exploring national human resource profile and trends of Prosthetists/ Orthotists in South Africa from 2002 to 2018

Exploring national human resource profile and trends of Prosthetists/Orthotists in South Africa from 2002 to 2018

Exploring the curriculum content knowledge and skills bearing acquired by acquired by advanced certificate in education graduates in a selected institution of higher learning

EXPLORING THE SUPPORT PROVIDED TO SCHOOL PRINCIPALS BY CIRCUIT MANAGERS IN THE NGCOBO DISTRICT IN THE EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA

Factors affecting specialist psychiatry training in South Africa: Bullying during specialist psychiatric training?

Factors associated with glycemic control among South African adult residents of Mkhondo municipality living with diabetes mellitus

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