A demographic and socio-economic profile of Region D
- Black, Philip A, McCartan, Patrick John, Clayton, P M
- Authors: Black, Philip A , McCartan, Patrick John , Clayton, P M
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Population -- Statistics Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Economic conditions -- Statistics Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Social conditions -- Statistics
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2053 , vital:20251 , ISBN 0868101486
- Description: Region D is one of the eight so-called development regions created in terms of a regional development strategy mapped out by the South African government in a White Paper of 1982. The region essentially consists of the Eastern Cape Province, the Border corridor, and the nominally 'independent' homelands of Ciskei and Transkei (southern part) stretching from Uniondale in the west, to Middelburg in the north and Umtata in the east. There is clearly a need to develop a data base for this region especially as it has been afforded priority status in terms of the new regional development policy. The purpose of this Working Paper is therefore to provide a statistical profile of Region D, distinguishing where possible between various sub-regions within Region D and between Region D and the rest of South Africa. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Black, Philip A , McCartan, Patrick John , Clayton, P M
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Population -- Statistics Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Economic conditions -- Statistics Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Social conditions -- Statistics
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2053 , vital:20251 , ISBN 0868101486
- Description: Region D is one of the eight so-called development regions created in terms of a regional development strategy mapped out by the South African government in a White Paper of 1982. The region essentially consists of the Eastern Cape Province, the Border corridor, and the nominally 'independent' homelands of Ciskei and Transkei (southern part) stretching from Uniondale in the west, to Middelburg in the north and Umtata in the east. There is clearly a need to develop a data base for this region especially as it has been afforded priority status in terms of the new regional development policy. The purpose of this Working Paper is therefore to provide a statistical profile of Region D, distinguishing where possible between various sub-regions within Region D and between Region D and the rest of South Africa. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1986
The adsorption of chelating reagents on oxide minerals
- Bryson, Michael Andrew Walker
- Authors: Bryson, Michael Andrew Walker
- Date: 1986
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:20969 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/5729
- Description: This work constitutes a fundamental study of the interaction between chelating reagents and oxide minerals . The adsorption mechanisms have been elucidated for most of the systems generated by the oxides of copper(II) or iron(III) and chelating reagents octyl hydroxamate, N-phenylbenzohydroxamate, salicylaldoxime, 5-nitrosalicylaldoxime or 8-hydroxyquinoline. The results of the preliminary work on one of the systems, viz. the oxide-hydroxamate system, indicated that the classical type adsorption process, in which the reagent forms a uniform layer of chelate over the oxide surface was not applicable. Rather, the adsorption occurred via the formation of a discrete metal-chelate precipitate at the oxide surface. In order to better understand the associated with copper (II) oxide, adsorption process the oxide was recrystallized to produce a coarser material with a more uniform surface. This allowed the oxide surface to be viewed under the scanning electron microscope and also enabled the relative concentration of "surface" and "bulk" chelate to be assessed. A detailed investigation of the effect of the system variables; pH, conditioning period, concentration, temperature, surface area and dispersing reagent on the rate of precipitation of the copper chelate species of general form, Cu(chel)2' was made. In addition the chemical nature of the adsorbed species and the structural form of the precipitates were determined with the aid of infra-red spectroscopy and the scanning electron microscope. On the basis of these results a model has been formulated for the adsorption processes. In this model the adsorption dissolution, is considered to occur in stages: 1. Oxide dissolution, 2. metal complex formation, 3. Metal chelate precipitation at the oxide surface and 4. “bulk” chelate formation by post-precipitation processes. The precipitation process was examined in more detail by the study of the adsorption of chelate on copper metal. The results of this study showed that it was possible to relate the structural type of precipitate formed, ie. fibrous or platelike, to the degree of supersaturation of the metal complex in solution. Furthermore, it was found that the precipitate structure determined whether it remained attached to the surface or detached. Contact angle measurements of air bubbles on copper metal conditioned with chelate were related to the adsorption results in an attempt to isolate the optimum conditions for flotation of oxide minerals.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Bryson, Michael Andrew Walker
- Date: 1986
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:20969 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/5729
- Description: This work constitutes a fundamental study of the interaction between chelating reagents and oxide minerals . The adsorption mechanisms have been elucidated for most of the systems generated by the oxides of copper(II) or iron(III) and chelating reagents octyl hydroxamate, N-phenylbenzohydroxamate, salicylaldoxime, 5-nitrosalicylaldoxime or 8-hydroxyquinoline. The results of the preliminary work on one of the systems, viz. the oxide-hydroxamate system, indicated that the classical type adsorption process, in which the reagent forms a uniform layer of chelate over the oxide surface was not applicable. Rather, the adsorption occurred via the formation of a discrete metal-chelate precipitate at the oxide surface. In order to better understand the associated with copper (II) oxide, adsorption process the oxide was recrystallized to produce a coarser material with a more uniform surface. This allowed the oxide surface to be viewed under the scanning electron microscope and also enabled the relative concentration of "surface" and "bulk" chelate to be assessed. A detailed investigation of the effect of the system variables; pH, conditioning period, concentration, temperature, surface area and dispersing reagent on the rate of precipitation of the copper chelate species of general form, Cu(chel)2' was made. In addition the chemical nature of the adsorbed species and the structural form of the precipitates were determined with the aid of infra-red spectroscopy and the scanning electron microscope. On the basis of these results a model has been formulated for the adsorption processes. In this model the adsorption dissolution, is considered to occur in stages: 1. Oxide dissolution, 2. metal complex formation, 3. Metal chelate precipitation at the oxide surface and 4. “bulk” chelate formation by post-precipitation processes. The precipitation process was examined in more detail by the study of the adsorption of chelate on copper metal. The results of this study showed that it was possible to relate the structural type of precipitate formed, ie. fibrous or platelike, to the degree of supersaturation of the metal complex in solution. Furthermore, it was found that the precipitate structure determined whether it remained attached to the surface or detached. Contact angle measurements of air bubbles on copper metal conditioned with chelate were related to the adsorption results in an attempt to isolate the optimum conditions for flotation of oxide minerals.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1986
Graphicacy and the third dimension: an investigation into the problem of poor performance in relief mapwork in South African secondary schools
- Burton, Michael St. John Whitehead
- Authors: Burton, Michael St. John Whitehead
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Graphicacy , Maps , Map reading , Visualisation , Geography , Secondary education , South Africa , Pupils , Learners , Teachers
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1358 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001424
- Description: Three-dimensional graphicacy is the part of map work that appears to be the most problematIcal. Bartz (1970) says that thinking and visualising in three-dimensional space is difficult enough, but trying to derive notions in three-dimensions, when you have only seen them as they are represented in distorted two-dimensional fashion, is even more difficult. Yet pupils of geography are required to learn such three-dimensional concepts from the two-dimensional distorted map presentations. The geography teacher has an important educational role to play in promoting graphicacy and Balchin (1965), who coined the term, felt that it should be an essential underpinning of an integrated education. The problem is that children perform badly, teachers are not successfully imparting three-dimensional graphicacy skills and as Board and Taylor (1977) indicate, for some time now it has been fashionable to dismiss maps as being irrelevant or useless in geographical research. This thesis attempts to analyse this reported malady, the problems are exposed and solutions offered. Investigation of the literature, with the aim of clarifying the problems involved, follows four leads. These are the part played by the map as a mode of communication, the physical processes involved in mapwork revealed by work in the realm of neurophysiology, the process of visualisation in the field of perception and psychology, and finally the stage of conceptual development of the mapworker. The state of affairs in South Africa is disclosed by an analysis of teacher-directed literature, of examination syllabuses, of text-book treatment of three-dimensional mapwork in South Africa and overseas, of past examination questions, and finally of teachers' views. Experimental exercises have been executed in an attempt to link the key findings of published research to the local scene. Conclusions are then drawn, and recommendations made for improving three-dimensional graphicacy in South African secondary schools.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Burton, Michael St. John Whitehead
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Graphicacy , Maps , Map reading , Visualisation , Geography , Secondary education , South Africa , Pupils , Learners , Teachers
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1358 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001424
- Description: Three-dimensional graphicacy is the part of map work that appears to be the most problematIcal. Bartz (1970) says that thinking and visualising in three-dimensional space is difficult enough, but trying to derive notions in three-dimensions, when you have only seen them as they are represented in distorted two-dimensional fashion, is even more difficult. Yet pupils of geography are required to learn such three-dimensional concepts from the two-dimensional distorted map presentations. The geography teacher has an important educational role to play in promoting graphicacy and Balchin (1965), who coined the term, felt that it should be an essential underpinning of an integrated education. The problem is that children perform badly, teachers are not successfully imparting three-dimensional graphicacy skills and as Board and Taylor (1977) indicate, for some time now it has been fashionable to dismiss maps as being irrelevant or useless in geographical research. This thesis attempts to analyse this reported malady, the problems are exposed and solutions offered. Investigation of the literature, with the aim of clarifying the problems involved, follows four leads. These are the part played by the map as a mode of communication, the physical processes involved in mapwork revealed by work in the realm of neurophysiology, the process of visualisation in the field of perception and psychology, and finally the stage of conceptual development of the mapworker. The state of affairs in South Africa is disclosed by an analysis of teacher-directed literature, of examination syllabuses, of text-book treatment of three-dimensional mapwork in South Africa and overseas, of past examination questions, and finally of teachers' views. Experimental exercises have been executed in an attempt to link the key findings of published research to the local scene. Conclusions are then drawn, and recommendations made for improving three-dimensional graphicacy in South African secondary schools.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1986
Mtsitso IV 1986
- Chambine and Venancio Mbande's Timbila orchestra, Tracey, Andrew T N
- Authors: Chambine and Venancio Mbande's Timbila orchestra , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- South Africa , Folk music , Xylophone music , Africa South Africa Wildebeesfontein f-sa
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , Sound recording material
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/97887 , vital:31502 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC060a-04
- Description: Traditional dance song played by Chambine with Timbila xylophone accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Chambine and Venancio Mbande's Timbila orchestra , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- South Africa , Folk music , Xylophone music , Africa South Africa Wildebeesfontein f-sa
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , Sound recording material
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/97887 , vital:31502 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC060a-04
- Description: Traditional dance song played by Chambine with Timbila xylophone accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Mtsitso IV 1986
- Chambine and Venancio Mbande's Timbila orchestra, Tracey, Andrew T N
- Authors: Chambine and Venancio Mbande's Timbila orchestra , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- South Africa , Xylophone (Musical instruments) , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Wildebeesfontein f-sa
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98649 , vital:31606 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC071a-04
- Description: Traditional dance song played by Chambine with Timbila xylophone accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Chambine and Venancio Mbande's Timbila orchestra , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Chopi (African people) -- Music , Folk music -- South Africa , Xylophone (Musical instruments) , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Wildebeesfontein f-sa
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/98649 , vital:31606 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC071a-04
- Description: Traditional dance song played by Chambine with Timbila xylophone accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Phumla emlamjeni
- Church Choir, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Kirkwood f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298440 , vital:57701 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD099-03
- Description: Religious music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Kirkwood f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298440 , vital:57701 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD099-03
- Description: Religious music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Sele Ahom
- Church Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mackay's Nek sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/323372 , vital:60663 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD165A-13
- Description: Unaccompanied Church Hymn
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mackay's Nek sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/323372 , vital:60663 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD165A-13
- Description: Unaccompanied Church Hymn
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Thuma mina
- Church Choir, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Kirkwood f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298427 , vital:57700 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD099-02
- Description: Religious music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Kirkwood f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298427 , vital:57700 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD099-02
- Description: Religious music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Bangan Nkosi
- Church Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mackay's Nek sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/323350 , vital:60661 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD165A-11
- Description: Unaccompanied Church Hymn
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mackay's Nek sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/323350 , vital:60661 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD165A-11
- Description: Unaccompanied Church Hymn
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Title Not Specified
- Church Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mackay's Nek sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/323377 , vital:60664 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD165A-14
- Description: Unaccompanied Church Hymn
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mackay's Nek sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/323377 , vital:60664 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD165A-14
- Description: Unaccompanied Church Hymn
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Lumel'
- Church Choir, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Kirkwood f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298445 , vital:57702 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD099-04
- Description: Zionist Church Music with clapping, drum and rattle accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Kirkwood f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298445 , vital:57702 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD099-04
- Description: Zionist Church Music with clapping, drum and rattle accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Bangan Nkosi
- Church Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mackay's Nek sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/323363 , vital:60662 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD165A-12
- Description: Church Hymn with drum accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Church Choir , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mackay's Nek sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/323363 , vital:60662 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD165A-12
- Description: Church Hymn with drum accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
Changes in pictorial construction and types of representation which formed the basis of modern art
- Authors: Collins, Anne Marie
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 Art, French -- 19th century Art, French -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MFA
- Identifier: vital:2475 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010579
- Description: The erosion of traditional French academic methods of picture-construction, and the eclipse of hierarchical subject-matter, ensured the emergence of a diversity of new painting styles in France by 1900 and the possibility of even more drastic departures from tradition in the 20th century, particularly in the work of Picasso, from 1900 to 1914.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Collins, Anne Marie
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 Art, French -- 19th century Art, French -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MFA
- Identifier: vital:2475 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010579
- Description: The erosion of traditional French academic methods of picture-construction, and the eclipse of hierarchical subject-matter, ensured the emergence of a diversity of new painting styles in France by 1900 and the possibility of even more drastic departures from tradition in the 20th century, particularly in the work of Picasso, from 1900 to 1914.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1986
The "About to teach" course: an introductory orientation course for secondary teachers in training: an evaluation of student assessments
- Authors: Coughlan, Niall Sean
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Teachers -- Training of -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape High school teachers -- Training of -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1910 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007057
- Description: This piece of research is an attempt to evaluate the assessments made by secondary teachers in training of an introductory orientation course offered during the first seven weeks of the 1984 H.D. E. course in the Department of Education of Rhodes University. This course, the About To Teach (ATT) course, was introduced in an attempt to obviate some of the perceived problems that students experience in the initial months of their H.D.E. year. The course was first offered in 1982 and in both 1982 and 1983 it was assessed by the students. The evaluation of the assessments offered in those two years provided much of the background for this in-depth look at student assessments of the 1984 ATT course. Briefly, the course attempts to offer the students a stimulating, meaningful, interesting and enjoyable learning experience which will help them to orientate; prepare them adequately for their first teaching practice and the reception later of the offerings of the core theory discipline of Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology. The course itself is a piece of action research and its underlying assumptions are essentially humanistic in nature. Its planners have attempted to bracket as many assumptions as possible and to espouse only those assumptions which are basically positive in nature. It does not attempt to prescribe or offer any dogma which can or must be assessed in any formal sense; it attempts to meet the students from whatever stages in their development they are at when they arrive to commence their H.D.E. year; and it does not attempt to compel the students in any way whatsoever. It is a course which must stand or fall on its own merits. Since the researcher is himself an involved participant in the process, he felt that the completion of a detailed questionnaire and interviews with a sample of the students would be the most economical and the best means of obtaining data for as objective an analysis as possible. To further obviate the possibility of researcher bias all the responses collected have been included in the appendices so that the reader may satisfy him/herself that the interpretations made and conclusions drawn are reasonable. Briefly, the chief conclusion of this researcher is that the overwhelming majority of the students perceived the course as offering them a meaningful learning experience. In addition, it can be argued that the course is, in effect, a guidance course in that it appears to be preparing students for experiences which they still have to come across . Most are generally critical of other courses offered during the H.D . E. year and many make an appeal for, or suggest, a much more integrated approach along the lines of the ATT course . There is a definite appeal for a coherent H.D.E. experience which is meaningful and 'peoplecentred'. By no stretch of the imagination can the findings of this particular piece of research be generalised to any other context since it is very definitely specific in both context and setting. However the researcher is quietly confident that his conclusions and recommendations make a great deal of sense within the specific context of this study.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Coughlan, Niall Sean
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Teachers -- Training of -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape High school teachers -- Training of -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1910 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007057
- Description: This piece of research is an attempt to evaluate the assessments made by secondary teachers in training of an introductory orientation course offered during the first seven weeks of the 1984 H.D. E. course in the Department of Education of Rhodes University. This course, the About To Teach (ATT) course, was introduced in an attempt to obviate some of the perceived problems that students experience in the initial months of their H.D.E. year. The course was first offered in 1982 and in both 1982 and 1983 it was assessed by the students. The evaluation of the assessments offered in those two years provided much of the background for this in-depth look at student assessments of the 1984 ATT course. Briefly, the course attempts to offer the students a stimulating, meaningful, interesting and enjoyable learning experience which will help them to orientate; prepare them adequately for their first teaching practice and the reception later of the offerings of the core theory discipline of Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology. The course itself is a piece of action research and its underlying assumptions are essentially humanistic in nature. Its planners have attempted to bracket as many assumptions as possible and to espouse only those assumptions which are basically positive in nature. It does not attempt to prescribe or offer any dogma which can or must be assessed in any formal sense; it attempts to meet the students from whatever stages in their development they are at when they arrive to commence their H.D.E. year; and it does not attempt to compel the students in any way whatsoever. It is a course which must stand or fall on its own merits. Since the researcher is himself an involved participant in the process, he felt that the completion of a detailed questionnaire and interviews with a sample of the students would be the most economical and the best means of obtaining data for as objective an analysis as possible. To further obviate the possibility of researcher bias all the responses collected have been included in the appendices so that the reader may satisfy him/herself that the interpretations made and conclusions drawn are reasonable. Briefly, the chief conclusion of this researcher is that the overwhelming majority of the students perceived the course as offering them a meaningful learning experience. In addition, it can be argued that the course is, in effect, a guidance course in that it appears to be preparing students for experiences which they still have to come across . Most are generally critical of other courses offered during the H.D . E. year and many make an appeal for, or suggest, a much more integrated approach along the lines of the ATT course . There is a definite appeal for a coherent H.D.E. experience which is meaningful and 'peoplecentred'. By no stretch of the imagination can the findings of this particular piece of research be generalised to any other context since it is very definitely specific in both context and setting. However the researcher is quietly confident that his conclusions and recommendations make a great deal of sense within the specific context of this study.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1986
An assessment of hawking activities in Fingo Village, Grahamstown
- Authors: Davidson, Jean Hazell
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Peddlers -- South Africa , Informal sector (Economics) -- Grahamstown (South Africa)
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:4819 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005493 , Peddlers -- South Africa , Informal sector (Economics) -- Grahamstown (South Africa)
- Description: A number of issues in the thesis need to be clarified and will be discussed individually below. The term Third World, which is used in the thesis to describe developing countries in a disadvantageous economic position in relation to developed countries, is unsatisfactory. It is a collective term which combines countries with dissimilar cultures, ideologies and future prospects into one category (De Souza & Porter, 1974). Debate continues whether South Africa can be classified as a First or Third World country (Fair, 1982). Rogerson & Beavon (1980) indicate that South Africa can be described as dichotomous because it reflects characteristics of both First and Third World countries. In comparison De Souza & Porter (1974,1) include South Africa among the Third World countries, because four-fifths of the people have an income that is six times less than the income of the other fifth, and they live in a condition of underdevelopment. Conditions in Fingo Village resemble those described by De Souza & Porter (1974) and hence the results of the Fingo Village survey are compared with similar studies, elsewhere in the Third World. However, it would be naive to assume that Fingo Village is unaffected by development within the core regions of South Africa, which in many instances epitomize the First World. The term informal sector, used throughout the thesis, is also unsatisfactory, and debate continues as theorists attempt to find a more appropriate term. Santos (1979) indicates that the term informal sector is contentious, by placing it in single quotation marks. From the literature survey it emerged that the majority of authors did not follow Santos' convention (1979) and thus it seemed acceptable to use the term, informal sector, without placing it in single quotation marks. Chapter Two deals in-depth with the problem of defining the informal sector, and a working definition for the Fingo Village survey is presented in section 2.4.1. The informal sector embraces a wide diversity of economic activities. Due to the limited time and funds available, it was decided to isolate one aspect of this sector, namely, hawking. Sections 2.3 and 2.7 of Chapter Two indicate that hawking is an exemplary informal sector activity. All the different hawking types could not be given close attention and therefore, for practical purposes, it was decided to select one facet of hawking, namely, fruit and vegetable hawkers. Mobile fruit and vegetable hawkers were excluded from the study as it was impossible, during the mapping survey, to isolate a specific hawking site for each mobile hawker. Furthermore, a mobile hawker could easily be enumerated on more than one occasion, and hence a margin of error would automatically occur in the study. This was another reason for excluding mobile hawkers from the study and merely focusing upon static and semi-static fruit and vegetable hawkers. It is difficult to collect comprehensive quantitative data on informal sector activities (Preston-Whyte et al, 1984). The interviewer has to gain the confidence and trust of the subjects. The interviewer for the Fingo Village survey was a well known local personality and a man of some standing in the Black community. Daniel Sandi was the Secretary, of the Grahamstown Association (GRACA), which was reputed to have the support of the majority of the Black residents in Grahamstown until it was banned under the State of Emergency in July 1985. Daniel Sandi was also known for his contribution in literary circles as an epic poet. His previous experience conducting socio-economic surveys, as a researcher for the Border Council of Churches and as the Teba Research Assistant for the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, was also helpful. Sporadic unrest in the study area, from September 1984 and throughout 1985, prevented further fieldwork from being conducted in Fingo Village.
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- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Davidson, Jean Hazell
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Peddlers -- South Africa , Informal sector (Economics) -- Grahamstown (South Africa)
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:4819 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005493 , Peddlers -- South Africa , Informal sector (Economics) -- Grahamstown (South Africa)
- Description: A number of issues in the thesis need to be clarified and will be discussed individually below. The term Third World, which is used in the thesis to describe developing countries in a disadvantageous economic position in relation to developed countries, is unsatisfactory. It is a collective term which combines countries with dissimilar cultures, ideologies and future prospects into one category (De Souza & Porter, 1974). Debate continues whether South Africa can be classified as a First or Third World country (Fair, 1982). Rogerson & Beavon (1980) indicate that South Africa can be described as dichotomous because it reflects characteristics of both First and Third World countries. In comparison De Souza & Porter (1974,1) include South Africa among the Third World countries, because four-fifths of the people have an income that is six times less than the income of the other fifth, and they live in a condition of underdevelopment. Conditions in Fingo Village resemble those described by De Souza & Porter (1974) and hence the results of the Fingo Village survey are compared with similar studies, elsewhere in the Third World. However, it would be naive to assume that Fingo Village is unaffected by development within the core regions of South Africa, which in many instances epitomize the First World. The term informal sector, used throughout the thesis, is also unsatisfactory, and debate continues as theorists attempt to find a more appropriate term. Santos (1979) indicates that the term informal sector is contentious, by placing it in single quotation marks. From the literature survey it emerged that the majority of authors did not follow Santos' convention (1979) and thus it seemed acceptable to use the term, informal sector, without placing it in single quotation marks. Chapter Two deals in-depth with the problem of defining the informal sector, and a working definition for the Fingo Village survey is presented in section 2.4.1. The informal sector embraces a wide diversity of economic activities. Due to the limited time and funds available, it was decided to isolate one aspect of this sector, namely, hawking. Sections 2.3 and 2.7 of Chapter Two indicate that hawking is an exemplary informal sector activity. All the different hawking types could not be given close attention and therefore, for practical purposes, it was decided to select one facet of hawking, namely, fruit and vegetable hawkers. Mobile fruit and vegetable hawkers were excluded from the study as it was impossible, during the mapping survey, to isolate a specific hawking site for each mobile hawker. Furthermore, a mobile hawker could easily be enumerated on more than one occasion, and hence a margin of error would automatically occur in the study. This was another reason for excluding mobile hawkers from the study and merely focusing upon static and semi-static fruit and vegetable hawkers. It is difficult to collect comprehensive quantitative data on informal sector activities (Preston-Whyte et al, 1984). The interviewer has to gain the confidence and trust of the subjects. The interviewer for the Fingo Village survey was a well known local personality and a man of some standing in the Black community. Daniel Sandi was the Secretary, of the Grahamstown Association (GRACA), which was reputed to have the support of the majority of the Black residents in Grahamstown until it was banned under the State of Emergency in July 1985. Daniel Sandi was also known for his contribution in literary circles as an epic poet. His previous experience conducting socio-economic surveys, as a researcher for the Border Council of Churches and as the Teba Research Assistant for the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, was also helpful. Sporadic unrest in the study area, from September 1984 and throughout 1985, prevented further fieldwork from being conducted in Fingo Village.
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- Date Issued: 1986
Tempera painting: an investigation of the aesthetic and technical advantages of the medium
- Authors: De Bliquy, Leon Paul
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Painting -- Technique Tempura painting
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MFA
- Identifier: vital:2469 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009443
- Description: From Introduction: The balance between practical and theoretic components in the total submission bears relation to the title of this essay where aesthetic advantages are largely theoretical and where technical advantages refer mainly to the practical component. The historical significance of this structure is to be found in the earliest treatises on painting, Cenninni's treatment of painting as a purely practical matter is in accord with medieval tradition. His recipes are aligned according to the various individual techniques, tempera painting being the most significant to this essay. Practical recipes are interspersed with directions for the representation of various pictorial themes, and in the resultant conglomeration, the subdivisions are discernible only as basic premises. In contrast to him, the Renaissance authors beginning with Alberti make a significant innovation in that they divide their material into a theoretical and a practical part . The inter-relationship of practical and theoretical - aesthetic and technical aspects are un-avoidable when it comes down to realities. This is clearly illustrated in the notes of Leonardo da Vinci. Plans for the organization of the treatise are vaguely formulated .
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- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: De Bliquy, Leon Paul
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Painting -- Technique Tempura painting
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MFA
- Identifier: vital:2469 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009443
- Description: From Introduction: The balance between practical and theoretic components in the total submission bears relation to the title of this essay where aesthetic advantages are largely theoretical and where technical advantages refer mainly to the practical component. The historical significance of this structure is to be found in the earliest treatises on painting, Cenninni's treatment of painting as a purely practical matter is in accord with medieval tradition. His recipes are aligned according to the various individual techniques, tempera painting being the most significant to this essay. Practical recipes are interspersed with directions for the representation of various pictorial themes, and in the resultant conglomeration, the subdivisions are discernible only as basic premises. In contrast to him, the Renaissance authors beginning with Alberti make a significant innovation in that they divide their material into a theoretical and a practical part . The inter-relationship of practical and theoretical - aesthetic and technical aspects are un-avoidable when it comes down to realities. This is clearly illustrated in the notes of Leonardo da Vinci. Plans for the organization of the treatise are vaguely formulated .
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- Date Issued: 1986
The development and evaluation of a Nd:YAG laser incorporating an unstable resonator
- Authors: De Kock, Trevor Neil
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Nd-YAG lasers , Lasers -- Resonators , Laser beams
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: vital:5512 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008566 , Nd-YAG lasers , Lasers -- Resonators , Laser beams
- Description: Introduction: For approximately the last eight years the Laser Section of the National Physical Research Laboratory (NPRL) has been interested in inter alia, pulsed solid-state lasers and in particular, Nd:YAG. Investigations of various resonator types were undertaken with a view to the improvement of the laser parameters such as output energy, pulse width, beam quality and sensitivity to mirror misalignment. In 1980 a Nd: YAG laser employing a rotating prism Q-switch was constructed (Preussler (1980)). It involves rotating one of the two cavity reflectors so that they are parallel for only a brief instant in time. Typically the prism must rotate at a speed of 20 000 r.p.m. to ensure a single pulse output. Such lasers suffer from the tendency to emit multiple pulses, they are very noisy and they require frequent maintenance because of the short lifetime of the bearings. A resonator employing conventional curved mirrors and an electro-optical Q-switch was constructed in 1980 (Robertson & Preussler (1982)). In 1981 an electro-optically Q-swi tched laser making use of a crossed Porro-prism resonator was investigated due to its relative insensitivity to misalignment of the reflectors compared with the conventional mirror resonator (Nortier (1981)). Improvements in terms of output power, beam divergence and beam quality can be achieved by making use of a so-called unstable resonator. Such a laser has been investigated and is reported on in this study. Chapter 2 provides some background into laser theory and operation while chapter 3 deals with the theory of the unstable resonator. Chapter 4 provides details of the experimental equipment and techniques used in the work and chapter 5 discusses the evaluation of the project and results obtained.
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- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: De Kock, Trevor Neil
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Nd-YAG lasers , Lasers -- Resonators , Laser beams
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: vital:5512 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008566 , Nd-YAG lasers , Lasers -- Resonators , Laser beams
- Description: Introduction: For approximately the last eight years the Laser Section of the National Physical Research Laboratory (NPRL) has been interested in inter alia, pulsed solid-state lasers and in particular, Nd:YAG. Investigations of various resonator types were undertaken with a view to the improvement of the laser parameters such as output energy, pulse width, beam quality and sensitivity to mirror misalignment. In 1980 a Nd: YAG laser employing a rotating prism Q-switch was constructed (Preussler (1980)). It involves rotating one of the two cavity reflectors so that they are parallel for only a brief instant in time. Typically the prism must rotate at a speed of 20 000 r.p.m. to ensure a single pulse output. Such lasers suffer from the tendency to emit multiple pulses, they are very noisy and they require frequent maintenance because of the short lifetime of the bearings. A resonator employing conventional curved mirrors and an electro-optical Q-switch was constructed in 1980 (Robertson & Preussler (1982)). In 1981 an electro-optically Q-swi tched laser making use of a crossed Porro-prism resonator was investigated due to its relative insensitivity to misalignment of the reflectors compared with the conventional mirror resonator (Nortier (1981)). Improvements in terms of output power, beam divergence and beam quality can be achieved by making use of a so-called unstable resonator. Such a laser has been investigated and is reported on in this study. Chapter 2 provides some background into laser theory and operation while chapter 3 deals with the theory of the unstable resonator. Chapter 4 provides details of the experimental equipment and techniques used in the work and chapter 5 discusses the evaluation of the project and results obtained.
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- Date Issued: 1986
An analysis of the social and economic consequences of residential relocation arising out of the implementation of an agricultural development scheme in a rural Ciskei village
- Authors: De Wet, C J
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Black people -- Relocation -- South Africa -- Ciskei Ciskei (South Africa) -- Social life and customs Agricultural development projects -- South Africa -- Ciskei Chatha (Ciskei, South Africa) Ciskei (South Africa) -- Social conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2116 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008090
- Description: From preface: This dissertation is concerned with the impact of the implementation of a particular kind of agricultural development project, viz. Betterment Planning, upon a rural Black village in the Keiskammahoek Magisterial District of the Ciskei, in South Africa. The project was implemented in the mid-1960s, and involved the re-organisation of the village environment into demarcated arable, grazing and residential areas, which necessitated the villagers moving from their old, scattered residential clusters to several new, concentrated residential areas. This dissertation seeks to trace the consequences of this development project, and particularly the socio-economic consequences of the residential relocation that it involved.
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- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: De Wet, C J
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Black people -- Relocation -- South Africa -- Ciskei Ciskei (South Africa) -- Social life and customs Agricultural development projects -- South Africa -- Ciskei Chatha (Ciskei, South Africa) Ciskei (South Africa) -- Social conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2116 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008090
- Description: From preface: This dissertation is concerned with the impact of the implementation of a particular kind of agricultural development project, viz. Betterment Planning, upon a rural Black village in the Keiskammahoek Magisterial District of the Ciskei, in South Africa. The project was implemented in the mid-1960s, and involved the re-organisation of the village environment into demarcated arable, grazing and residential areas, which necessitated the villagers moving from their old, scattered residential clusters to several new, concentrated residential areas. This dissertation seeks to trace the consequences of this development project, and particularly the socio-economic consequences of the residential relocation that it involved.
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- Date Issued: 1986
Western influences on the Zulu system of personal naming
- Authors: Dickens, Sybil Maureen
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Zulu language -- Etymology -- Names , Names, Personal -- Zulu , Names, Zulu
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2378 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007158 , Zulu language -- Etymology -- Names , Names, Personal -- Zulu , Names, Zulu
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- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Dickens, Sybil Maureen
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Zulu language -- Etymology -- Names , Names, Personal -- Zulu , Names, Zulu
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2378 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007158 , Zulu language -- Etymology -- Names , Names, Personal -- Zulu , Names, Zulu
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- Date Issued: 1986
Financing university education in South Africa: the case for a student loan scheme
- Authors: Dollery, Brian
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Student loan funds -- South Africa Student aid -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/1752 , vital:20222 , ISBN 0868101443
- Description: The fact that not all claims on the central government enjoy equal status in the eyes of policymakers has been vividly illustrated by the recent experience of South African universities. Indeed, it is not alarmist to describe the present financial position of these institutions as approaching a state of crisis. Consequently, there is an urgent need for members of the university community in this country to re-examine the whole question of university finance. The present paper attempts to address precisely this issue, and proposes a radical alternative to the current method of finance. A caveat must be added at the outset. First, the analysis will be restricted to universities per se although it could be extended mutatis mutandis to include some other institutions within the tertiary education sector, and secondly, the primary focus will fall on developing a broad framework rather than on a detailed examination of the minutiae of university funding. Section I evaluates the case for public intervention in the provision of university education, and the various alternative approaches to the problem of university finance are outlined in Section II. A specific proposal for the financing of university education is set out in Section III, together with a rebuttal of some of the more important objections to the scheme. The paper concludes with an overview of the central arguments in Section IV. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Dollery, Brian
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Student loan funds -- South Africa Student aid -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/1752 , vital:20222 , ISBN 0868101443
- Description: The fact that not all claims on the central government enjoy equal status in the eyes of policymakers has been vividly illustrated by the recent experience of South African universities. Indeed, it is not alarmist to describe the present financial position of these institutions as approaching a state of crisis. Consequently, there is an urgent need for members of the university community in this country to re-examine the whole question of university finance. The present paper attempts to address precisely this issue, and proposes a radical alternative to the current method of finance. A caveat must be added at the outset. First, the analysis will be restricted to universities per se although it could be extended mutatis mutandis to include some other institutions within the tertiary education sector, and secondly, the primary focus will fall on developing a broad framework rather than on a detailed examination of the minutiae of university funding. Section I evaluates the case for public intervention in the provision of university education, and the various alternative approaches to the problem of university finance are outlined in Section II. A specific proposal for the financing of university education is set out in Section III, together with a rebuttal of some of the more important objections to the scheme. The paper concludes with an overview of the central arguments in Section IV. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1986