Consumer health informatics in the information age and beyond
- Authors: Pottas, Dalenca
- Subjects: Medical informatics , Information technology , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20757 , vital:29386
- Description: This paper reviews current and future trends and challenges in the field of consumer health informatics. Emergent innovations driving consumer health informatics in the information age include devices, tools and applications supporting personalised healthcare, electronic personal health record (PHR) systems and a plethora of tools in the health social media domain. Within this domain, a new kind of social media citizen, the consumer specialist or patient opinion leader, is taking the lead in online communities of patients. A new generation of personal health records combining PHRs and social media is emerging, even though pervasive adoption and use of PHRs remains elusive. The accuracy of information, security and privacy of personal health information, legislative matters and the digital divide remain recurring challenges of consumer health informatics. In future, PHR vendors will have to address the lack of espousal of PHRs in innovative ways to provide a compelling case for adoption. The continued uptake of health social media necessitates efforts to understand, through longitudinal studies, precisely who the users are, what they use it for and how it contributes to the achievement of both personal and public health outcomes. Health information consumers, of varying levels of techno-literacy, needs and preferences, must be assisted to move from simply accessing information to distilling relevant and credible information and making informed decisions. Further research is required to understand the changing relationships between patients and healthcare providers and how consumer health information technologies can best support these. There is a need to evaluate the effectiveness of consumer health information technologies to inform both public policy and the next generation of tools, technologies and artefacts that could better facilitate improved health outcomes. Lastly, more effort is required to erode digital inequalities. As we move into a future emphasising both the global and the individual, accelerated connectedness and speed of change, consumer health informatics must respond such that it remains germane and amplifies the value that can be gained by all stakeholders.
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- Authors: Pottas, Dalenca
- Subjects: Medical informatics , Information technology , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20757 , vital:29386
- Description: This paper reviews current and future trends and challenges in the field of consumer health informatics. Emergent innovations driving consumer health informatics in the information age include devices, tools and applications supporting personalised healthcare, electronic personal health record (PHR) systems and a plethora of tools in the health social media domain. Within this domain, a new kind of social media citizen, the consumer specialist or patient opinion leader, is taking the lead in online communities of patients. A new generation of personal health records combining PHRs and social media is emerging, even though pervasive adoption and use of PHRs remains elusive. The accuracy of information, security and privacy of personal health information, legislative matters and the digital divide remain recurring challenges of consumer health informatics. In future, PHR vendors will have to address the lack of espousal of PHRs in innovative ways to provide a compelling case for adoption. The continued uptake of health social media necessitates efforts to understand, through longitudinal studies, precisely who the users are, what they use it for and how it contributes to the achievement of both personal and public health outcomes. Health information consumers, of varying levels of techno-literacy, needs and preferences, must be assisted to move from simply accessing information to distilling relevant and credible information and making informed decisions. Further research is required to understand the changing relationships between patients and healthcare providers and how consumer health information technologies can best support these. There is a need to evaluate the effectiveness of consumer health information technologies to inform both public policy and the next generation of tools, technologies and artefacts that could better facilitate improved health outcomes. Lastly, more effort is required to erode digital inequalities. As we move into a future emphasising both the global and the individual, accelerated connectedness and speed of change, consumer health informatics must respond such that it remains germane and amplifies the value that can be gained by all stakeholders.
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Local economic development: disseminating global best practices to affect futuristic thinking in SA
- Authors: Perks, Sandra
- Subjects: Economic development , Economic development -- South Africa , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20966 , vital:29423
- Description: The aim of Local Economic Development (LED) is to ensure that the economy of a community, region or country grows faster than the population, so that there can be surplus resources for future expansion (Rucker, Kinnett & Barbash 2012). This suggests that LED is more than economic development at local level. LED is often not viewed from an economic perspective but from a political perspective. Birkhölzer (2005:3) outlines four possible political LED viewpoints. The first perspective is “development from above” with an authoritarian state dictating to regional government and local authorities. This perspective has been proven flawed when political or economic turbulences occur. The second perspective is “development from outside” with reliance on outside investors to bring into the country the necessary resources, mostly funding. This perspective is risky from a sustainability point of view. The third perspective is the “wait and see” where migration occurs if there are problems. This perspective is equally flawed as it is becoming increasingly difficult to migrate because it is so costly, and also finding the right place to go can prove to be problematic. The last perspective is the “development from within” where people play a key role, and do not rely on government or the economy to serve their needs or solve their problems; this points to self-sufficiency.
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- Authors: Perks, Sandra
- Subjects: Economic development , Economic development -- South Africa , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20966 , vital:29423
- Description: The aim of Local Economic Development (LED) is to ensure that the economy of a community, region or country grows faster than the population, so that there can be surplus resources for future expansion (Rucker, Kinnett & Barbash 2012). This suggests that LED is more than economic development at local level. LED is often not viewed from an economic perspective but from a political perspective. Birkhölzer (2005:3) outlines four possible political LED viewpoints. The first perspective is “development from above” with an authoritarian state dictating to regional government and local authorities. This perspective has been proven flawed when political or economic turbulences occur. The second perspective is “development from outside” with reliance on outside investors to bring into the country the necessary resources, mostly funding. This perspective is risky from a sustainability point of view. The third perspective is the “wait and see” where migration occurs if there are problems. This perspective is equally flawed as it is becoming increasingly difficult to migrate because it is so costly, and also finding the right place to go can prove to be problematic. The last perspective is the “development from within” where people play a key role, and do not rely on government or the economy to serve their needs or solve their problems; this points to self-sufficiency.
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Old cemetery
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: f-sa , not available 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Cemeteries -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Maps Maps , South Africa History 1909-1961
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115727 , vital:34219 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , MP1861
- Description: Municipality of the city of Grahamstown. Parks. Old cemetery. Feb 1987. Showing Wesleyan, Anglican, Baptis, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: f-sa , not available 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Cemeteries -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Maps Maps , South Africa History 1909-1961
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115727 , vital:34219 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , MP1861
- Description: Municipality of the city of Grahamstown. Parks. Old cemetery. Feb 1987. Showing Wesleyan, Anglican, Baptis, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic.
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- Date Issued: 1987
Grahamstown : a sample of nonwhites living in independent households within the official white area
- Authors: Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: f-sa , 2 cm = 2000 yards 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Grahamstown (South Africa) Maps , Grahamstown (South Africa) Street maps , South Africa History 1909-1961 , South Africa History 1836-1909
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120809 , vital:34933 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , T654_13
- Description: Map 13 in the map album accompanying the thesis by Hilstan Lett Watts, "Grahamstown : a socio-ecological study of a small South African town", Rhodes University thesis, 1957. Map signed 1955. The data are from the sample survey of the European (white) area of Grahamstown.
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- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: f-sa , 2 cm = 2000 yards 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Grahamstown (South Africa) Maps , Grahamstown (South Africa) Street maps , South Africa History 1909-1961 , South Africa History 1836-1909
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120809 , vital:34933 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , T654_13
- Description: Map 13 in the map album accompanying the thesis by Hilstan Lett Watts, "Grahamstown : a socio-ecological study of a small South African town", Rhodes University thesis, 1957. Map signed 1955. The data are from the sample survey of the European (white) area of Grahamstown.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Philosophy as laughter
- Authors: Hurst, Andrea
- Subjects: Laughter -- Philosophy , Philosophy -- Study and teaching , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/37103 , vital:34106
- Description: Contextualising my current philosophical preoccupations within the framework of my understanding of my task as a philosopher, I engage with the proposition that philosophers have a double task: firstly learning (and teaching) how to think, and relatedly, unexpectedly, learning/teaching how to laugh.
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- Authors: Hurst, Andrea
- Subjects: Laughter -- Philosophy , Philosophy -- Study and teaching , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/37103 , vital:34106
- Description: Contextualising my current philosophical preoccupations within the framework of my understanding of my task as a philosopher, I engage with the proposition that philosophers have a double task: firstly learning (and teaching) how to think, and relatedly, unexpectedly, learning/teaching how to laugh.
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Drugs: cures or curse?
- McCarthy, T J (Terence John)
- Authors: McCarthy, T J (Terence John)
- Subjects: Drugs , Pharmacy , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21887 , vital:29798
- Description: With Pharmacy established in our midst at UPE it seems fitting to speak about drugs, since the name pharmacy is derived from pharmakon, the Greek word for drug. The derivation of apteker from the English word apothecary and the German Apotheker is also relevant. Interestingly the Greek root for apothecary means storekeeper, so perhaps things have not changed much in the last few centuries. However, the use of drugs precedes the Greeks, English or Germans by many centuries, and both the Chinese (over 2000 years BC) and the Babylonians (over 4000 years BC) had drug lists or pharmacopoeias. In fact the Babylonians also had a strict medical code and I recall reading that "if the surgeons's knife should slip, the surgeon's hand will be cut off" which seems far better than the modern idea of trying to sue the surgeon after the event, but must have seriously hampered the recruitment of surgeons in those days.
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- Authors: McCarthy, T J (Terence John)
- Subjects: Drugs , Pharmacy , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21887 , vital:29798
- Description: With Pharmacy established in our midst at UPE it seems fitting to speak about drugs, since the name pharmacy is derived from pharmakon, the Greek word for drug. The derivation of apteker from the English word apothecary and the German Apotheker is also relevant. Interestingly the Greek root for apothecary means storekeeper, so perhaps things have not changed much in the last few centuries. However, the use of drugs precedes the Greeks, English or Germans by many centuries, and both the Chinese (over 2000 years BC) and the Babylonians (over 4000 years BC) had drug lists or pharmacopoeias. In fact the Babylonians also had a strict medical code and I recall reading that "if the surgeons's knife should slip, the surgeon's hand will be cut off" which seems far better than the modern idea of trying to sue the surgeon after the event, but must have seriously hampered the recruitment of surgeons in those days.
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A general plan of Cradock
- Hopley, F H, Aling, Chiappini and Rorders
- Authors: Hopley, F H , Aling, Chiappini and Rorders
- Date: 1871
- Subjects: f-sa , 1 inch = 150 Rhyneland feet 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Cradock(South Africa) Maps , South Africa History 1836-1909 Maps
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105356 , vital:32504 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , MP291
- Description: A general plan of Cradock taken from the plans of surveyors Aling, Chiappini and Rorders by F.H. Hopley, 1851? Manuscript copy of original.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1871
- Authors: Hopley, F H , Aling, Chiappini and Rorders
- Date: 1871
- Subjects: f-sa , 1 inch = 150 Rhyneland feet 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Cradock(South Africa) Maps , South Africa History 1836-1909 Maps
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105356 , vital:32504 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , MP291
- Description: A general plan of Cradock taken from the plans of surveyors Aling, Chiappini and Rorders by F.H. Hopley, 1851? Manuscript copy of original.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1871
City of Grahamstown : electricity scheme
- Authors: Iverach, J.
- Date: 1932
- Subjects: f-sa , 1 inch = 600 Cape feet 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Grahamstown (South Africa) Maps , South Africa History 1909-1961 Maps
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105638 , vital:32551 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , MP177
- Description: City of Grahamstown electricity scheme; compiled in the City Electrical Engineer's office ; signed 11/3/32, J. Iverach.
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Iverach, J.
- Date: 1932
- Subjects: f-sa , 1 inch = 600 Cape feet 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Grahamstown (South Africa) Maps , South Africa History 1909-1961 Maps
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105638 , vital:32551 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , MP177
- Description: City of Grahamstown electricity scheme; compiled in the City Electrical Engineer's office ; signed 11/3/32, J. Iverach.
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Relationship marketing in retail banks: superannuated concept?
- Authors: Tait, Madele
- Subjects: Relationship marketing , Banks and banking , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20923 , vital:29418
- Description: All business is based on relationships. The firm only has to make them meaningful for its customers – provided that the customers want this (Grönroos 1994). Relationship marketing concerns the facilitation and managing of the relationships between the business and its customers and was developed as a response to the realisation that businesses were spending vast resources in time and money to attract new customers but very little on retaining existing ones. Relationship marketing is particularly relevant when a customer has alternative service providers to choose from, when the customer makes the selection decision and when there is an ongoing desire or need for a product or service, such as in the banking industry (Morgan & Hunt 1999).
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- Authors: Tait, Madele
- Subjects: Relationship marketing , Banks and banking , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20923 , vital:29418
- Description: All business is based on relationships. The firm only has to make them meaningful for its customers – provided that the customers want this (Grönroos 1994). Relationship marketing concerns the facilitation and managing of the relationships between the business and its customers and was developed as a response to the realisation that businesses were spending vast resources in time and money to attract new customers but very little on retaining existing ones. Relationship marketing is particularly relevant when a customer has alternative service providers to choose from, when the customer makes the selection decision and when there is an ongoing desire or need for a product or service, such as in the banking industry (Morgan & Hunt 1999).
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Key drivers of change and their implications for Construction Management in the next decade: an eclectic approach
- Authors: Shakantu, Winston
- Subjects: Change , Construction industry , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20912 , vital:29416
- Description: I chose to look at ‘key drivers of change’ as change is the only constant in our lives; its winds keep blowing in perpetuity. Drivers of change are factors that induce or compel organisations to modify their actions in response to change. The drivers of change originate mainly in the macro-environment and in most cases in the micro-environment. As for why ‘implications for construction management research’ it is because of the four areas of responsibility for an academic, that is, Teaching, Research, Engagement and Administration, research informs all the four. Therefore, it seems to be the logical departure point for a professorial exposition.
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- Authors: Shakantu, Winston
- Subjects: Change , Construction industry , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20912 , vital:29416
- Description: I chose to look at ‘key drivers of change’ as change is the only constant in our lives; its winds keep blowing in perpetuity. Drivers of change are factors that induce or compel organisations to modify their actions in response to change. The drivers of change originate mainly in the macro-environment and in most cases in the micro-environment. As for why ‘implications for construction management research’ it is because of the four areas of responsibility for an academic, that is, Teaching, Research, Engagement and Administration, research informs all the four. Therefore, it seems to be the logical departure point for a professorial exposition.
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Grahamstown : heights of buildings in the white area
- Authors: Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: f-sa , 2 cm = 2000 yards 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Grahamstown (South Africa) Maps , Grahamstown (South Africa) Street maps , South Africa History 1909-1961 , South Africa History 1836-1909
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121235 , vital:34991 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , T654_18
- Description: Map 18 in the map album accompanying the thesis by Hilstan Lett Watts, "Grahamstown : a socio-ecological study of a small South African town", Rhodes University thesis, 1957. Map signed 1955. Data are based on a special survey conducted by the investigator. A complete and not a sample survey was made.
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- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: f-sa , 2 cm = 2000 yards 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Grahamstown (South Africa) Maps , Grahamstown (South Africa) Street maps , South Africa History 1909-1961 , South Africa History 1836-1909
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/121235 , vital:34991 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , T654_18
- Description: Map 18 in the map album accompanying the thesis by Hilstan Lett Watts, "Grahamstown : a socio-ecological study of a small South African town", Rhodes University thesis, 1957. Map signed 1955. Data are based on a special survey conducted by the investigator. A complete and not a sample survey was made.
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- Date Issued: 1957
Happiness: a business model
- Authors: Cullen, Margaret
- Subjects: Happiness , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20956 , vital:29422
- Description: The concept of happiness might appear elusive. It has been extensively analysed by philosophers and historians, who agree that the concept of happiness in antiquity centered on good luck and fortune. Something beyond human agency and therefore controlled by the Gods (McMahon, 2006).Today, happiness is viewed as something over which you can have control and something that can be pursued (Oishi, 2012).
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- Authors: Cullen, Margaret
- Subjects: Happiness , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20956 , vital:29422
- Description: The concept of happiness might appear elusive. It has been extensively analysed by philosophers and historians, who agree that the concept of happiness in antiquity centered on good luck and fortune. Something beyond human agency and therefore controlled by the Gods (McMahon, 2006).Today, happiness is viewed as something over which you can have control and something that can be pursued (Oishi, 2012).
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Innovation through education: rediscovering the lost generation
- Authors: Pieterse, Koot
- Subjects: Business incubators , Entrepreneurship , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20889 , vital:29411
- Description: Innovation implies the generation as well as the practical implementation of new ideas. These ideas could appear as new product opportunities, new markets or new management systems and business schools are ideally situated to promote their exploitation and implementation. This study emphasises the need for business schools to elevate innovation to one of the core values in their mission. The need for innovation in the local business environment is explored along with reasons why these opportunities have not always been pursued with the required vigour. The results of a literature study are represented, that demonstrate what initiatives on the incorporation of innovation into their activities have been taken by a selection of business schools around the world and the study is concluded by exploring similar opportunities open to the Business School of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
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- Authors: Pieterse, Koot
- Subjects: Business incubators , Entrepreneurship , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20889 , vital:29411
- Description: Innovation implies the generation as well as the practical implementation of new ideas. These ideas could appear as new product opportunities, new markets or new management systems and business schools are ideally situated to promote their exploitation and implementation. This study emphasises the need for business schools to elevate innovation to one of the core values in their mission. The need for innovation in the local business environment is explored along with reasons why these opportunities have not always been pursued with the required vigour. The results of a literature study are represented, that demonstrate what initiatives on the incorporation of innovation into their activities have been taken by a selection of business schools around the world and the study is concluded by exploring similar opportunities open to the Business School of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
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Structure and agency in the age of climate change
- Authors: Cherry, Janet
- Subjects: South Africa -- Economic conditions , South Africa -- Social conditions , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21033 , vital:29429
- Description: What I will present here is based on my grappling over the past three decades with one of the central problems of social science – the relationship between social structure and human agency. This is not a new problem for social scientists; from Karl Marx, who understood that human beings make history, but not in circumstances of their choosing; to the French structuralists who conceived the term ‘relative autonomy’ and ‘overdetermination’; to Anthony Giddens’ ‘structuration theory’ and other contemporary sociologists. What is new are the changing physical circumstances of the world in which we live, which mean that human society can no longer afford to analyse ourselves and our social, political and economic systems independently of the natural world.
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- Authors: Cherry, Janet
- Subjects: South Africa -- Economic conditions , South Africa -- Social conditions , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21033 , vital:29429
- Description: What I will present here is based on my grappling over the past three decades with one of the central problems of social science – the relationship between social structure and human agency. This is not a new problem for social scientists; from Karl Marx, who understood that human beings make history, but not in circumstances of their choosing; to the French structuralists who conceived the term ‘relative autonomy’ and ‘overdetermination’; to Anthony Giddens’ ‘structuration theory’ and other contemporary sociologists. What is new are the changing physical circumstances of the world in which we live, which mean that human society can no longer afford to analyse ourselves and our social, political and economic systems independently of the natural world.
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Grahamstown : the extent of the town in 1863
- Authors: Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: f-sa , 2 cm = 2000 yards 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Grahamstown (South Africa) Maps , Grahamstown (South Africa) Road maps , South Africa History 1909-1961 , South Africa History 1836-1909
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120606 , vital:34913 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , T654_3
- Description: Map 3 in the map album accompanying the thesis by Hilstan Lett Watts, "Grahamstown : a socio-ecological study of a small South African town", Rhodes University thesis, 1957. Map signed 1955. Based on an original map in the Cory Library, Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: f-sa , 2 cm = 2000 yards 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Grahamstown (South Africa) Maps , Grahamstown (South Africa) Road maps , South Africa History 1909-1961 , South Africa History 1836-1909
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120606 , vital:34913 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , T654_3
- Description: Map 3 in the map album accompanying the thesis by Hilstan Lett Watts, "Grahamstown : a socio-ecological study of a small South African town", Rhodes University thesis, 1957. Map signed 1955. Based on an original map in the Cory Library, Rhodes University.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
SEK Mqhayi in the 21st Century: Mzantsi youth ideologies within the African renaissance paradigm for sustainable economic and political development
- Authors: Saule, Ncedile
- Subjects: Pan-Africanism , Mqhayi, S E K , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21011 , vital:29427
- Description: I am advancing a celebratory synopsis of Mqhayi, uMzima, uBhomoyi kaCedume at a time when the South African contemporary society is attempting to restructure itself in order to regain lost values before it can successfully and rationally embrace values of other people. In my presentation, I have mindfully taken cognisance of the plight of the so called lost generation, especially among our youth, those who have become strangers in their own land – no language, only misguided and distorted cultural values, no self, distorted history - this of course because of indoctrinations of some psycho-socio-histori-cultural and political imperatives. Strangely enough these are some of the issues that SEK Mqhayi warns us about in his creative works and has made efforts for us to see, but unfortunately no one listened or saw anything. Now that we “have the truth but denied the truth and now that we have the light, but we sit in darkness, Shivering, benighted in the bright noon-day sun,” and now that we are all blind, I think, this evening is the right time to see.
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- Authors: Saule, Ncedile
- Subjects: Pan-Africanism , Mqhayi, S E K , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21011 , vital:29427
- Description: I am advancing a celebratory synopsis of Mqhayi, uMzima, uBhomoyi kaCedume at a time when the South African contemporary society is attempting to restructure itself in order to regain lost values before it can successfully and rationally embrace values of other people. In my presentation, I have mindfully taken cognisance of the plight of the so called lost generation, especially among our youth, those who have become strangers in their own land – no language, only misguided and distorted cultural values, no self, distorted history - this of course because of indoctrinations of some psycho-socio-histori-cultural and political imperatives. Strangely enough these are some of the issues that SEK Mqhayi warns us about in his creative works and has made efforts for us to see, but unfortunately no one listened or saw anything. Now that we “have the truth but denied the truth and now that we have the light, but we sit in darkness, Shivering, benighted in the bright noon-day sun,” and now that we are all blind, I think, this evening is the right time to see.
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Grahamstown : some social problems , 1947-1951
- Authors: Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: f-sa , 2 cm = 2000 yards 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Grahamstown (South Africa) Maps , Grahamstown (South Africa) Street maps , South Africa History 1909-1961 , South Africa History 1836-1909
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120746 , vital:34927 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , T654_9
- Description: Map 9 in the map album accompanying the thesis by Hilstan Lett Watts, "Grahamstown : a socio-ecological study of a small South African town", Rhodes University thesis, 1957. Map signed 1955. Data obtained from the Department of Social Welfare's Office in Grahamstown, and school records of the Cape Provincial Education Department ; also from the Magistrate's Court records.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Watts, Hilstan Lett, 1929-
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: f-sa , 2 cm = 2000 yards 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Grahamstown (South Africa) Maps , Grahamstown (South Africa) Street maps , South Africa History 1909-1961 , South Africa History 1836-1909
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/120746 , vital:34927 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , T654_9
- Description: Map 9 in the map album accompanying the thesis by Hilstan Lett Watts, "Grahamstown : a socio-ecological study of a small South African town", Rhodes University thesis, 1957. Map signed 1955. Data obtained from the Department of Social Welfare's Office in Grahamstown, and school records of the Cape Provincial Education Department ; also from the Magistrate's Court records.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1957
Discourse, cinema and desubjectification: from Foucault to Deleuze and beyond.
- Authors: Konik, Adrian
- Subjects: Philosophy , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , article , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/31594 , vital:31617
- Description: To be clear, this was not philosophy as a discipline, which like all canonical edifices can come across as weighty, dusty and extremely boring; especially when it rather arrogantly assumes the position of arbiter of truth, and tries to determine what everybody else can or cannot think, or what they should or should not say. Rather, what I encountered again in that Honors-level philosophy module was something that I had glimpsed during my undergraduate studies, but which I had yet to fully appreciate, namely an approach to thinking that was also an approach to life, on the part of certain people who, in their time, had to a large extent philosophized privately as they carried out their many other duties, or philosophized outside of the academy, or remained on the margins of academic philosophy – men like Marcus Aurelius, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Benedictus Spinoza.
- Full Text:
- Authors: Konik, Adrian
- Subjects: Philosophy , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , article , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/31594 , vital:31617
- Description: To be clear, this was not philosophy as a discipline, which like all canonical edifices can come across as weighty, dusty and extremely boring; especially when it rather arrogantly assumes the position of arbiter of truth, and tries to determine what everybody else can or cannot think, or what they should or should not say. Rather, what I encountered again in that Honors-level philosophy module was something that I had glimpsed during my undergraduate studies, but which I had yet to fully appreciate, namely an approach to thinking that was also an approach to life, on the part of certain people who, in their time, had to a large extent philosophized privately as they carried out their many other duties, or philosophized outside of the academy, or remained on the margins of academic philosophy – men like Marcus Aurelius, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Benedictus Spinoza.
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Two decades of curriculum transformation: what have we learnt and where do we go from here?
- Authors: Blignaut, Sylvan
- Subjects: Curriculum change -- South Africa , Education -- South Africa , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/16076 , vital:28318
- Description: In this lecture, I will revisit the implementation of a new curriculum in South Africa’s schooling system and provide a brief overview of why curriculum change is so complex and fraught with difficulties. I will argue that an important reason for the failure of curriculum implementation could be ascribed to a relative neglect by policymakers of “teacher landscapes” or the beliefs teachers have about teaching. I will argue that it “matters what teachers think and do” and if policymakers do not take account of this reality, successful curriculum implementation will remain a challenge.
- Full Text:
- Authors: Blignaut, Sylvan
- Subjects: Curriculum change -- South Africa , Education -- South Africa , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/16076 , vital:28318
- Description: In this lecture, I will revisit the implementation of a new curriculum in South Africa’s schooling system and provide a brief overview of why curriculum change is so complex and fraught with difficulties. I will argue that an important reason for the failure of curriculum implementation could be ascribed to a relative neglect by policymakers of “teacher landscapes” or the beliefs teachers have about teaching. I will argue that it “matters what teachers think and do” and if policymakers do not take account of this reality, successful curriculum implementation will remain a challenge.
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Sketch of the lands, the property of the Free Church and Charles Stretch
- Stretch, Charles Lennox, 1797-1882
- Authors: Stretch, Charles Lennox, 1797-1882
- Date: 1846
- Subjects: f-sa , not stated 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Lovedale Institution Maps , Eastern Cape South Africa Maps , Missions -- South Africa History Maps , South Africa History 1836-1909 Maps
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/108957 , vital:33043 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , MP36(MP188)
- Description: Sketch of the lands, the property of the Free Church and Charles Stretch as the grant appeared when Caffraria was invaded by the British troops on 9th of April 1846; [drawn by] C.L. Stretch.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1846
- Authors: Stretch, Charles Lennox, 1797-1882
- Date: 1846
- Subjects: f-sa , not stated 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Lovedale Institution Maps , Eastern Cape South Africa Maps , Missions -- South Africa History Maps , South Africa History 1836-1909 Maps
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/108957 , vital:33043 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , MP36(MP188)
- Description: Sketch of the lands, the property of the Free Church and Charles Stretch as the grant appeared when Caffraria was invaded by the British troops on 9th of April 1846; [drawn by] C.L. Stretch.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1846