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Towards a technology-enhanced blended approach for teaching Arabic for Shari’ah purposes (ASP) in the light of the South African national qualifications framework
(International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 2021)The study investigates the use of a blended learning approach for teaching Arabic as a foreign language at a South African Islamic college in the light of the South African National Qualifications Framework level ... -
Towards an approach to development as mission: the category of personhood as addressed by Amartya Sen?
(Stellenbosch University, 2014)This paper is concerned with the role of personhood in development. I will be looking at the extent to which the influential model of development proposed by Amartya Sen does justice to the category of personhood. I will ... -
Towards an archaeology of Dusklands
(Institute for the Study of English in Africa, 2011)This essay seeks to explore the question of origins: the beginnings of the literary career of arguably South Africa's most significant author, and the development of a form of authorship that was, at its inception, situated ... -
Towards an ecological reformulation of the Christian doctrine of sin
(University of Kwazulu-Natal School of Theology, 2005)This essay defends the significance of the Christian doctrine of sin with reference to the many contemporary manifestations of evil, including the problems of environmental devastation, environmental injustuce and rampant ... -
Traditional health practitioners’ perceptions, herbal treatment and management of HIV and related opportunistic infections
(BMC, 2014)In South Africa, traditional health practitioners’ (THPs) explanatory frameworks concerning illness aetiologies are much researched. However there is a gap in the literature on how THPs understand HIV-related opportunistic ... -
Transitivity and the narrator's role in selected TRC testimonies
(Stellenbosch University, 2006)This paper seeks to explore how two different narrators at a hearing of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) represent the same set of events. With the use of analytical concepts and frameworks drawn ... -
Translanguaging and English-African language mother tongues as linguistic dispensation in teaching and learning in a black township school in Cape Town
(Routledge, 2018)Drawing on the notion of translanguaging, I show how learners in a Black township secondary school in Cape Town use their multilingual repertoire to achieve power, agency and voice. I use the conceptualisation of the ... -
Translating conceptual qur’anic metaphor: A cogno-translational approach
(Richtmann Publishing Ltd, 2021)This study will investigate metaphor translation as a natural phenomenon. It will analyze some of the problems involving the translation of metaphorical expressions in two Qur’anic translations, namely, Yusuf Ali's The ... -
Transplant thought-experiments: Two costly mistakes in discounting them
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)‘Transplant’ thought-experiments, in which the cerebrum is moved from one body to another have featured in a number of recent discussions in the personal identity literature. Once taken as offering confirmation of some ... -
Travelling home: Diasporic dis-locations of space and place in Tendai Huchu's The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician
(SAGE Publications, 2018)The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician, a novel by Zimbabwean diasporic writer Tendai Huchu, adds to a growing body of global immigrant fiction. Huchu’s novel concerning Zimbabwean émigrés in the United Kingdom ... -
Traversing ethical imperatives: Learning from stories from the field
(Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2018)In this chapter we integrate the lessons that are shared across this handbook through the rich, storied examples of ethics in critical research. We outline central themes to the handbook that cut across all of the sections. ... -
The “tricky business” of dual use school community libraries: A case study in rural South Africa
(Walter de Gruyter, 2011)The article describes an interpretive case study of a group of six dual use school community libraries in one remote region of South Africa. Its focus is rather more on the libraries as school libraries than public libraries. ... -
TV is the devil, the devil is on TV: Wild religion and wild media in South Africa
(Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa, 2018)In keeping with trends in the academy and the rapidly increasing presence, power, and persuasion of digital and electronic media on the African continent and in the global economy, the study of religion and the media in ... -
Twelve theses on the place of Christian theology in multi-disciplinary conversations
(SUN, 2015)I dare to offer the following reflections on the place of Christian theology in multi-disciplinary conversations in order to invite further reflection. -
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Routledge, 2017)This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive ... -
Un/making difference through performance and mediation in contemporary Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies grew out of a panel we organized at the European Conference on African Studies in Lisbon in June 2013. Our starting point was the observation of a massive revival ... -
Uncontained and the Constraints of Historicism as Method: A reply to Mario Pissarra
(Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI), 2013)Mario Pissarra’s rigorous and considered critical review of Uncontained: Opening the Community Arts Project archive (2012) marks a significant contribution to starting a discussion that the book and exhibition aimed to ... -
Uncovering and negotiating barriers to intercultural communication at Greenmarket Square, Cape Town's 'world in miniature': an insider's perspective
(Stellenbosch University, 2010)Intercultural communication (ICC) is one of the most relevant fields for investigation in postcolonial Africa and post-apartheid South Africa, given the freedom of movement between African countries and the wide range of ... -
Under construction: Toward a theory and praxis of queer peacebuilding
(Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, 2023)| This article explores what queer as a concept brings to peacebuilding, presenting a guiding framework and introduction for a special issue on queer peacebuilding. It offers an initial approach to the topic, which means ... -
Understanding ourselves better
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)INTRODUCTION: Marya Schechtman and Grant Gillett acknowledge that my case in ‘The misunderstandings of the Self-Understanding View’ (2013) has some merits, but neither is moved to change their position and accept that the ...