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Emotion, voice and agency: exploring the written discourses of some township women in South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)This paper is an analysis of the discourses and attitudes that emerged from a set of daily journals kept by a particular group of township women during a training course for domestic workers in South Africa. The principal ... -
Empathy’s echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)The concept of empathy has been set to work, across a range of fields, to mark a break with the relational patterns of apartheid. Similarly, empathy has been identified, historically, as that which, within apartheid and ... -
Empowering young people in advocacy for transformation: A photovoice exploration of safe and unsafe spaces on a university campus
(UNISA, 2015)Globally and locally, research conducted with young people about safety on university campuses focuses primarily on risk and danger, particularly sexual danger. In this body of scholarship, the voices of young people are ... -
The enchantment of freedom at University of the Western Cape
(José Frantz, 2020)The history of the modern university is ,first and foremost ,the history of the unfolding of complex problematics of a planetary condition through established scientific and humanistic inquiry. Defined as such, the work ... -
Enhancing an international perspective in public health teaching through formalized university partnerships
(Frontiers Media, 2017)Teaching in the field of public health needs to employ a global perspective to account for the fact that public health problems and solutions have global determinants and implications as well. International university ... -
Enhancing instrumental competence in translator training in a higher education context: A task-based approach
(Academy Publication, 2023)Abstract—This study aims to design a task-based e-Course for teaching computer-aided translation technology in a higher education context. It also investigates the impact of the e-Course on enhancing the instrumental ... -
Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties: the role of ideologies and multilingual literacy practices in student evaluations of such materials at a South African University
(Springer, 2016)This paper seeks to address the ways in which ideology and literacy practices shape the responses of students to an ongoing initiative at the University of the Western Cape aimed at diversifying options for epistemological ... -
Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties: the role of ideologies and multilingual literacy practices in student evaluations of such materials at a South African University
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)This paper seeks to address the ways in which ideology and literacy practices shape the responses of students to an ongoing initiative at the University of the Western Cape aimed at diversifying options for epistemological ... -
Eros and Self-Realization: Zora Neale Hurston’s Janie and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru
(The Pennsylvania State University, 2020)A comparative analysis of Zora Neale Hurston’s Teir Eyes Were Watching God and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru suggests the importance of romantic love to the self actualization of the heroines of these novels, whose authors share ... -
Eschatology in South African literature from the struggle period (1960-1994)
(University of Kwazulu-Natal School of Theology, 2000)On the background of the current sense of despair concerning the environmental crisis, this article follows the basic intuition that a Christian environmental praxis can only be empowered on the basis of an adequate ... -
Essential medicines in Nigeria: foregrounding access to affordable essential medicines
(CODESRIA, 2014)Within every functional healthcare system, access to quality and affordable essential medicine stands out as one of the building blocks. However, its significance has been underrated due to poor advocacy and research. The ... -
Estimating and monitoring land surface phenology in rangelands: A review of progress and challenges
(MPDI, 2021)Land surface phenology (LSP) has been extensively explored from global archives of satellite observations to track and monitor the seasonality of rangeland ecosystems in response to climate change. Long term monitoring ... -
Estimation of maize foliar temperature and stomatal conductance as indicators of water stress based on optical and thermal imagery acquired using an unmanned aerial vehicle (uav) platform
(MDPI, 2022)Climatic variability and extreme weather events impact agricultural production, especially in sub-Saharan smallholder cropping systems, which are commonly rainfed. Hence, the development of early warning systems regarding ... -
Ethno-Regionalism, politics and the role of religion in Zambia: Changing Ecumenical landscapes in a Christian nation, 2015-2018
(Brill, 2019)This contribution explores the interaction between religion and politics in a religiously plural and ethnically multidimensional Zambian context. Given the political salience of both religion and ethnicity in Zambian ... -
Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used to manage High Blood Pressure and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Bitterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa
(Elsevier, 2016)ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: The aim of this study was to identify and document medicinal plants used to manage High Blood Pressure and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Bitterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa. METHODS: ... -
Evaluation of assessment skills using essay rubrics in student self-grading at first year level in higher education: a case study
(South African Association for Language Teaching, 2018)This paper reports on a study in which students self-graded an assessment task with the aid of an assessment rubric. On comparing student selfgrades with those of the tutor it was found that majority (72.6%) of the students ... -
Evaluation of land suitability methods with reference to neglected and underutilised crop species: A scoping review
(MDPI, 2021)In agriculture, land use and land classification address questions such as “where”, “why” and “when” a particular crop is grown within a particular agroecology. To date, there are several land suitability analysis (LSA) ... -
Evaluation of source rock potential and hydrocarbon composition of oil sand and associated clay deposits from the Eastern Dahomey Basin, Nigeria
(ScienceDirect, 2019)Oil sands are classified as unconventional hydrocarbon plays and are being exploited to augment global energy needs. Nigeria has the largest conventional oil industry in Africa, but is also endowed with abundant oil sand ... -
The everyday experience of xenophobia: performing The Crossing from Zimbabwe to South Africa
(RoutledgeUNISA Press, 2010)Debates on the underlying causes of xenophobia in South Africa have proliferated since the attacks -between March and May 2008. Our article shows how exploring the everyday 'ordinariness' of xenophobia as performance can ... -
“Everything happened so quickly” Living through events immediately before and after initial breast cancer diagnosis: an exploratory study of the experiences of a group of women in Cape Town, South Africa
(OMICS International, 2017)This article provides information on an aspect of the author’s research on colored women’s experiences of breast cancer and deals specifically with events immediately before and after the initial diagnosis. The experiences ...
