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Writing biology, assessing biology: The nature and effects of variation in terminology
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2016)
There has been substantial research into terminology as an issue in learning science, especially against the backdrop of concerns over school literacy in science and as sometimes reflected in the poor performance of high ...
Pastoral care in communities under transition: Interplay between care and culture
(AOSIS, 2018)
This article contributes to pastoral care within communities under transition. It seeks to
contribute to the corpus of literature that relates pastoral care with culture and, particularly,
multicultural contexts. It seeks ...
Multilingual examinations: towards a schema of politicization of language in end of high school examinations in sub-Saharan Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the release of each year’s results for the end of high school examinations heralds an annual ritual of public commentary on the poor state of national education systems. However, ...
Der Aspekt der Einfühlungsästhetik in André Brinks The Other Side of Silence
(Peter Lang, 2014)
There are many opinions about what constitutes a postcolonial novel. The act of
representation is part of this controversy: which voices should be represented by the
narrator and which should remain silent? This aspect ...
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 ...
On uncertainty
(University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities, 2018)
There is some uncertainty written into the form of this paper because, while it seeks to use scholarly procedures in engaging with the philosophical questions provoked by Ludwig Wittgenstein's late speculative essay On ...
Bureaucratically missing: Capital punishment, exhumations, and the afterlives of state documents and photographs
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
For their families, the bodies of many of those hanged by the apartheid state remain missing and missed. Judicial executions, and the corpses they produced, were hidden from the scrutiny of the public and the press. While ...
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 ...
Use of web 2.0 technologies by library and information science students
(UNISA Press, 2016)
The research reported on in this article investigated the use of Web 2.0 technologies by library and information science (LIS) students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. Blumer and Katz’s Uses and ...
Students’ narratives on gender and sexuality in the project of social justice and belonging in higher education
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)
Student protests in South Africa flag the well-documented lack of progress in transforming universities which mirror deeply entrenched inequalities. The imperative to challenge a system of higher education that continues ...