The Power of Double Vision: Tradition and Social Intervention in African Puppet Performance

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335
Author(s):  
Marie Kruger
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Intervention ◽  
Double Vision ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University ◽  
Representative Object

The appeal of the puppet lies partly in its dual nature: it is at once a representative object without life while at the same time it enacts the imagined life with which it is endowed by the puppeteer. Marie Kruger argues that this duality makes puppetry a uniquely effective way of questioning the very traditional values it appears to embody, and so of stimulating a sense of the need for social change. She relates her argument to the long tradition of puppetry among the Bamana people of Mali, and specifically to the performance of the Bin Sogo bo, an animal masquerade in which the ‘characters’ adumbrate human qualities with effective ambiguity. Marie Kruger is Chair of the Department of Drama at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, where puppetry is offered as a performance option. She is the author of Puppetry: a Guide for Beginners and has also published in the South Africa Theatre Journal. Over the past twenty years she has directed numerous puppet productions for all ages, and is currently leading a research project to document the nature and application of African puppet traditions.

scholarly journals Investigating Suggestions for Increasing the Throughput Rate of IS Students

10.28945/2678 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Naude ◽  
Tertia Horne
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Throughput Rate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Second Year

During the past few years science faculties at tertiary education institutions in South Africa have had to face increasing pressure from national as well as provincial government bodies to improve the student throughput rate. Various suggestions have been made to achieve this goal. This paper investigates the viability of two of these suggestions for solving the throughput problem. It is part of a larger reflexive research project investigating various aspects of the teaching and learning of Computing and IS through distance education. Information from the assignment records and the examination marks of students for a specific Computer Science second year module with a practical component was used for this study.

scholarly journals Die oorgeblewe sendingtaak in Suid-Afrika

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-205
Author(s):  
J. J. Kritzinger
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
Research Project ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Task ◽  
Contemporary Situation ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

The remaining missionary task in South Africa This article is based on the results of a research project of the Institute for Missiological Research at the University of Pretoria which was recently concluded. The author and a team of co-workers researched practically the whole of South Africa in an endeavour to describe the contemporary situation of its population and the unfinished task of the church. The understanding of the missionary task which formed the basis of this project, and a sample of the kind of results obtained are illustrated in this article by means of 12 representative or typical scenarios which together indicate the dimensions of the future task for the South African church.

scholarly journals Releasing Higher Education from its elitist captivity: The change agency of Unisa’s Chance 2 Advance programme

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Genevieve James
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Community Agency ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The University

In South Africa, the majority of the population suffers from the inadequacy of learning opportunities and poor access to the higher education system. This causes the widening of the knowledge gap and increased socio-economic marginalisation, which threatens community agency. Critical knowledge created by academics at South African higher education institutions often culminates in access-controlled, costly scientific publications, thus limiting public access. On the other hand, because of the distance between universities and communities, community knowledge and intelligences are never fed back into the university to enrich scholarship and enhance relevance. This paper explores the need for higher education to be freed from its elitist captivity in order to widen access to knowledge that would enhance community agency and revitalise academic agency for social change. The paper starts with a discussion on the need for change in the elitist nature of higher education. I will recount how essential shifts in thinking and action created the Chance 2 Advance programme hosted by the largest provider of higher education on the continent, the University of South Africa. This programme was designed in an attempt to re-vision academic scholarship for the benefit of the poor. Chance 2 Advance is an engaged scholarship and community-learning programme designed to bring communities and academics closer, in a mutual and reciprocal process of knowledge creation and knowledge mobilisation for social change. The programme has been replicated in urban and rural areas with success. At the end of 2018, the programme is poised to reach 100 000 participants, since its inception in 2010.

scholarly journals The Nursing Student at the University of South Africa

Curationis ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
E.B.I. Brownlee
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Academic Setting ◽  
Nursing Science ◽  
The University

This research project, undertaken in the Department of Nursing Science at Unisa between 1978 and 1981, focuses on nursing education in general and in particular on nurses as postregistration students furthering their education through the medium of teletuition in the nonresidential academic setting offered by Unisa.

Excavation and documentation of the Rhodian countryside and Dodecanese islands in the first millennium BC

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 157-175
Author(s):  
Nicholas Salmon
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Past ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
First Millennium Bc ◽  
Archival Documentation ◽  
The University

This contribution offers an overview of recent fieldwork and museum-based projects focused on the Rhodian countryside and Dodecanese islands. The excavations conducted by the Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese over the past two decades, paired with the study of Rhodian collections in the Louvre and British Museum, among other museums, have developed and promoted the archaeological record of the region. The Kymissala Archaeological Research Project led by the University of the Aegean and a collaborative doctoral project investigating the British Museum’s collections from Kamiros each demonstrate the potential of revisiting historic excavations through topographical surveys and archival documentation.

Little We Know of Each Other

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Marguerite Müller
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
Creative Expression ◽  
Free State ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Performative Text ◽  
The University

This performative text is rooted in arts-based inquiry and expressed as the textual portraits of five educators working at the University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa. These portraits were created as part of a collaborative research project in which participants shared their experiential knowledge of working toward antioppressive practice in higher education at the UFS between 2014 and 2016. The textual portraits highlight the contradictions, uncertainty, and messiness of educator identity in this complex and volatile space. Furthermore, the performative text serves as a creative expression of different ways of knowing and different ways of becoming.

scholarly journals Sharing in God�s surprise: The place and role of the Department of Science of Religion and Missiology at the University of Pretoria

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter G.J. Meiring
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
African Context ◽  
Science Of Religion ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

During the centenary year of the University of Pretoria (2008), the Department of Science of Religion and Missiology took stock of its activities during the past 55 years, since the first professor in Missiology, H.D.A. du Toit, was appointed. In his wake a number of missiologists followed � C.W.H. Boshoff, D. Crafford, P.G.J. Meiring, J.J. Kritzinger, P.J. van der Merwe, A.S. van Niekerk and C.J.P. Niemandt � each of whom has contributed to the formation of hundreds of ministers and missionaries, as well as to the development of missiology and science of religion in South Africa through their research and writings. In this article, the place of missiology among the other theological disciplines at the University of Pretoria is discussed, together with an analysis of the nature and the mandate of missiology and science of religion in South Africa in our day. This article discusses five specific challenges to missiology at the beginning of the third millennium, namely to maintain its theological �roots�; to operate in close relationship with the church; to focus on our African context; to concentrate on a relevant agenda; and to develop a responsible methodology. Attention is given to some of the more important publications by members of the Department.

Phytoremediation as an Alternative Way for the Treatment of Large, Low Heavy Metal Contaminated Sites: Application at a Former Uranium Mining Area

2009 ◽  
Vol 71-73 ◽  
pp. 705-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Willscher ◽  
J. Wittig ◽  
Hans Bergmann ◽  
Georg Büchel ◽  
Dirk Merten ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acid Leaching ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Contaminated Sites ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Test Field ◽  
Field Site ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University ◽  
Uranium Mining Area

Large sites with a low contamination of metall(oid)s were in the past a problem for remediation measures – the “traditional” processes were too expensive for an application on such expanded areas. Phytoremediation can be an alternative for such low contamination problems. In Germany, a research project is performed on this subject, in cooperation of the University of Jena and the TU Dresden. The field site is a former U mining area. Until 1991, a low grade U ore dump for sulfuric acid leaching was located on this site. After the close-down of the U mining in East Germany in 1991, the dump material was removed. Now, a phytoremediation test field is constructed on top of this site for the capture of the remained contaminants coming up by capillary forces. The paper pictures the phytoremediation in general, the research project and gives some first preliminary results.

Forest harvesting operations in South Africa

2001 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-120
Author(s):  
Reino Pulkki
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Forest Harvesting ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Forest Operations ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University ◽  
Forest Engineering ◽  
Operations Managers

The author had the opportunity to spend the past year at the University of Stellenbosch, Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, as the Chair of Forest Engineering. This article summarizes the forest harvesting situation in South Africa and reflects on some of the dilemmas that forest operations managers must contend with daily. Key words: South Africa, logging, harvesting, mechanization, appropriate technology

REFLEXIVITY IN A UNIVERSITY PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH PROJECT IN TRANSITIONING SOUTH AFRICA

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-92
Author(s):  
Kathleen Collins
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The University

This article reflexively describes the influence of bias on the interaction between facilitators and participants in a participatory research project at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. The bias uncovers racial power hierarchies in one small group which are represented in the wider context of the country in contradiction to the formally espoused democracy, in existence for nearly two decades. The author argues that biases of power are generally unrecognised in dialogue and promote the inequities which can be recognised in the legacy of apartheid. Identification of such biases is key to transforming society in South Africa.

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