South African Adolescents' Explanations for Juvenile Delinquency

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.A. Tyson ◽  
C.R. Stones
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
South African ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Emotional Adjustment ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Varimax Rotation ◽  
Juvenile Offending ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The World

Research in other parts of the world suggests that adolescents invoke a multiplicity of causes to explain juvenile offending. The extent to which the different explanations are endorsed appears partly to be a function of cultural and demographic characteristics. The aim of this study was to investigate South African adolescents' explanations for delinquency and to examine cultural differences in these explanations. A total of 554 secondary school pupils from two Eastern Cape high schools rated 39 explanations for juvenile offending on a Likert scale. Principal component analysis and a varimax rotation of the responses identified seven factors - Home Environment, Antisocial Tendency, Influencability, Social Control, Emotional Adjustment, Deprivation and Social Alienation. The results showed that there were large differences between the Black and White learners in terms of the perceived importance of a number of the explanatory causes.

FACTOR STRUCTURE OF RELIGIOUS PROBLEM – COPING STYLES IN AN AFRICAN SAMPLE

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 509-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Varimax Rotation ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Third ◽  
African Sample

The aim of the study was to determine the factor structure of the Religious Problem-Solving Scale in an African population. The sample included 624 students: 314 Grade 12, secondary school students and 310 third year social science university students in South Africa. The principal component analysis with varimax rotation yielded three components accounting for 64% of the total variance. The first factor contained 12 items from the Deferring scale, the second 12 items of the Self-Directing scale and the third factor 12 items from the Collaborative scale. The Deferring rather than the Collaborative religious problem-solving style seems to be more prevalent in this African sample than among western subjects.

Students' Readiness for Using E-learning in South African Rural Universities: A Case of Walter Sisulu University

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-100
Author(s):  
Jose Manappattukunnel Lukose ◽  
Adelin Kantore ◽  
Agyei Fosu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Technological Readiness ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Rural Settings ◽  
The World ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Ict Infrastructure

In recent timesE-learning receives greater attention among educational practitioners. All over the world, many institutions of higher learning are using E-learning as a supplementary tool to the traditional ways of teaching and learning. Covid-19 pandemic has forced institutions all over the world to adopt E-learning as the preferred mode of teaching and learning. Though many African universities have adopted E-learning as a response to Covid-19 pandemic, success of it, in particular among the institutions located in rural settings depends heavily on the e-readiness factor of the learners these institutions enrol at undergraduate levels. Though most universities in South Africa implemented E-learning, little is known about E-learning readiness in formerly under-privileged universities. Walter Sisulu University (WSU) is a higher education institutions situated in the Eastern cape province which is considered as one of the disadvantaged provinces with very low CT penetration. This selected institution predominantly enrols students who are hailing from the rural and townships population of the province with schools that are characterised by lack of essential ICT infrastructure and teachers with basic computer skills though a very low percentage of the student population constitute students from other provinces and countries outside South Africa. This research study investigated the readiness of learners enrolled at level-one of undergraduate programmes in WSU to use E-learning as tool to enhance their learning. Keywords: E-learning, African rural University, technological readiness

Our World through Our Words: the People and Their Stories through Our Ancestors’ Voices

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Natalia Molebatsi ◽  
T Tu Huynh
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
South African Context ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Local Texture ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Urban Livelihoods ◽  
The World ◽  
African Context

Abstract The article aims to give local texture to people’s, specifically Chinese, mobilities in a South African context. Through a retelling of a grandmother’s stories to her granddaughter, we argue that they offer a vision of the world that Black and Chinese South Africans inhabited during apartheid – they disrupted the world built by the all-white government. During the apartheid period, people were forced to see the world in black and white terms, not to mention powerful and powerless. It is this reality of the past that an ancestor’s oral accounts about how her people met and interacted with people from other shores, who had different stories than hers, are important. In this article, one of the authors recalls and further reimagines these stories about people who came from afar to make their own living in South Africa, cross paths with the locals, and leave their own marks. The article also highlights the significance of “Mo-China,” the Chinese fafi gambling game in supplementing Black and Chinese South African urban livelihoods during apartheid. The article concludes by pointing out that these stories, crossing and informing worlds, are prohibited knowledge that requires new attention which debates on the Chinese presence in African contexts have neglected thus far.

Development, Reliability and Validation of the Diabetes Emotional Adjustment Scale in Spanish: Preliminary Findings

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ovidio A. De Leóan
Keyword(s):  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Emotional Adjustment ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Structure Stability ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Varimax Rotation ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Development And Validation

Objective: The development of instruments to measure emotional maladjustment in diabetic Hispanic populations has received little attention. We present the development and validation of the Diabetes Emotional Adjustment Scale in Spanish. Method: An eighteen-item self-administered scale was construed to assess emotional adjustment in Spanish-speaking diabetic patients and the psychometric properties of the scale were assessed. The scale was applied to a sample of sixty patients and scale scores were correlated with scores on a battery of Spanish versions of established measures of psychological distress, to assess concurrent validity. Test-retest reliability was established four years later re-examining thirty-eight of the initial sixty-patients sample. Results: Split-half reliability and test-retest reliability were satisfactory. There were significant correlations between the scale results and measures of depression, trait-anxiety, family adjustment, and locus of control of behavior. A principal component analysis with varimax rotation yielded a six-factor solution explaining 50.4 percent of the total variance. Conclusions: The scale is useful as a screening instrument, but the confirmation of factor structure stability and the correlation of the scale results with objective measures of metabolic control, require further investigation.

Love-Attitudes of White South African Adolescents

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph L. Philbrick ◽  
Christopher R. Stones
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
South African ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Adolescent Boys

Perusal of the cross-cultural literature indicates an absence of reported research on a crucial aspect of interpersonal relationships, that of love and romance in South Africa. Accordingly, the Munro-Adams Love-Attitude Scale was administered to a random sample of 92 white adolescent seniors in secondary school from the Eastern Cape. While this study indicates that the white adolescent boys are more romantic than the girls, this finding might not be applicable to their black peers who are reported to show a reverse profile.

“Coconuts” and the middle-class

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirstin Wilmot
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
South African ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
School Environments ◽  
African Context ◽  
Model C

This paper presents a sociolinguistic investigation of language use in the South African context. It focuses on socio-cultural and subsequent phonetic change in two prestigious secondary school environments in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Adopting a poststructuralist lens, it considers how female isiXhosa mother tongue speakers, who attend private and ex-model-C English schools, are undergoing changes in identity, which are mirrored in the acquisition of a new, prestigious variety of English. The research adopts a Labovian form of data collection, notably the use of sociolinguistic interviews, as well as sociophonetic analysis. The findings suggest that changes in identity construction are evident, both in terms of speech accommodation and cultural assimilation. Middle-class isiXhosa mother tongue speakers are now proficient in both English and isiXhosa, and both languages are used strategically to take up different identity positions. The findings also suggest that a new prestigious English variety is emerging, one that is deracialised, and is associated rather with social class.

Digital Processing of STEM Images

1981 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 236-237
Author(s):  
A. V. Crewe ◽  
M. Ohtsuki
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Low Dose ◽  
Assembly Language ◽  
Processing System ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Digital Processing ◽  
Image Analysis System ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
Dose Imaging

We have assembled an image processing system for use with our high resolution STEM for the particular purpose of working with low dose images of biological specimens. The system is quite flexible, however, and can be used for a wide variety of images.The original images are stored on magnetic tape at the microscope using the digitized signals from the detectors. For low dose imaging, these are “first scan” exposures using an automatic montage system. One Nova minicomputer and one tape drive are dedicated to this task.The principal component of the image analysis system is a Lexidata 3400 frame store memory. This memory is arranged in a 640 x 512 x 16 bit configuration. Images are displayed simultaneously on two high resolution monitors, one color and one black and white. Interaction with the memory is obtained using a Nova 4 (32K) computer and a trackball and switch unit provided by Lexidata.The language used is BASIC and uses a variety of assembly language Calls, some provided by Lexidata, but the majority written by students (D. Kopf and N. Townes).

Apartheid Aesthetics and Insignificant Art

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-69
Author(s):  
Stephanus Muller
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
South African ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Art Songs ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Small House ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Selection Of

Stephanus Le Roux Marais (1896−1979) lived in Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, for nearly a quarter of a century. He taught music at the local secondary school, composed most of his extended output of Afrikaans art songs, and painted a number of small landscapes in the garden of his small house, nestled in the bend of the Sunday’s River. Marais’s music earned him a position of cultural significance in the decades of Afrikaner dominance of South Africa. His best-known songs (“Heimwee,” “Kom dans, Klaradyn,” and “Oktobermaand”) earned him the local appellation of “the Afrikaans Schubert” and were famously sung all over the world by the soprano Mimi Coertse. The role his ouevre played in the construction of a so-called European culture in Africa is uncontested. Yet surprisingly little attention has been paid to the rich evocations of landscape encountered in Marais’s work. Contextualized by a selection of Marais’s paintings, this article glosses the index of landscape in this body of cultural production. The prevalence of landscape in Marais’s work and the range of its expression contribute novel perspectives to understanding colonial constructions of the twentieth-century South African landscape. Like the vast, empty, and ancient landscape of the Karoo, where Marais lived during the last decades of his life, his music assumes specificity not through efforts to prioritize individual expression, but through the distinct absence of such efforts. Listening for landscape in Marais’s songs, one encounters the embrace of generic musical conventions as a condition for the construction of a particular national identity. Colonial white landscape, Marais’s work seems to suggest, is deprived of a compelling musical aesthetic by its very embrace and desired possession of that landscape.

International School in Informatics “Junior” for IOI Training

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 187-193
Author(s):  
Marina S. TSVETKOVA ◽  
Vladimir M. KIRYUKHIN
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
International School ◽  
International Training ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
Thirtieth Anniversary ◽  
The World ◽  
Training Event ◽  
School Computer

In 2018 the IOI will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary. Over these three decades, not only the world secondary school Olympiads in informatics community have been formed, which covers more than 80 countries from all continents, but a formation of an united methodological space of the school Informatics started also. This space allows many countries today to develop school computer science education, using the experience of other countries, materials from the IOI conference journal, sites of computer science contests, and other Internet resources. This article describes a model for organizing an international training event for juniors – International School in Informatics “Junior” – ISIJ.

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