scholarly journals Skryfkuns as graadvak

Literator ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Du Plessis

Creative writing has been taught as a subject at the tertiatiory level in the USA for many years. In this article the issue of creative writing as subject for a South African degree is discussed. The matter at issue is not whether creative writing has the potential to be a university subject, but rather what such a subject should include. Thus the content of creative writing as university subject and how it should be taught are addressed. The conclusion that is reached is that the main issue at stake is the balance to be struck among literary theory, writing theory and writing practice. Starting in the near future the Potchefstroom University for CHE will be offering a course in creative writing as a degree credit. The subject-matter, possible organization and integration, as well as its specific niche are considered.

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Charles Moorhouse ◽  
David Abrahams

The purpose of this article is to put forward submissions regarding the implementation of a weapons review process in compliance of South Africa’s obligations under Additional Protocol I (hereinafter “API”) Article 36. Article 36 requires each state party to determine whether the employment of any new weapon, means or method of warfare that it studies, develops, acquires or adopts would, insome or all circumstances, be prohibited by international law. Article 36 does not specify how such a legal review should be implemented or conducted. Thus this article puts forward proposals regarding both the substantive and procedural aspectsof a review of the legality of weapons, means and methods of warfare that the authors submit best befits the South African context.A background regarding the legal limitations placed upon the use of certain weapons, means and methods of warfare and an explanation of South Africa’s obligations regarding national implementation of a weapons review process, is given in paragraph 1 so as to create an understanding as to why it is necessary for the Republic of South Africa to implement a process to review the legality of weapons, means and methods of warfare. Before the implementation of a weapons review process can be discussed, the subject matter of such a review must first be ascertained. Thus paragraph 2 contains a discussion regarding the definition of the term “weapons, means and methods of warfare” and a determination of which weapons shall form the subject matter of legal reviews. No specific manner of implementation is contained within API and thus it is at the discretion of the state in question, in this case South Africa, to adopt the necessary measures to implement this obligation. In this regard, paragraph 3 contains submissions regarding the status of the review body within the state hierarchy and its method of establishment. This paragraph also contains an explanation of the process by which South Africa acquires its weapons. The legal scope of the review process is dealt with in paragraph 4. Within thisparagraph, the place of both treaty-based law and customary international law (“CIL”) in the South African legal system is discussed. Furthermore, the treaty-law and customary international law rules binding upon South Africa regarding limitations of specific weapons and general weapons limitations are enumerated and the paragraph ends with a discussion of the Martens Clause. 


2016 ◽  
pp. 73-79
Author(s):  
V. . Tayar

The subject of research is connected with the possibility that in the near future on the economic world map there can appear a new trading bloc - Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the USA. In article are analyzed challenges and prospects from this contract for Ibero-American countries (Spain, Portugal and Latin American y Caribbean countries).


1971 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-421
Author(s):  
Ghiţa Ionescu

EXACTLY FIVE YEARS AGO THIS JOURNAL PUBLISHED A SPECIAL ISSUE devoted to ‘The Politics of European Integration’. British-European relations were then at one of their lowest ebbs and our endeavour might have seemed singularly untimely. Yet the issue has been exhausted, and the demand for it continues. But, when faced with the decision to reprint, we thought that the subject matter had evolved so much that we preferred to prepare a new collection of studies. Hence this issue on the new politics of European integration.But there is continuity between the two numbers of the journal. Our subscribers will not fail to notice that many of the articles which appeared in 1966 on basic historical and political aspects of European integration have not been superseded. Indeed the historical articles from the previous issue, together with the political articles of the present issue, supplemented by two historical surveys of British, and British Labour attitudes to the EEC, by Stephen Holt and Michael Wheaton respectively, are to be published in book form in the near future by Messrs Macmillan.


Author(s):  
Н. Ю. Стоюхина

В статье анализируются результаты поездки Г.И. Челпанова в Америку в 1911 г., куда он направился во время строительства Психологического института при Московском университете для ознакомления с организацией психологических институтов и лабораторий, в которых работали виднейшие ученые Дж.М. Кеттелл, Р. Вудвортс, Э.Б. Титченер, Д.Р. Энджелл, Х.А. Карр, Ч.Х. Джадд, Д.Ф. Шепард, У.Б. Пиллсбери, С. Холл, Г. Мюнстерберг и др. Устройство и принципы работы руководимых ими научно-исследовательских подразделений оставили большое впечатление. По приезде в Москву в своих выступлениях он неоднократно возвращался к своим американским воспоминаниям. Начало ХХ в. характеризовалось зарождением прикладной психологии, а одним из ее направлений была психология труда. Американский ученый немецкого происхождения Г. Мюнстерберг - признанный в мире основатель прикладной психологии, за трудами которого внимательно следил Г.И. Челпанов. Именно ее развитие стала предметом обсуждения в его выступлениях в 1911 - 1912 гг. Главные вопросы, требовавшие незамедлительного ответа - области приложения прикладной психологии и кто будет этим заниматься в России. Именно Психологический институт, оснащенный самыми современными приборами, должен был готовить к будущим научным исследованиям тех молодых людей, которые в скором времени займутся прикладной психологией. Так и произошло - с 1912 г. заработал Психологический институт, где воплощались замыслы Г.И. Челпанова. В 1921 г., т.е. ровно 100 лет назад, уже в Советской России, он возвращается к теме прикладной психологии, имевшей конкретное имя - психология труда. Он наметил задачи, требовавшие незамедлительного решения, которые, как показала практика 1920-30-х гг., решались советскими учеными. The article addresses G. I. Chelpanov’s trip to the USA in 1911, where he went during the construction of the Psychological Institute at Moscow University to get acquainted with the organization of psychological institutes and laboratories, where the most prominent scientists J. M. Cattell, R. Woodworth, E. B. Titchener, J.R. Angell, H. A. Carr, C. H. Judd, J. F. Shepard, W. B. Pillsbury, S. Hall, G. Münsterberg and many others worked, the structure and principles of the research led by them left a great impression. Speaking upon his arrival in Moscow, he repeatedly returns to his American memories. The beginning of the twentieth century was marked by the emergence of applied psychology, and one of the areas was labor psychology. The American scientist of German origin G. Münsterberg is the internationally recognized founder of applied psychology, whose works G. I. Chelpanov knew and followed. It was its development that became the subject of discussion in his speeches in 1911 and 1912. The main questions that demanded an immediate answer were the areas of application of applied psychology and personalities who would implement this in Russia. It was the modern and equipped with the most modern devices Psychological Institute that was supposed to prepare for future scientific research those young people who would soon be engaged in applied psychology. And so, it happened - since 1912 the Psychological Institute was opened, where G. I. Chelpanov’s ideas were manifested. In 1921, already in Soviet Russia, he returned to the topic of applied psychology, which already had a specific name - labor psychology. He outlined the tasks that needed to be addressed in the near future, which, as the practice of the 1920s and 1930s showed, were solved by Soviet scientists.


2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Szuster

The article is an attempt to capture improvisational theater as a modern dynamic phenomenon through analyzing its features, definitions and traits in order to characterize the genre and to systematize the current state of knowledge on the subject matter. By comparing and contrasting various aspects and notions of impro(v) in Poland and the United States, the study not only looks at the theater of improvisation through the prism of the “relocation” of the form from its original grounds and implementing it in within a different tradition, but also shows the experimental flexibility of the genre within different cultural traditions and structures. Based largely on interviews with Polish and American improvisers alike, this article is an in-medias-res case study of the contemporary improvised theater in Poland and the USA.


Author(s):  
JJ Van der Walt

The purpose of this work is an attempt to argue that South Africa as a society cannot be lost in transformation, but that the process of transformation can be misguided or ineffective is, in my opinion, irrefutable. Because of our particular history, equality jurisprudence will be used as the subject matter to indicate whether our society can be lost in transformation. In the first instance, I discuss the condictiones sine quo non of post-apartheid South African equality jurisprudence in the second part. Thereafter, in the third part, the aspirational end — the achievement of equality — serves to identify, through our constitutional values and section 9 of the Constitution, three power relations which require addressing for our society to transform. With reference to Legal feminism, Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory, patriarchy, white supremacy and heteronormativity are identified as power relations that are the, current, object of transformation in our society.


2007 ◽  
pp. 49-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Yefimov

On the basis of contemporary results of the philosophy of science the author renews the debate on methods (Methodenstreit). The current dominant conception of "scientific" stems from classical natural science. New Institutional Economics has been trapped in the classical paradigm by imitating not even contemporary natural science but that existing one hundred years before which studied simple systems. Practically-oriented first institutionalists in Germany and in the USA who dealt with complex socio-economic systems properly found out the interpretative approach appropriate for this kind of systems. This approach has recently received an increased development. The author uses these results for renovating the vision of the subject matter and the method of institutional economics.


1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Wiesner ◽  
L. P. Vermeulen ◽  
C. R. Littler

The impact of organisational downsizing on employees who remain has been the subject of intense research, particularly in the USA. The issue of so-called survivor syndrome is critically important in relation to productivity growth and the success of restructuring. However, current conceptualisation has been based largely on American research. There has been little data on downsizing in the South African context. The purpose of this article is to discuss the extent of survivor syndrome in organisations that have restructured and downsized in South Africa. We ask the questions: does downsizing inevitably result in high levels of survivor syndrome; which factors intensify and modify survivor syndrome; and is there a restructuring cycle? The database constitutes 421 South African organisations.


1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-181
Author(s):  
L. F. Pitt ◽  
R. Abratt

Consumer dissatisfaction and redress needs have been the subject of a number of research studies in the USA. The same cannot be said for South Africa. This article reports the findings of research into the South African consumer's dissatisfaction with beauty and health-care products and her actions in seeking redress. Utilizing a successful technique developed by Diener and Greyser, extent of product use, product problems, degree of dissatisfaction, and action in seeking redress are examined. The article concludes that general dissatisfaction with the products concerned is low, but that the problems are of little importance to the consumer. She is also lax in seeking redress, and expects a more positive reaction from the manufacturer than the retailer, although the sample were not inclined to seek redress from the manufacturer. It is apparent that the consumer seeks redress in the easiest alternative - brand switching, and also by means of word-of-mouth. The implications for brand management and product policy are obvious.


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