Agile administrative choreographies for multimode education at the University of Pretoria

Background: When midwives are not treated with respect and their professional competencies are not recognised, their professional dignity is violated. Objective: This study explored and described how the professional dignity of midwives in the selected hospital can be enhanced based on their experiences. Research design: A descriptive phenomenological research design was used with in-depth interviews conducted with 15 purposely selected midwives. Ethical considerations: The Faculty of Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee of the University of Pretoria approved the study. The research was conducted in an academic tertiary hospital with voluntary participants. Findings: To dignify midwives it is essential to enhance the following: ‘to acknowledge the capabilities of midwives’, ‘to appreciate interventions of midwives’, ‘to perceive midwives as equal health team members’, ‘to invest in midwives’, ‘to enhance collegiality’, ‘to be cared for by management’ and ‘to create conducive environments’. Conclusion: The professional dignity of midwives is determined by their own perspectives of the contribution that they make to the optimal care of patients, the respect that they get from others and the support that hospital management gives them. With support and care, midwives’ professional dignity is enhanced. Midwives will strive to render excellent services as well as increasing their commitment.

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Game Ranch management

Koedoe ◽

10.4102/koedoe.v32i1.460 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

Author(s):

G. De Graaff

Keyword(s):

Southern Africa ◽

Wildlife Management ◽

South Africans ◽

Intensive Research ◽

University Of Pretoria ◽

Ranch Management ◽

The University

This book is the result of six years' intensive research and brainstorming by a group of South Africans under the editorship of J. du P. Bothma, the incumbent of the Eugene Marais Chair of Wildlife Management at the University of Pretoria. The group, comprising professional botanists and zoologists, veterinarians and wildlife managers, emphasises the fact that game (in all its characteristics and attributes) is unquestionably a natural asset in many parts of southern Africa

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Die wysgerige agtergrond van die Hervormde teologiese opleiding aan die Universiteit van Pretoria

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v45i2.2267 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

Author(s):

P. S. Dreyer

Keyword(s):

University Of Pretoria ◽

Philosophical Background ◽

History Of ◽

Theological Students ◽

The University ◽

Theological Training

The philosophical background of the theological training of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Church of Afrika at the University of Pretoria Since the inception of the theological training of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Church of Africa at the University of Pretoria in 1917 philosophy has been a mandatory subject for all propaedeutic theological students. The history of the Department of Philosophy is traced to show the prevalent types of philosophy taught in the Department, because the philosophical training is considered important as preparation for theological training.

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A needs analysis for a non-abusive intervention programme in the School of Health Care Sciences at the University of Pretoria

Curationis ◽

10.4102/curationis.v29i2.1084 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

LO Fouché ◽

R Du Toit

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Needs Analysis ◽

Science Students ◽

Intervention Programme ◽

University Of Pretoria ◽

History Of ◽

The University ◽

Student Abuse

Due to feedback from students, student abuse during fieldwork, was brought to the attention of the researchers. The study aimed to determine whether a need for a nonabusive intervention programme (NIP) existed amongst the School of Health Care Science students at the University of Pretoria. All students enrolled at the School of Health Care Sciences completed a questionnaire. An overwhelming response indicated that the majority of students (95.85%) have a need for a non-abusive intervention programme (NIP). A significant need was identified especially among Nursing-, Physiotherapy- and Radiography students, 2nd and 4,h year students, and within a psychiatric fieldwork setting. Two surprise findings were firstly, that students who have no history of abuse have a greater need for an intervention programme than students with a history of abuse. Secondly superiors in the field are responsible for the majority of abusive incidences reported by students. The implementation of a non-abusive intervention programme (NIP) to help students handle abusive incidences effectively and humanely is strongly recommended.

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Theology and higher education: The place of a Faculty of Theology at a South African university

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v72i4.3450 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 72 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Jaco Beyers

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

South African ◽

Well Being ◽

Interreligious Dialogue ◽

Faith Communities ◽

African Society ◽

Tertiary Institutions ◽

South African Society ◽

University Of Pretoria ◽

The University

In 2017, the Faculty of Theology celebrates its centenary at the University of Pretoria. Celebrating a centennial is as much as looking back as looking forward. In a changing world with changing paradigms how does one remain relevant? Different challenges and expectations presented to tertiary institutions of education in a new dispensation puts all concerned with higher education in South Africa under pressure. The question addressed in this article is how will a Faculty of Theology (in this case at the University of Pretoria) remain relevant to such an extent that it is continued to be viewed as desirable to have such a faculty present at a university, participating in the academic process and simultaneously continues to contribute to the well-being of the South African society. The author suggests the following guidelines for consideration. In order to remain relevant for the next couple of hundred years the Faculty of Theology should engage contextually with society, practise interdisciplinary Theology, engage in interreligious dialogue while still remaining connected to faith communities. A paradigm of post-foundationalism enables Theology to exercise Theology in a relevant and meaningful manner.

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Constructing the self in later life: The life story of Selaelo Thias Kgatla (1949–)

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v72i1.4210 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 72 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Christina Landman

Keyword(s):

Oral History ◽

Church Leadership ◽

Life Story ◽

Later Life ◽

Life Review ◽

The Self ◽

Interview Schedule ◽

Reformed Church ◽

University Of Pretoria ◽

The University

On 15 April 2014 the author conducted an interview with Selaelo Thias Kgatla (then 64) by means of a prearranged interview schedule to revaluate a life review. Kgatla’s years of academic and ecclesiastical involvement leading to his ordination as the minister of the Polokwane Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa at the age of 47 were considered. However, the focus was on the last 18 years before his retirement, which was to happen in December 2015. This period commenced with his ordination in 1997 and covered his involvement in church leadership as Assessor and later Moderator of the Northern Synod (since 1999) and as Moderator of the General Synod (since 2005), as well as his appointments as professor at the University of Limpopo in 1997 and at the University of Pretoria in 2010.In freezing this interview into the academic account given here, oral history and methodological sensitivities are considered. The interviewee’s ownership of his life review is acknowledged; his construction of the self as a coherent story of church leadership is respected; and the characteristics of remembering in later life are pointed out reverentially.The life review with Kgatla was expanded with interviews from colleagues and congregants of his choice who confirmed the construction of his life story as one of relationship and resistance. Finally, the author gives a concluding overview of aims achieved in the article in terms of oral methodology and the contents of a life review in which the interviewee constructed his life as a church leader on the interface between resistance and relationship.

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(Un-)shackling the University in the City

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v71i3.3101 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 71 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Ulrike Kistner

Keyword(s):

National Development ◽

Developmental State ◽

Corporate Management ◽

Management Styles ◽

African City ◽

Capital Cities ◽

University Of Pretoria ◽

The University ◽

The City ◽

Corporate Partnerships

This article examines the relation between the University of Pretoria and the City of Tshwane, outlining seven different kinds of relation as they have taken shape historically. The first type relation between the University and the City presented here, establishes correspondences in public architecture at the height of apartheid modernity, between structures marking and shaping political convergences. The second type of relation is premised on the walling in and fencing off of the University from the City; the Metro musings exhibition inaugurating the ‘Capital Cities’ project looks across the divides thus cemented, from within the confines of the University. The third type of relation is that of ‘Community Engagement’ culminating in the annual Mandela Day activities, impelled by ideas on the Developmental State featuring in the National Development Plan. In the fourth type of relation, corporate models of municipal governance find common cause with the corporate management styles of the University, expressed in corporate partnerships combining a ‘University of Excellence’ with ‘the African City of Excellence’. The strategies envisaged for social intervention emerging from this ‘partnership’ form a sixth type of relation between the University and the City. In the process of pitting property and law against poverty and lawlessness, new civic challenges are emerging for transformative constitutionalism and for the University. In both arenas, this article concludes, what is at stake is a seventh type of relation between the University and the City – outside of the ‘legal’-‘illegal’ distinction. For the University, in particular, this would entail a productive idea of ‘dissensus’.

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Diverse Thinking-Style Preferences in a University Course in Mathematics

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.2001.89.3.583 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 89 (3) ◽

pp. 583-588 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jacobus G. Maree ◽

Tobia Steyn

Keyword(s):

Thinking Style ◽

Brain Dominance ◽

Instructional Activities ◽

University Of Pretoria ◽

Instrument Analysis ◽

Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument ◽

Style Preferences ◽

University Course ◽

The University

At the University of Pretoria during 1999 the thinking-style preferences of three groups of students ( ns = 50, 31, and 13) taking a first course in calculus were assessed using the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument. Analysis affirmed diversity in thinking-style preferences among the students and that the groups' scores represent a composite range of such preferences. Clearly, teachers of mathematics should be aware of and accommodate this diversity in instructional activities.

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‘Between life and death’: On land, silence and liberation in the capital city

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v70i1.2075 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 70 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Stephan F. De Beer

Keyword(s):

Social Movement ◽

Mission Statement ◽

The Other ◽

Capital City ◽

Capital Cities ◽

Life And Death ◽

University Of Pretoria ◽

The One ◽

The University ◽

The City

This article reflects on the unfinished task of liberation – as expressed in issues of land – and drawing from the work of Franz Fanon and the Durban-based social movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. It locates its reflections in four specific sites of struggle in the City of Tshwane, and against the backdrop of the mission statement of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria, as well as the Capital Cities Research Project based in the same university. Reflecting on the ‘living death’ of millions of landless people on the one hand, and the privatisation of liberation on the other, it argues that a liberating praxis of engagement remains a necessity in order to break the violent silences that perpetuate exclusion.

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