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Authors: Berger, Guy
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159835 , vital:40348 , DOI: 10.1080/02560054.2005.9653329
Description: Debate about the extent to which university education should serve industry is an important consideration for institutions of higher learning in a transforming South Africa, and particularly for those teaching would-be journalists. This issue can also be profitably analysed with reference to the current framework of the South African education authorities who argue that the quality of higher education institutions should be measured in terms of their “fit for purpose” to missions aligned to stakeholder interests in the transformation of the country as a whole. This criterion for quality assessment tends to focus on the educative processes within a university, but it can be argued that it ought to extend into the examination of the output consequences of journalism teaching. This would amount to not just fitness for purpose, but also achievement of purpose – and the latter including a creative and critical impact.
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Authors: Garman, Anthea , Mwale, Pascal N
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159968 , vital:40360 , DOI: 10.1080/02560054.2005.9653325
Description: Book Review: Black, white and grey: Ethics in South African journalism by Franz Krüger Cape Town, Double Storey, 2004. Reviewed by Anthea Garman and Pascal N. Mwale.
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Authors: Jamal, Ashraf
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147902 , vital:38683 , DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2010.511888
Description: The work of contemporary South African artist, mark Hipper, has been dogged by controversy.
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Authors: Sinchembe, M , Ellery, William F N
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144343 , vital:38337 , DOI: 10.2989/16085914.2010.538508
Description: Wetland hydrological health and the provision of indirect ecosystem services in the eMthonjeni–Fairview Spring Wetland, Grahamstown, South Africa, were assessed in 2008, using the newly developed wetland assessment tools WET-Health and WET-EcoServices. Variation in health and ecosystem services were assessed over time, based on aerial photograph interpretation and the use of the score sheets in these assessment tools. Hydrological health and indirect ecosystem services of the wetland have been altered since 1949, due to human activities both in the catchment and the wetland. The most significant human intervention on the wetland's hydrological health was the result of road construction and invasion by alien plants. Water use by local residents had an unmeasurable effect on hydrological health. Wetland health is related to the provision of wetland ecosystem services, and cumulative impacts in the catchment and wetland have reduced the provision of many indirect wetland ecosystem services.
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Authors: Garman, Anthea
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159846 , vital:40349 , DOI: 10.1080/02560054.2005.9653330
Description: Debates about whether journalism is a “trade” and can only be learnt “on the job”, or whether journalism should even be taught at universities, are no longer fruitful or even interesting for teachers in tertiary environments. The far more important discussion around the teaching of journalism should be on the approach which focuses too exclusively on its nature as a “profession” and so ignores the critical function of journalists in the world as “interpretive communities”.
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Authors: Strelitz, Larry N , Steenveld, Lynette N
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159825 , vital:40347 , DOI: 10.1080/02560054.2005.9653337
Description: A popular view of tabloids is that they pander to the lowest common denominator of public taste, they simplify complex issues, and they generally fail to provide information that citizens need in order to make informed political judgments - the latter being the raison d’etre of serious newspapers. In summary, tabloids “lower the standards of public discourse” (Ornerbring and Jonson, 2004:283).
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Authors: Linneweber-Lammerskitten, Helmut , Schäfer, Marc , Samson, Duncan
Date: 2010
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140949 , vital:37931 , https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC20930
Description: This paper describes a collaborative research and development project between the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland and Rhodes University in South Africa. The project seeks to establish, disseminate and research the efficacy and use of short video clips designed specifically for the autonomous learning of mathematics. Specific to the South African context is our interest in capitalising on the ubiquity of cellphone technology and the autonomous affordances offered by mobile learning. This paper engages with a number of theoretical and pedagogical issues relating to the design, production and use of these video clips. Although the focus is specific to the contexts of South Africa and Switzerland, the discussion is of broad applicability.
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