Incorporating indigenous knowledge in the teaching of isiXhosa to pharmacy students at Rhodes University
- Authors: Mapi, Thandeka Priscilla
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: Rhodes University. Academic Development Programme Healers -- South Africa Traditional medicine -- South Africa Xhosa language -- Study and teaching -- South Africa Pharmacy -- Study and teaching -- South Africa Ethnoscience -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3622 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007469
- Description: Traditional healing is one of the most trusted methods of healing in South Africa, especially in rural areas, where health-care infrastructure is inadequate. People have depended on this method of healing since time immemorial. That belief has been strengthened by the fact that this method keeps people in touch with their ancestors. Traditional healers are trusted and believed to be the link between people and their ancestors. The Dwesa community is amongst the areas that still have strong belief in traditional healing. Traditional healers have a variety of methods of healing that they use, these methods have been trusted for people of all age groups. These methods are ukugabha, ukufutha and ukucima. Traditional healers prescribe them for both major and minor illnesses. They are believed to play a role in cleansing people from inside and outside. These methods together with other methods that are used in traditional healing are being explored in this study. This exploration is based on the fact that this information will be integrated into the teaching of isiXhosa to Pharmacy students at Rhodes University. This is an initiative to create awareness amongst health-care practitioners about traditional healing methods, so that they can caution and advise their patients about medicine taking behaviours, also to make them approach the subject in a sensitive manner. An isiXhosa course has been taught to Pharmacy students, as a pilot in 2007 and as an elective in 2008 onwards. This course deals with cultural issues in a broad manner, the issue of traditional healing specifically, and these methods of healing are outlined in the course, such that students have an understanding first of what a traditional healer is and their role in providing health-care services.
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Intercultural communication in three Eastern Cape HIV/AIDS clinics
- Authors: Mandla, Veliswa Maureen
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: Intercultural communication -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape HIV-positive persons -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape HIV-positive persons -- Medical care -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Xhosa language -- Study and teaching -- English speakers Physician and patient -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Communication in medicine -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3585 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002160
- Description: There are many inequities that exist in health-care that stem from culture related communication misunderstandings. In most cases where doctors and patients from different cultural and linguistic background interact, doctors use medical language which is different from everyday language used by patients. Patients enter this communication context with anxiety because they depend on the physicians to give them accurate information concerning their health, but they do not always understand all the terms used by physicians to inform them about their conditions. In some cases interpreters are used but their expertise is often inadequate and the interpreting of the patient’s statements to the health staff is also prone to distortion by interpreter / doctor because of the lack of proper understanding of the messages / languages. This may result in a deterioration of the patient’s health condition and unavoidable complications.
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The evolving image of the German Democratic republic as reflected in the works of Jurek Becker and Christa Wolf
- Authors: Williams, Alison Elizabeth
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: Becker, Jurek, 1937-1997 Wolf, Christa German fiction -- Germany (East) -- 20th Century Germany (East) -- History -- 20th Century Germany (East) In literature
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3584 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002159
- Description: The primary objective of this thesis is to demonstrate the direct relationship between history and literature, with particular reference to literature published in the German Democratic Republic. It explores the period of history from 1945 to 1990 describing the collapse of National Socialist Germany after World War Two; the formation of the Federal Republic of Germany in the West and the German Democratic Republic in the East in 1949; the historical, political and cultural evolution of East Germany until the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, and finally the absorption of the German Democratic Republic into the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990.
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Vocational language learning and how it relates to language policy issues
- Authors: Maseko, Pamela
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: Language policy -- South Africa Language and education -- South Africa Language and languages -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- South Africa Multilingualism -- South Africa Education, Higher -- South Africa Vocational education -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3583 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002158
- Description: This research explores issues relating to language policy, and language learning and teaching. It further looks at the relationship that exists between language policy and language learning and teaching. In the research I argue that well-thought out and well-meaning language policies will fail to be implemented meaningfully if there is no clear and unambiguous implementation plan. I also note that the national vision and ideals which are often embodied in the language policy fail to take effect if, again, there is no comprehensive implementation plan. This view is held by many scholars and researchers in the areas of language policy and planning.
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