A critical examination of concept analysis and its application to concepts of space in geography
- Authors: Welch, Sally Lynn
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Space perception , Geography -- Methodology
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:4807 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003721 , Space perception , Geography -- Methodology
- Description: Preface: Concept analysis utilising Piaget and Gagne's theories is an expanding area of research in the 'exact' sciences such as physics and chemistry. It is, however, new to the concepts in geography which are 'non-exact'. The thesis, then, is an exploratory study; and concept analysis is considered a possible methodology for examining the students' understanding of non-exact geography concepts. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first contains an examination of the theory of concept analysis and a critical review of empirical studies, with a view to applying concept analysis to the discipline of geography. The second part involves what has been termed a case study, where concepts are selected for analysis, and students were tested for their understanding of the concepts.
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- Authors: Welch, Sally Lynn
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Space perception , Geography -- Methodology
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:4807 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003721 , Space perception , Geography -- Methodology
- Description: Preface: Concept analysis utilising Piaget and Gagne's theories is an expanding area of research in the 'exact' sciences such as physics and chemistry. It is, however, new to the concepts in geography which are 'non-exact'. The thesis, then, is an exploratory study; and concept analysis is considered a possible methodology for examining the students' understanding of non-exact geography concepts. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first contains an examination of the theory of concept analysis and a critical review of empirical studies, with a view to applying concept analysis to the discipline of geography. The second part involves what has been termed a case study, where concepts are selected for analysis, and students were tested for their understanding of the concepts.
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A Piagetian programme of intervention: facilitation of conceptual change and cognitive growth
- Authors: Moore, Robert Soulsby
- Date: 1981
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3136 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006905
- Description: This research aims (within a strictly Piagetian framework) toward the development of a programme of intervention which will facilitate cognitive development, conceptual change and scientific literacy for those individuals who experience difficulty in coping with contemporary scientific and technological concepts. The research focuses specifically on the development of a diagnostic battery useful for realising a conceptual profile of the individual. This profile would indicate personal areas of functional interests that can be used creatively as a starting point for the facilitation of cognitive growth. The goal of such a programme is not the acceleration of cognitive growth, but rather the restoration of the individual to the mainstream of transactions in which the process of growth can flourish. The proposed facilitatory programme makes use of Piagetian tasks in a voluntary, individualist mode of instruction comparable to recently developed techniques of scientific education programmes. In brief, this research analyses three specific areas: 1) The development of a body of theory that can assist in the development of such a facilitatory programme, 2) The development of a diagnostic battery to provide insight into the individual's level of conceptual development, 3) The realization of certain guidelines for an instructional procedure whereby facilitation of growth can begin . The experiment takes the form of a pilot study of twenty four black and white subjects, exploring whether the battery of Piagetian tasks reveals a profile of conceptual development of the individual. Unique conceptual profiles were realized for all individuals, with evidence pointing towards the existence of a relationship between functional interests and the more advanced areas of the individual's conceptual development.
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- Authors: Moore, Robert Soulsby
- Date: 1981
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3136 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006905
- Description: This research aims (within a strictly Piagetian framework) toward the development of a programme of intervention which will facilitate cognitive development, conceptual change and scientific literacy for those individuals who experience difficulty in coping with contemporary scientific and technological concepts. The research focuses specifically on the development of a diagnostic battery useful for realising a conceptual profile of the individual. This profile would indicate personal areas of functional interests that can be used creatively as a starting point for the facilitation of cognitive growth. The goal of such a programme is not the acceleration of cognitive growth, but rather the restoration of the individual to the mainstream of transactions in which the process of growth can flourish. The proposed facilitatory programme makes use of Piagetian tasks in a voluntary, individualist mode of instruction comparable to recently developed techniques of scientific education programmes. In brief, this research analyses three specific areas: 1) The development of a body of theory that can assist in the development of such a facilitatory programme, 2) The development of a diagnostic battery to provide insight into the individual's level of conceptual development, 3) The realization of certain guidelines for an instructional procedure whereby facilitation of growth can begin . The experiment takes the form of a pilot study of twenty four black and white subjects, exploring whether the battery of Piagetian tasks reveals a profile of conceptual development of the individual. Unique conceptual profiles were realized for all individuals, with evidence pointing towards the existence of a relationship between functional interests and the more advanced areas of the individual's conceptual development.
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A preliminary validity study of the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule with a sample of the South African university population
- Authors: Dares, Anna Ewa
- Date: 1981
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:21178 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6771
- Description: The study investigated the validity of the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS) with a sample (N=l68) of the white South African undergraduate students. In terms of criterion- related validity, results indicated that ratings of external judges, unaware of their subjects' self-evaluation, correlated significantly with the assertiveness scores of the male subjects only. Construct validation of the RAS with ten personality traits measured by the Howarth Personality Questionnaire yielded results consistent with Wolpe's hypothesis that assertiveness relates inversely to anxiety. In addition, evidence was found to support the contention that assertiveness correlates negatively with inferiority. A principal components analysis of the RAS revealed a potentially useful factor structure for both males and females. A number of factors including situation-specific assertive behavior as well as factors measuring aggressiveness were identified for both sexes.
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- Authors: Dares, Anna Ewa
- Date: 1981
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:21178 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6771
- Description: The study investigated the validity of the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS) with a sample (N=l68) of the white South African undergraduate students. In terms of criterion- related validity, results indicated that ratings of external judges, unaware of their subjects' self-evaluation, correlated significantly with the assertiveness scores of the male subjects only. Construct validation of the RAS with ten personality traits measured by the Howarth Personality Questionnaire yielded results consistent with Wolpe's hypothesis that assertiveness relates inversely to anxiety. In addition, evidence was found to support the contention that assertiveness correlates negatively with inferiority. A principal components analysis of the RAS revealed a potentially useful factor structure for both males and females. A number of factors including situation-specific assertive behavior as well as factors measuring aggressiveness were identified for both sexes.
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A reappraisal of the governorship of Sir Benjamin D'Urban at the Cape of Good Hope, 1834-1838
- Lancaster, Jonathan Charles Swinburne
- Authors: Lancaster, Jonathan Charles Swinburne
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: D'Urban, Benjamin, Sir, 1777-1849 , Colonial administrators -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1795-1872
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2584 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005895
- Description: Preface: Sir Benjamin D'Urban only spent four years as Governor of the Cape Colony, yet to many people he is one of the most easily identifiable of all British Governors. The principal reason for this, it seems, is the continuing emphasis placed upon his short-lived settlement of the Colony's troublesome eastern frontier in 1835. The main objectives of this thesis have been to examine some of the most notable analyses of that settlement together with an attempt to remove D'Urban's governorship from the narrow and controversial confines imposed by his frontier policy. I have tried to place his governorship in the wider context of his day, examining the various controls upon him, and his overall role as Governor together with some of his administration's less well known but ultimately equally important aspects. In effect, I have tried to view D'Urban in 'the round '. The thesis makes no pretence at being a complete survey. Several important and possibly contributory aspects to a fuller understanding of D'Urban's Cape interlude - notably his ten years in various executive positions in the West Indies and British Guiana, and his period as commander-in-chief of the British army in Canada - were beyond the reach of anything more than a cursory review. Presumably there are documents relative to this period of D'Urban's life in the Archives in Montreal, Georgetown and London. D'Urban's reputation in South Africa continues to rest upon the short-lived system he established in 1835 and the great promise for future relations between black and white that many authors then and since saw in it, or alternately failed to see in it. With this in mind, and the realisation that 145 years and a succession of Governors, High Commissioners and Prime Ministers have passed since 1835, the following extract from the front page of The Daily Dispatch of 10 May, 1980, is revealing. It was reported that the Ciskei government demanded "all the land between the Kei and Fish Rivers, the Indian Ocean and the Stormberg Mountains to form the territory of an independent Ciskei ." The fundamental questions of to whom the land belongs and of how to establish a just modus vivendi with the Xhosa, which plagued both D'Urban's short administration and the Colonial Office for much of the Nineteenth Century are still with us today. Any analysis of his four year period as Governor of the Cape must necessarily be tempered by this realisation.
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- Authors: Lancaster, Jonathan Charles Swinburne
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: D'Urban, Benjamin, Sir, 1777-1849 , Colonial administrators -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1795-1872
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2584 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005895
- Description: Preface: Sir Benjamin D'Urban only spent four years as Governor of the Cape Colony, yet to many people he is one of the most easily identifiable of all British Governors. The principal reason for this, it seems, is the continuing emphasis placed upon his short-lived settlement of the Colony's troublesome eastern frontier in 1835. The main objectives of this thesis have been to examine some of the most notable analyses of that settlement together with an attempt to remove D'Urban's governorship from the narrow and controversial confines imposed by his frontier policy. I have tried to place his governorship in the wider context of his day, examining the various controls upon him, and his overall role as Governor together with some of his administration's less well known but ultimately equally important aspects. In effect, I have tried to view D'Urban in 'the round '. The thesis makes no pretence at being a complete survey. Several important and possibly contributory aspects to a fuller understanding of D'Urban's Cape interlude - notably his ten years in various executive positions in the West Indies and British Guiana, and his period as commander-in-chief of the British army in Canada - were beyond the reach of anything more than a cursory review. Presumably there are documents relative to this period of D'Urban's life in the Archives in Montreal, Georgetown and London. D'Urban's reputation in South Africa continues to rest upon the short-lived system he established in 1835 and the great promise for future relations between black and white that many authors then and since saw in it, or alternately failed to see in it. With this in mind, and the realisation that 145 years and a succession of Governors, High Commissioners and Prime Ministers have passed since 1835, the following extract from the front page of The Daily Dispatch of 10 May, 1980, is revealing. It was reported that the Ciskei government demanded "all the land between the Kei and Fish Rivers, the Indian Ocean and the Stormberg Mountains to form the territory of an independent Ciskei ." The fundamental questions of to whom the land belongs and of how to establish a just modus vivendi with the Xhosa, which plagued both D'Urban's short administration and the Colonial Office for much of the Nineteenth Century are still with us today. Any analysis of his four year period as Governor of the Cape must necessarily be tempered by this realisation.
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A study of the Presbyterian Church mission in the Transvaal from 1903-1960
- Authors: Boyd, Barry Graeme
- Date: 1981 , 2013-03-22
- Subjects: Presbyterian Church -- South Africa -- Transvaal , Missions -- South Africa -- Transvaal
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:1226 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006110 , Presbyterian Church -- South Africa -- Transvaal , Missions -- South Africa -- Transvaal
- Description: The aim of ·this study is to present a picture of the circumstances and the manner in which the mission was undertaken. With this in mind reference has been made to individual men and their particular importance and also to the decislons of the Church Assembly as they affected Mission. In part, the thesis is fuller for the earlier years, for the writer holds that these were the most formative as they established the pattern. Furthormore the writer wishes to make clear that the Mission become the work of black men with the white Mission Secretary of the 1950's filling an administrative role. This does not mean he was unimportant but for the nature of this study and its desire to ·emphasise the role of the black man, the work of these individual administrators has been largely omitted. In the concluding chapters the writer has shown the effects of political changes and African Nationalism on the Mission with a further chapter on the Mission's educational work. , KMBT_363 , Adobe Acrobat 9.53 Paper Capture Plug-in
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- Authors: Boyd, Barry Graeme
- Date: 1981 , 2013-03-22
- Subjects: Presbyterian Church -- South Africa -- Transvaal , Missions -- South Africa -- Transvaal
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:1226 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006110 , Presbyterian Church -- South Africa -- Transvaal , Missions -- South Africa -- Transvaal
- Description: The aim of ·this study is to present a picture of the circumstances and the manner in which the mission was undertaken. With this in mind reference has been made to individual men and their particular importance and also to the decislons of the Church Assembly as they affected Mission. In part, the thesis is fuller for the earlier years, for the writer holds that these were the most formative as they established the pattern. Furthormore the writer wishes to make clear that the Mission become the work of black men with the white Mission Secretary of the 1950's filling an administrative role. This does not mean he was unimportant but for the nature of this study and its desire to ·emphasise the role of the black man, the work of these individual administrators has been largely omitted. In the concluding chapters the writer has shown the effects of political changes and African Nationalism on the Mission with a further chapter on the Mission's educational work. , KMBT_363 , Adobe Acrobat 9.53 Paper Capture Plug-in
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An investigation into the nature and function of prescribed literature in schools and a comparative study of the required reading in English literature in school syllabuses in South Africa, Rhodesia and the ex-High Commission Territories from 1945-1980
- Authors: Marzo, Patricia Beatrice
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: English literature -- Study and teaching -- South Africa , English literature -- Study and teaching -- Zimbabwe , South African literature (English) -- Study and teaching , South African literature (English) -- History and criticism -- 20th century , Zimbabwean literature (English) -- History and criticism -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2273 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006887 , English literature -- Study and teaching -- South Africa , English literature -- Study and teaching -- Zimbabwe , South African literature (English) -- Study and teaching , South African literature (English) -- History and criticism -- 20th century , Zimbabwean literature (English) -- History and criticism -- 20th century
- Description: From preface: The original purpose of this thesis was to make a comparative study of all the English literature which had been prescribed from 1945 to 1980 for study by all high school pupils in the Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe and the ex-High Commission Territories. This proved to be a formidable task. However, most of the material collected, including all the individual poems prescribed, was recorded in table form. This proved too bulky a system for comparative purposes and the field was narrowed to include only that English literature which had been prescribed for candidates writing Matriculation or Senior Certificate examinations on the higher grade as part of the English Language syllabus. From time to time, however, reference will be made in this thesis to prescriptions for the lower grades and for the lower standards.
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- Authors: Marzo, Patricia Beatrice
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: English literature -- Study and teaching -- South Africa , English literature -- Study and teaching -- Zimbabwe , South African literature (English) -- Study and teaching , South African literature (English) -- History and criticism -- 20th century , Zimbabwean literature (English) -- History and criticism -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2273 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006887 , English literature -- Study and teaching -- South Africa , English literature -- Study and teaching -- Zimbabwe , South African literature (English) -- Study and teaching , South African literature (English) -- History and criticism -- 20th century , Zimbabwean literature (English) -- History and criticism -- 20th century
- Description: From preface: The original purpose of this thesis was to make a comparative study of all the English literature which had been prescribed from 1945 to 1980 for study by all high school pupils in the Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe and the ex-High Commission Territories. This proved to be a formidable task. However, most of the material collected, including all the individual poems prescribed, was recorded in table form. This proved too bulky a system for comparative purposes and the field was narrowed to include only that English literature which had been prescribed for candidates writing Matriculation or Senior Certificate examinations on the higher grade as part of the English Language syllabus. From time to time, however, reference will be made in this thesis to prescriptions for the lower grades and for the lower standards.
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Bailie's party of 1820 settlers
- Authors: Nash, M D
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Bailie, John, 1788-1852 , British settlers of 1820 (South Africa) , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Emigration and immigration , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2588 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006907 , Bailie, John, 1788-1852 , British settlers of 1820 (South Africa) , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Emigration and immigration , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History
- Description: From preface: This study of the British settlers of 1820 in South Africa uses one party of emigrants as a unit of historical research. In unfolding their story, it attempts to discover how far the standard assumptions about the 1820 settlement are borne out by the historical facts. No systematic set of hypotheses for investigation was established in advance; instead, the structure of the thesis has been determined by the course of the narrative, and the main issues have emerged spontaneously as it has progressed. Although the chronology has been maintained as far as possible, the narrative itself does not follow an entirely straightforward course. The emigrant party of eighty-four men and their families under the leadership of John Bailie which is the subject of the study was officially subdivided five weeks after landing at Algoa Bay, and the dispersal of its members to the established towns of the colony began even sooner. At the end of the three-year period laid down as a residential qualification by Government, less than a third remained to claim land on the party's location in Albany.
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- Authors: Nash, M D
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Bailie, John, 1788-1852 , British settlers of 1820 (South Africa) , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Emigration and immigration , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2588 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006907 , Bailie, John, 1788-1852 , British settlers of 1820 (South Africa) , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Emigration and immigration , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History
- Description: From preface: This study of the British settlers of 1820 in South Africa uses one party of emigrants as a unit of historical research. In unfolding their story, it attempts to discover how far the standard assumptions about the 1820 settlement are borne out by the historical facts. No systematic set of hypotheses for investigation was established in advance; instead, the structure of the thesis has been determined by the course of the narrative, and the main issues have emerged spontaneously as it has progressed. Although the chronology has been maintained as far as possible, the narrative itself does not follow an entirely straightforward course. The emigrant party of eighty-four men and their families under the leadership of John Bailie which is the subject of the study was officially subdivided five weeks after landing at Algoa Bay, and the dispersal of its members to the established towns of the colony began even sooner. At the end of the three-year period laid down as a residential qualification by Government, less than a third remained to claim land on the party's location in Albany.
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Freedom and form in the fiction of Doris Lessing
- Authors: Flischman, Rita
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2269 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005921 , Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Description: From Introduction: This thesis then is a detailed study of Lessing's novels in an attempt to show her development as a writer. Her short stories are handled briefly in connection with her novels. For, although the short stories are among her finest work, focus on the novels is sufficient to show her growth as a writer. Hers is the small individual struggle to overcome the limitations of both her content and her form. To overcome the limitations of her content means expanding her own consciousness and re-forming life itself. Only when she is free and the world is free can she overcome the limitations of her content. Then, of course, she need no longer and can no longer write. The task seems as impossible as that of the dung beetles, but she nevertheless continues. Like the sacred beetles with "the sun between their feet" she carries on rolling the muck of the world into symbols of the truth.
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- Authors: Flischman, Rita
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2269 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005921 , Lessing, Doris May, 1919- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Description: From Introduction: This thesis then is a detailed study of Lessing's novels in an attempt to show her development as a writer. Her short stories are handled briefly in connection with her novels. For, although the short stories are among her finest work, focus on the novels is sufficient to show her growth as a writer. Hers is the small individual struggle to overcome the limitations of both her content and her form. To overcome the limitations of her content means expanding her own consciousness and re-forming life itself. Only when she is free and the world is free can she overcome the limitations of her content. Then, of course, she need no longer and can no longer write. The task seems as impossible as that of the dung beetles, but she nevertheless continues. Like the sacred beetles with "the sun between their feet" she carries on rolling the muck of the world into symbols of the truth.
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In search of true humanity : a voice of protest
- Ntshebe, Ephraim Lulamile Cootler
- Authors: Ntshebe, Ephraim Lulamile Cootler
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Church and state -- South Africa Christianity and politics -- South Africa Apartheid -- Religious aspects Human rights -- South Africa Race relations -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:1221 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001551
- Description: My duty and aim in the writing of the thesis was neither based on scholarship nor on the fluttering of the dove coates of theological orthodoxy, but on the interpretation of the austere nature of the life of black people under the Nationalist Party rule of Apartheid. My duty, therefore, is that of an interpreter of the situation. There is nothing academic about apartheid. What is there is the monstrous evil perpetuated through the genius of the Afrikaner-Broederbond and the Afrikaans Churches and to a lesser extent by the liberal white community within the confines of South Africa (Introduction, p. vii)
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- Authors: Ntshebe, Ephraim Lulamile Cootler
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Church and state -- South Africa Christianity and politics -- South Africa Apartheid -- Religious aspects Human rights -- South Africa Race relations -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:1221 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001551
- Description: My duty and aim in the writing of the thesis was neither based on scholarship nor on the fluttering of the dove coates of theological orthodoxy, but on the interpretation of the austere nature of the life of black people under the Nationalist Party rule of Apartheid. My duty, therefore, is that of an interpreter of the situation. There is nothing academic about apartheid. What is there is the monstrous evil perpetuated through the genius of the Afrikaner-Broederbond and the Afrikaans Churches and to a lesser extent by the liberal white community within the confines of South Africa (Introduction, p. vii)
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Labour migration, marriage and family life in a Ciskei village
- Authors: Manona, Cecil Wele
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Migrant labor -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Ciskei
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2107 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006884
- Description: From introduction: The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyse the effects of labour migration on marriage and family life. The field material is from Burnshill, a village situated in the Keiskammahoek district in the Ciskei. Keiskammahoek is bounded on the East by the districts of King William's Town and Stutterheim, on the West and South by Middledrift and on the North by Cathcart. The inhabitants of Burnshill are overwhelmingly Xhosa and Mfengu (the main ethnic groups in the Ciskei) but also include a small proportion of people whose clans are of Mpondo and Thembu origin. This village has undergone extensive change. As we shall show later, it was settled de novo by the Mfengu and the Xhosa during the second half of the past century. This is one of the reasons why it lacks the homogeneity and continuity of cultural tradition which are predominant features of long-established communities.
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- Authors: Manona, Cecil Wele
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Migrant labor -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Ciskei
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2107 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006884
- Description: From introduction: The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyse the effects of labour migration on marriage and family life. The field material is from Burnshill, a village situated in the Keiskammahoek district in the Ciskei. Keiskammahoek is bounded on the East by the districts of King William's Town and Stutterheim, on the West and South by Middledrift and on the North by Cathcart. The inhabitants of Burnshill are overwhelmingly Xhosa and Mfengu (the main ethnic groups in the Ciskei) but also include a small proportion of people whose clans are of Mpondo and Thembu origin. This village has undergone extensive change. As we shall show later, it was settled de novo by the Mfengu and the Xhosa during the second half of the past century. This is one of the reasons why it lacks the homogeneity and continuity of cultural tradition which are predominant features of long-established communities.
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Schizophrenia and mysticism: a conceptual analysis
- Authors: Hammond, Carol Anne
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Schizophrenia , Mysticism
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3129 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006348 , Schizophrenia , Mysticism
- Description: From introduction: The aim of this thesis is to explore the "queer relationship'" existing between mysticism and madness as it emerges from psychological writings and to examine and re-evaluate the life of Joan of Arc in terms of the conceptual framework that emerges.
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- Authors: Hammond, Carol Anne
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Schizophrenia , Mysticism
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3129 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006348 , Schizophrenia , Mysticism
- Description: From introduction: The aim of this thesis is to explore the "queer relationship'" existing between mysticism and madness as it emerges from psychological writings and to examine and re-evaluate the life of Joan of Arc in terms of the conceptual framework that emerges.
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Some aspects of housing economics with reference to the coloured population of South Africa
- Authors: Farabi, Sadraddin
- Date: 1981 , 2013-04-02
- Subjects: Housing -- South Africa , Housing policy -- South Africa , Regional economics -- South Africa , Economic development -- South Africa , Colored people (South Africa) -- Housing , Colored people (South Africa) -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:1050 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006342 , Housing -- South Africa , Housing policy -- South Africa , Regional economics -- South Africa , Economic development -- South Africa , Colored people (South Africa) -- Housing , Colored people (South Africa) -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
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- Authors: Farabi, Sadraddin
- Date: 1981 , 2013-04-02
- Subjects: Housing -- South Africa , Housing policy -- South Africa , Regional economics -- South Africa , Economic development -- South Africa , Colored people (South Africa) -- Housing , Colored people (South Africa) -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:1050 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006342 , Housing -- South Africa , Housing policy -- South Africa , Regional economics -- South Africa , Economic development -- South Africa , Colored people (South Africa) -- Housing , Colored people (South Africa) -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
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The diary of James Brownlee
- Brown, Alastair Graham Kirkwood
- Authors: Brown, Alastair Graham Kirkwood
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries , South Africa -- History -- Frontier Wars, 1811-1878
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2598 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007678 , Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries , South Africa -- History -- Frontier Wars, 1811-1878
- Description: James Brownlee was born in April 1824. He was the second of three sons (and five daughters) born to the missionary John Brownlee, and his colonial born wife Catharine. The importance of James as an historical character is obscured by that of his father and elder brother Charles. James had a varied career which was cut short by his untimely death in March 1851 at the youthful age of twenty-six years and eleven months. We are fortunate that he has left a vivid account of several aspects of the seventh Frontier War in a diary which he kept from April to September 1846. The diary also points to the significance of his family in the history of the Eastern Cape. Thesis, p. 1.
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- Authors: Brown, Alastair Graham Kirkwood
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries , South Africa -- History -- Frontier Wars, 1811-1878
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2598 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007678 , Brownlee, James, 1824-1851 -- Diaries , South Africa -- History -- Frontier Wars, 1811-1878
- Description: James Brownlee was born in April 1824. He was the second of three sons (and five daughters) born to the missionary John Brownlee, and his colonial born wife Catharine. The importance of James as an historical character is obscured by that of his father and elder brother Charles. James had a varied career which was cut short by his untimely death in March 1851 at the youthful age of twenty-six years and eleven months. We are fortunate that he has left a vivid account of several aspects of the seventh Frontier War in a diary which he kept from April to September 1846. The diary also points to the significance of his family in the history of the Eastern Cape. Thesis, p. 1.
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The poetry of Guy Butler
- Authors: Van der Mescht, Hennie
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Butler, Guy, 1918-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation , South African poetry (English)
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2256 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004387 , Butler, Guy, 1918-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation , South African poetry (English)
- Description: This study of ButIer's poetry proceeds chronologically in accordance with the dates of composition of his poems. The first task has, therefore, been the compilation of a chronology of his poems. Butler rarely dates his poems; nor does he keep a diary. Yet there are several criteria which make sensible dating of his poems possible. The first is the date of publication of individual poems. Many of the poems which appear in one or more of the five collections were published earlier in army magazines, student newspapers, and the like. A work which can be traced back to one of these early sources may be assumed to have been written fairly soon before its date of publication. Another criterion is subject. It is possible to discern periods in the poet's career in relation to the subjects of his poems. The most obvious example is the War Period. Allied to subject is the criterion of theme. To use the War Period again, poems written during or immediately after the war years all treat the theme of man's dehumanisation. Both subject and theme are linked with biography. It is often possible to ascertain Butler's location from details in the poem; knowledge of his movements thus enables one to date such a poem. Butler's style is the most significant criteion. This study is based on the observation that his style develops as time passes. The Butler of the Sixties is different from the Butler of the Fifties as far as style of writing is concerned. A poem which defies dating on all other grounds cannot escape this ultimate test. Each of these criteria - date of publication, subject matter and theme linked to biography, and style - has limited reliability as a guide to dating the poems. But combined they are a meaningful instrument to assist in the structuring of a chronology whose most valuable source was the poet himself who was kind enough to search his memory for dates. The fact that Butler rewrote or revised a number of his poems several times does of course raise the question: Is the first version merely a stage in the development of the poem, or a poem in its own right? This study is based on the opinion that a poem is a poem, regardless of the number of versions which precede or follow it, provided it is a complete statement. Each version should, in fact, be regarded as representative of the poet's thoughts, feelings, and skills at the time he wrote it, and is lndependent of subsequent versions. For the purposes of this chronology, poems have been placed at the time of the experience from which they grew. This thesis does, however , take cognizance of the ehanges in style or theme later versions may reveal.
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- Authors: Van der Mescht, Hennie
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Butler, Guy, 1918-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation , South African poetry (English)
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2256 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004387 , Butler, Guy, 1918-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation , South African poetry (English)
- Description: This study of ButIer's poetry proceeds chronologically in accordance with the dates of composition of his poems. The first task has, therefore, been the compilation of a chronology of his poems. Butler rarely dates his poems; nor does he keep a diary. Yet there are several criteria which make sensible dating of his poems possible. The first is the date of publication of individual poems. Many of the poems which appear in one or more of the five collections were published earlier in army magazines, student newspapers, and the like. A work which can be traced back to one of these early sources may be assumed to have been written fairly soon before its date of publication. Another criterion is subject. It is possible to discern periods in the poet's career in relation to the subjects of his poems. The most obvious example is the War Period. Allied to subject is the criterion of theme. To use the War Period again, poems written during or immediately after the war years all treat the theme of man's dehumanisation. Both subject and theme are linked with biography. It is often possible to ascertain Butler's location from details in the poem; knowledge of his movements thus enables one to date such a poem. Butler's style is the most significant criteion. This study is based on the observation that his style develops as time passes. The Butler of the Sixties is different from the Butler of the Fifties as far as style of writing is concerned. A poem which defies dating on all other grounds cannot escape this ultimate test. Each of these criteria - date of publication, subject matter and theme linked to biography, and style - has limited reliability as a guide to dating the poems. But combined they are a meaningful instrument to assist in the structuring of a chronology whose most valuable source was the poet himself who was kind enough to search his memory for dates. The fact that Butler rewrote or revised a number of his poems several times does of course raise the question: Is the first version merely a stage in the development of the poem, or a poem in its own right? This study is based on the opinion that a poem is a poem, regardless of the number of versions which precede or follow it, provided it is a complete statement. Each version should, in fact, be regarded as representative of the poet's thoughts, feelings, and skills at the time he wrote it, and is lndependent of subsequent versions. For the purposes of this chronology, poems have been placed at the time of the experience from which they grew. This thesis does, however , take cognizance of the ehanges in style or theme later versions may reveal.
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Trapped identity in the novels of Dan Jacobson
- Authors: Bekker, Janine
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Jacobson, Dan -- Criticism and interpretation , Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2260 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004545 , Jacobson, Dan -- Criticism and interpretation , Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
- Description: Dan Jacobson has written short stories, many non-fiction articles and eight novels: The Trap (1955), A Dance in The Sun (1956), The Price of Diamonds (1957), The Evidence of Love (1959), The Beginners (1966), The Rape of Tamar (1970), The Wonder-Worker (1973), and · The Confessions of Josef Baisz (1977) . The first five are all set in South Africa, though Jacobson has been living in England since 1954, i.e. since before his first novel was published. A distinct break in terms of subject matter and voice occurs after The Beginners , giving Jacobson what he calls "two rounds as a novelist. But critics recognizing this break seem not to have recognized that all eight novels are linked by certain thematic preoccupations, notably the notion of the trapped identity, which this thesis will attempt to demonstrate. On a first reading of Jacobson's work one is drawn to affirm his portrayal of the position of the white English-speaking South African, but a closer reading reveals that he does not speak as vitally to the South African situation as he seems to, or has been taken to do. Why this should be so is the second main concern of this thesis. In the first chapter the expectations underlying English literary activity in South Africa are outlined, as this is a necessary background to the discussion of Jacobson's South African novels. (Introduction, p. 4)
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- Authors: Bekker, Janine
- Date: 1981
- Subjects: Jacobson, Dan -- Criticism and interpretation , Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2260 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004545 , Jacobson, Dan -- Criticism and interpretation , Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
- Description: Dan Jacobson has written short stories, many non-fiction articles and eight novels: The Trap (1955), A Dance in The Sun (1956), The Price of Diamonds (1957), The Evidence of Love (1959), The Beginners (1966), The Rape of Tamar (1970), The Wonder-Worker (1973), and · The Confessions of Josef Baisz (1977) . The first five are all set in South Africa, though Jacobson has been living in England since 1954, i.e. since before his first novel was published. A distinct break in terms of subject matter and voice occurs after The Beginners , giving Jacobson what he calls "two rounds as a novelist. But critics recognizing this break seem not to have recognized that all eight novels are linked by certain thematic preoccupations, notably the notion of the trapped identity, which this thesis will attempt to demonstrate. On a first reading of Jacobson's work one is drawn to affirm his portrayal of the position of the white English-speaking South African, but a closer reading reveals that he does not speak as vitally to the South African situation as he seems to, or has been taken to do. Why this should be so is the second main concern of this thesis. In the first chapter the expectations underlying English literary activity in South Africa are outlined, as this is a necessary background to the discussion of Jacobson's South African novels. (Introduction, p. 4)
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