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Close to three decades have passed since South Africa’s apartheid government negotiated itself out of power. The negotiations paved the way for a non-racial, multiparty democracy. Although the transition was portrayed as a fairy tale come true, the question remains what the future holds for this new democracy and the potential for its consolidation. This chapter aims to evaluate the progress made in post-apartheid South Africa’s transition to a democratic, inclusive community. It analyses...
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Affordance perspectives have gained traction among information systems (IS) scholars and have seen recent adoption in ICT4D research. Although scholars recognize the need to differentiate between mere technology use and higher-level organizational and societal IT affordances, no clear terminology for the representation of affordance granularity exists. This paper introduces “mid-level IT affordances”, which, we argue, emerge from technology use and serve as prerequisites for the...
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GIS and open data are clearly an asset for the construction sector, especially during the planning phase and for logistic.Sustainability is a topic that cannot be disregarded anymore and particularly relevant for the construction sector as one of the most energy and material consuming sectors.In areas where climate change is already a reality and pre-conditions already challenging, the use of available technologies might make a vital difference if properly adopted in projects.This paper...
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Class-Based Communities: The Postcolonial Reform of School Education in South AfricaVeit, A. - 2022
Abstract When the African National Congress (ANC) assumed governmental powers in South Africa in 1994, it needed to confront the enormous educational disparities created by apartheid and colonial rule. However, remaining true to the ideals of the democratic struggle while also following neoliberal prescriptions of fiscal austerity presented a massive contradiction. To appease anxious white middle-class parents and offer new opportunities to its non-white constituency, the new government...
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The continued poor performances of grade 12 learners in Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary level (NSSCO) Biology in the //Kharas region of Namibia has become a major public concern.Thus, this study investigated the challenges affecting Grade 12 learners' performance in NSSCO Biology in the //Kharas Region, Namibia.Two categories of the sample, consisting of 140 grade 12 learners and 12 Biology teachers were selected using the simple random sampling method to complete learners and...
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The purpose of the study was to examine student teachers on supervisors' role in practical physical education lessons in the Colleges of Education in Ghana.Quantitatively the study adopted descriptive survey as research design.The population of the study consisted of 1,180, respondents selected from OLA College of Education, Wiawso College of Education, Wesley College of Education, Enchi College of Education, Komenda College of Education and Fosu Colleges of Education which comprised 613...
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Drought forecasting provides an early warning for the effective management of water resources to avoid or mitigate drought damage.In this study, the prediction of droughts is carried out in the department of Alibori in Benin republic using the standardized precipitation index (SPI) where two Machine Learning approaches were used to set up the drought prediction models which were Random Forest (RF) and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBOOST).The performance of these models was reported using...
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In Northwestern Cameroon, the northwest flank of Mount Oku forms part of the continental sector of the Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL).It is one of the stratovolcanoes that forms the Oku Volcanic complex and lies between 10º9ꞌ0ꞌꞌE and 10º19ꞌ0ꞌꞌE, and latitude 6º18ꞌ0ꞌꞌN and 6º28ꞌ0ꞌꞌN.The aim of this paper is to bring new insight into the volcanic rocks of the NW flank of the complex taking into consideration the petrography, geochemistry and the mineral compositions of the volcanic rocks in the...
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Purpose of work. The article examines the linguistic situation in modern South Africa after the end of Apartheid. One question is the importance of a concept of mother tongue education in the RSA. What difficulties Afrikaans speakers, mainly the Afrikaners and the Coloureds, have regarding the use of their mother tongue in education and how such challenges can be addressed; does this provide a basis for building a new common cultural, national identity. Materials and methods. The author...
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Lecturers were still in the throes of transforming curricula and aligning assessments to meet the needs of decolonisation when the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020. Instant changes regarding assessment had to be made to keep the integrity of university standards intact whilst moving to a form of online teaching. Lecturers were faced with instant decision-making to save the academic year and did not have time to do much research to select the best possible options for their...
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Subsidization of the public secondary school education by the government of Kenya in 2008 witnessed a tremendous growth in the student population at this level of education. This scenario led to an over enrollment and a strain on the existing learning facilities and infrastructure in most public secondary schools in Kenya, including those in Bungoma County . Under these circumstances, the question that remained unanswered was ; what was the effect of the subsidized secondary education policy...
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Teacher education is a global profession that needs to be understood properly. It is essential to grasp a global perspective of the profession as it is today, to make assumptions about it in the near future and to utilize the best thinking and instructional models available in the present times. Professionally, teaching is very important and increasing in our contemporary society as a result of the stream of dynamic initiatives of human development and evolution. Due to the recent...
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At least, over the past four decades post-colonial African higher education has undergone significant changes in the quest to cultivate democratic educational / pedagogical actions in universities. From its early insistence on deliberative action (Waghid 2001), more recently, it assumed the forms of both ethical pursuits (Davids and Waghid 2016) and caring (Waghid 2019). Yet, as South Africa continues its unprecedented transition into a democracy, it is becoming abundantly evident that what...