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This study investigated appropriate pedagogical techniques for workplace e-learning programs in the South African wood products (furniture) manufacturing sector. The study found that learners responded favourably to constructivist teaching approaches, such as asynchronous discussions, open-ended task-based activities, and assignments incorporating authentic, real-world examples. Learners viewed constructivist activities to be more useful than quizzes and traditional essay-based assignments,...
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Abstract The question of what constitutes ‘a community’ or even ‘ the community’ takes on an extra salience in a divided society such as South Africa where the entire environment remains imprinted with the legacy of enforced segregation along racial lines. Higher education institutions need to prepare emerging health and social service students for the world of practice in a context of diversity, continuing segregation and marked inequality. As one step to helping students deal with working...
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In spite of its major development challenges, Africa is showing signs of a reversed trend: economies have been growing for the sixth consecutive year, conflicts are declining and many countries are now managing democratic political transitions. The continent now faces the best opportunity for growth in the past 30 years, as pessimism is gradually being replaced with greater confidence, assertiveness and optimism. The question that still remains critical is whether or not Africa will be able...
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Due to the synergistic and antagonistic relationships that exist in the environmental policy arena, environmental policies cannot be treated in isolation (Hayes, 2006). The concept of integrated environmental management serves as a useful activity to enhance the ability to manage a resource that is affected by anthropogenic activities (Pahl-Wostl, 2007). Integrated environmental management allows for a broad perspective to be taken, whereby all the possible trade-offs and benefits are...
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"Duerden, Prof. James Edwin, (died 4 Sept. 1937), Wool Researches, Torridon, Leeds; Hon. Fellow Zool., Leeds University; late Professor of Zoology, Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, South Africa, and Director of Wool Research, Union of S Africa, Grootfontein School of Agriculture" published on by Oxford University Press.
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"Kwapong, Alexander Adum, (8 March 1927–9 Aug. 2014), Director, African Programmes, Teacher Education, Research and Evaluation, The Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1991–93" published on by Oxford University Press.
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"Luthuli, Albert John, (1899–21 July 1967), African liberation leader; former Zulu chieftain; teacher; elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University, 1962 (but has not yet been able to come to Scotland)" published on by Oxford University Press.
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"Muchlinski, Prof. Peter Thomas, (born 18 Oct. 1957), Professor of International Commercial Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2005–16, now Emeritus" published on by Oxford University Press.
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"Muchlinski, Prof. Peter Thomas, (born 18 Oct. 1957), Professor of International Commercial Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2005–16, now Emeritus" published on by Oxford University Press.
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"Orenstein, Maj.-Gen. Alexander Jeremiah, (26 Sept. 1879–6 July 1972), late Director of Pneumoconiosis Research, South African Council of Scientific and Industrial Research; Hon. Fellow: Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; Institute of Water Pollution Control; RSocMed; Emeritus Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians; Fellow, American Public Health Association; Hon. Member, South African Institute of Mechanical Engineers, 1967; Chevalier Ordre de la Couronne, Belgium;...