Academic research

LitNet Akademies is LitNet's accredited academic journal. An extended English abstract is published with every article.

The epistemic considerations underlying the Neo-Calvinist rejection of the theocratic constituent of article 36 of the Belgic Confession of Faith

J.A. Schlebusch Academic research 2022-03-28

"In the light of the fact that these Neo-Calvinist pioneers so vehemently rejected any dichotomy between the nature of authority in the ecclesiastical sphere on the one hand and the socio-political sphere on the other, I propose a renewed appraisal of their epistemology as fundamentally underlying their rejection of theocracy."

Grade 9 learners’ experiences of formative assessment for language development in Afrikaans Home Language

Natalie Smith, Marguerite Müller, Edwin Darrell de Klerk Academic research 2022-03-22

"Not only does formative assessment provide opportunities for learners’ language development to be improved, but it also serves as a compass that can be utilised by teachers to make important future decisions about assessment."

Compilation of multimodal reflective learner portfolios in the Intermediate and Senior Phases to promote self-directed reading processes

Ronel van Oort Academic research 2022-03-09

"The South African school curriculum does not prescribe a reading dossier, but the Dutch reading dossier model can serve as a guideline for the compilation of an MRL."

Contested statehood: The TBVC states in comparative international perspective

Deon Geldenhuys Academic research 2022-03-07

"Against this background the main aim of the present article is to examine the TBVC entities in the context of other contested states, drawing on theoretical insights developed in recent academic studies."

The industrialisation of mimesis: In dialogue with the thought of René Girard and Bernard Stiegler on automatisation

Johann Rossouw Academic research 2022-03-03

In this article automatisation as an important aspect of artificial intelligence is analysed with reference to the thought of Bernard Stiegler and René Girard, with specific attention to Stiegler’s book La société automatique 1. L’Avenir du travail.

Wonderment despite woundedness. Being encapsulated between a sense of mortality and the germination of immortality ‒ reframing ageing, dying, death and entombment within the spiritual aesthetics of a pneumatic body

Daniël Louw Academic research 2022-02-28

"The theological argument is developed that despite bodily decay, dying and death should be approached from an eschatological perspective of wonderment ‒ a corpse as 'germinable seed'."

Searching for legal certainty in the confusion between abduction, kidnapping and human trafficking

Beatri Kruger Academic research 2022-02-23

"Apart from detailing the distinct differences between abduction, kidnapping and human trafficking, this article brings to light overlapping and connecting relationships between these offences."

From there to where? An overview of the restandardisation debate of Afrikaans

Earl Basson Academic research 2022-02-23

"Including Cape Afrikaans in Afrikaans school textbooks creates the opportunity to present Afrikaans as the sum of its varieties and to establish the varieties as legitimate language systems."

"dié dag, / leef jy twee maal": Anna Neethling-Pohl’s translation of twenty five Shakespeare sonnets as performative speech acts

Danie Stander Academic research 2022-02-02

"Neethling-Pohl’s sonnet translations are not merely analysed as texts that are verbally converted from English into Afrikaans, but also in terms of embodiment ..."

Community opposition to urban development in town planning: Two case studies of place attachment experiences of residents of the Bult, Potchefstroom, with specific reference to displacement literature

Tarina Jordaan, Karen Puren Academic research 2022-01-25

"Planning and developing urban environments lead to small-scale incremental environmental changes, which can threaten inhabitants’ place attachments and lead to individuals’ opposing the environmental changes."

John Chrysostom’s pedagogical exegesis: The case of the tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9)

Chris L de Wet Academic research 2022-01-11

"Thus, the article demonstrates that Chrysostom’s exegesis displays a clear pedagogical nature. He is less concerned with theological matters, as is seen with some other interpreters of the text, such as Augustine. Chrysostom rather wants to provide his audience with practical guidelines on how to behave and which good habits to cultivate."

An analysis of nostalgia-driven advertising in South African magazines

Adéle Kotzé, Angelique van Niekerk Academic research 2022-01-04

"Although the various types of objectification are represented in the different categories of nostalgia, the incidence of emotional objectification is remarkable and understandable, given that nostalgia-driven advertising relates primarily to the emotions of the target market."

The origins of (Dutch) Afrikaans journalism, the period in which it developed, and Abraham Faure as pioneer

Lizette Rabe Academic research 2021-12-17

"Faure can be described as pioneer journalist in Dutch (and thus later Afrikaans) journalism at the Cape in the early 19th century as founding editor of HNZAT as well as the two later religious magazines."

A multi-perspective reflection on euthanasia 

Jaco Beyers Academic research 2021-12-15

"A balance is necessary: protect life, but do not prevent death at all costs. What should weigh more heavily – the right to live or the right to die?"

Barriers in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural paediatric speech-language therapy and strategies for promoting culturally safe practices: a scoping review

Mariëtte Botha, Berna Gerber, Anita van der Merwe Academic research 2021-12-14

"Culturally and linguistically diverse countries such as South Africa require speech-language therapy services that are accessible and culturally safe."

Mysticism as manifested in “Christ of the burnt men” by Sheila Cussons

Elizabeth van der Berg Academic research 2021-12-13

"The conclusion is reached that this poem is indeed an excellent example of mystical poetry in which Cussons does not only succeed in expressing her experience evocatively and poignantly, but also in moving the reader to participate in her divine encounter."

Initiation at schools: an investigation into popular discourses

Eduard Potgieter, Corene de Wet, Lynette Jacobs Academic research 2021-12-13

"It transpires from this and other South African studies that illegal initiation practices are still the order of the day at some schools in this country."

"I will call on him as long as I live": An investigation into the theological intention of Psalm 116

Fanie Snyman Academic research 2021-12-10

"This research originated in the midst of the third wave of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, and the theological message of the psalm, then, is also linked to this situation."

The marginalised positioning of teachers at a special needs school in Cape Town by neoliberal management practices

Elzahn Rinquest Academic research 2021-12-08

"It is also found that Canaan’s institutional tone has come to be characterised by a discourse of managerialism. This institutional culture provides the context within which the teachers act and operate, which, in essence, isolates them in their classrooms."

Help! My teaching practice is a dilemma: Ethics policies for teaching practice

Carike Kriel, Candice Livingston, Chiwimbiso M Kwenda Academic research 2021-12-07

"Unethical relationships between the in-service teachers and pre-service teachers seem to be common and often there appears to be a lack of supervision and mentoring during teaching practice."

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