Academic research
LitNet Akademies is LitNet's accredited academic journal. An extended English abstract is published with every article.
Postcolonial melancholia in Ronelda S Kamfer’s Hammie
2024-11-12"The poetic speaker, a coloured woman, and her community are enveloped in a pervasive melancholia that is passed down from generation to generation and continues to be fed by discrimination based on skin colour and gender that she experiences in the present."
Usefulness of ChatGPT-4V(ision) to analyse aerial photographs, factors which can drive adoption, and implications for Geography classrooms
2024-11-07"The purpose of this research was threefold, namely (a) to determine the usefulness of ChatGPT-4V to analyse aerial photographs, (b) to predict whether it would be adopted, and (c) to discuss the implications for Geography classrooms if ChatGPT-4V were adopted to analyse aerial photographs."
A network science exploration of the effectiveness of Afrikaner home remedies (boererate) with specific reference to the treatment of epilepsy and insomnia
2024-10-25"By applying network analysis to historical remedies like boererate, we can potentially identify promising ingredients and combinations for further investigation and possible integration into modern medicine."
The necessary coherence between happiness, unhappiness, and chance
2024-10-16"If happiness is simply about our good experiences, positive emotions, pleasure and enjoyment, other people and nature become mere objects to be used and consumed, and even destroyed in the case of nature, to obtain this happiness."
Career guidance in South African high schools: catastrophe or opportunity?
2024-10-07"In South Africa, the disparity in access to career guidance services between well-resourced and resource-poor schools remains a significant challenge."
The Africanisation of undergraduate courses in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Business Analysis (BA): A quantitative study of students’ experience
2024-10-07"It has been widely acknowledged that science has traditionally been monopolised by Western paradigms. Various fields in the social sciences have realised that research is necessary to create sensitivity to the need for decolonisation in these fields."
Teachers’ beliefs, teachers’ self-efficacy, teaching quality and instructional clarity: their relationship with South African learners’ mathematics achievement
2024-10-02"Policymakers and stakeholders should consider tailored training sessions for teachers. These programmes can focus on effective preparation techniques, such as optimising curriculum resources and integrating technology to streamline lesson planning."
The online dictionary-using skills and problems of editing students regarding a prototype academic editing dictionary
2024-10-02"These prerequisites and standards therefore make it clear that editors are expected to have good online dictionary-using skills, as well as knowledge about different types of dictionaries, including their structure, functions and use during the editing process."
The African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA): a strategic analysis utilising the ends-ways-means (EWM) model
2024-09-26"A major finding is that actions are useful in preventing conflict in certain situations, but in general are ineffective in creating conditions for peace and security. Diplomatic means do present mixed results in achieving the goal of peace and security."
Abrahamic eschatology and the affirmation of religious identities
2024-09-19"These narratives, embedded in the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, not only offer a vision of hope for the future but also function as powerful tools for mobilising religious communities, particularly in times of crisis."
“Her limits are shifting”: Die kontrak as new romantic fiction and erotic fiction in Afrikaans
2024-08-26"Die kontrak ["The contract"] contains all the necessary elements to be described as romantic fiction, but also sufficient elements of erotic fiction to carry the erotic and 18+ markers."
A psychoanalytic reading of the mother-daughter relationship in Jolyn Phillips’ radbraak
2024-08-23"In radbraak, the ambivalent nature of the relationship between the speaker and her female predecessors – whether symbolic or biological – comes under scrutiny with an emphasis on (toxic) traditions."
Two Cape Town statues of Jan Smuts and the imbalance in the monumental landscape in the Company’s Garden – a holistic proposal for retention, relocation and replacement
2024-08-19"To make the monumental landscape in and around the Company’s Garden more representative of all communities in South Africa, and considering the history of slavery in the Cape, it would be appropriate to move the second Smuts statue to another location."
Government transition under the Constitution without an outright party-political victor
2024-08-15"In consequence, the formation of a new government following a national election that fails to produce an outright victor might henceforth necessitate coalition governments with all its accompanying political and constitutional complexities."
Evaluation of online foreign language courses Gesellig Afrikaans 1 and 2 based on the proposed online teaching model for learning Afrikaans as a foreign language
2024-08-13"The research can contribute to the online teaching of foreign languages and, specifically, teaching a foreign language within a South African context and similar 'low-tech' environments regarding the challenges faced with internet connections (electricity) and data."
God, suffering and voices of protest
2024-08-07"For people of colour the theodicy question became acute during the apartheid era. They had experienced life under that system as an onslaught on their belief because the ruling political party purported to be Christian."
Violence in South African educational contexts: a feminist pedagogy
2024-08-06"By understanding the gender-based nature of violence, educators can identify and address the root causes of violence in schools."
An investigation into factors influencing ticket purchases for community-based children’s theatre: a qualitative approach
2024-08-01"Research has shown that exposure to the theatre from a young age provides various developmental advantages to children and encourages the development of a love for the theatre."
The use of Instagram in a task-based blended-learning approach for Afrikaans language acquisition students
2024-07-30"My research focused on the use of Instagram within a task-based blended-learning approach to help Afrikaans language acquisition students to learn new vocabulary."
Suggested process for the revision and updating of technical dictionaries
2024-07-23"Even Afrikaans, with its huge terminology heritage, is facing survival problems, and subject specialists, academics, language practitioners and even laypeople should participate in the process of creating Afrikaans terms ..."
