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Browsing Humanities by Type "Preprint Article"
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Pieterse, Jimmy
(Routledge, 2020)
This article outlines the history of stock-car racing in South Africa’s capital city until 1968. By reconstructing the histories of two raceways in Pretoria, it shows how stock-car and oval-track racing helped to (re)inscribe ...
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Gray, Rosemary A.
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2019)
As this prize-winning short story from Ben Okri’s Incidents at the Shrine (1993) is a child’s eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, I shall begin by briefly contextualizing Biafra’s quest for freedom in the late 1960s. I ...
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Kruger-Roux, Helena; Angu, Pineteh
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-10)
Over the past thirty years, the educational applications of subtitling, such as incidental language learning, improved literacy, and comprehension and retention of visual content, have been well documented. Seminal studies ...
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Eybers, Oscar Oliver; Kruger-Roux, Helena
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2021-09)
This study aims to identify the efficacy of social factors in the ways that first-year science students attempt to argue.
Argumentation is an essential tool used to produce scientific knowledge. As a linguistic phenomenon, ...
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White, Robyn May; Johnson, Ensa; Bornman, Juan
(Routledge, 2023)
Several international human rights conventions focus on ensuring access to justice for all. Based on their unique lived experiences, legal practitioners with disabilities have much to offer in terms of understanding – from ...
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Cassim, Fatima
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-06)
Today the changing nature of design practice and the role of design within a widening domain indicate that the survival of design as a profession may depend less on traditional design education and more on responding ...
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Jansson, Sara; San Martin, Tomas Rivera; Johnson, Ensa; Nilsson, Stefan
(Elsevier, 2019-10)
INTRODUCTION : Successful communication between staff and patients plays a key role in the well-being of critically ill patients within an intensive care unit. The use of augmentative and alternative communication strategies ...
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Bennett, Rebecca J.; Swanepoel, De Wet; Ratinaud, Pierre; Bailey, Abram; Pennebaker, James W.; Manchaiah, Vinaya
(Taylor and Francis, 2021)
OBJECTIVE : To explore the publicised opinions of consumers actively participating in online hearing aid reviews.
DESIGN : A retrospective design examining data generated from an online consumer review website ...
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Convery, Elizabeth; Keidser, Gitte; Caposecco, Andrea; Swanepoel, De Wet; Wong, Lena L.N.; Shen, Eed
(Routledge, 2013-06)
OBJECTIVE : The purpose of the study was twofold: (1) to assess the ability of hearing-impaired adults in the developing world to independently and accurately assemble a pair of hearing aids by following instructions that ...
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Sherwood, Nicole Leoni; Forssman, Tim
(Elsevier, 2024-02)
Sewing needles are often identified by their form rather than use-wear. As a result, some needles may be missed that do not conform to expected morphologies unless they are inspected more closely. Existing use-wear studies ...
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Eybers, Oscar Oliver
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-04)
Persistent South African dialogue around curricula decoloniality and epistemic pluralism in the higher education system evolves. However, an unresolved question between decolonial and global citizenship education advocates ...
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Reyburn, Duncan
(Michigan State University Press, 2021-05)
No abstract available.
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Von Fintel, Celeste; Eybers, Oscar Oliver
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-07)
This study critically reflects on the effectiveness of a new hybrid curriculum implemented in a heavily populated academic literacy module aimed at first-year students from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences ...
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Wright, Timothy
(University of Wisconsin Press, 2014-07)
No abstract available
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Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah; Adika, Gordon Senanu
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-12)
Students’ literacy levels, in particular their academic reading and writing, have been an area of concern in education for many years. Students who have high academic reading and writing proficiency are usually successful ...
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Mavuso, Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace
(Wiley, 2023-02)
Much reproductive scholarship presumes that cisgender men do not wish to become pregnant. And within scholarly discussions on womb transplant technology in particular, cis men's desires to be pregnant are constructed as ...
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Angu, Pineteh; Boakye, Naomi Adjoa Nana Yeboah; Eybers, Oscar Oliver
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020-02)
bstract: This article explores the concept of decolonization and its implications for the teaching of academic literacy in the Unit for Academic Literacy at a South African university. It draws on existing literature on ...
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Holmes, Carolyn E.
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-07)
This article explores the ethical difficulties that arise because of the interaction between fieldwork practitioners and their sites, in terms of the positionality of the researcher. What are the ethics of blending in or ...
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Reyburn, Duncan
(Michigan State University Press, 2014-09)
No abstract available
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Wagner, Claire; Maree, David J.F.
(Psychological Society of South Africa, 2007-04)
This article examines the ways in which academics who teach undergraduate research methodology courses conceptualise research and scholarship and the role these aspects play in the way they construct their courses. In-depth ...