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Browsing Books (Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS)) by Title
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Affirmative action : a view from the global South
(SUN MeDIA, 2014)Affirmative Action: A View from the Global South provides insight into a range of aspects of the affirmative action policies in seven countries from Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East. In addition to these ... -
Childhood vulnerabilities in South Africa : some ethical perspectives
(African Sun Media, 2020)"This book addresses different challenges that endanger the lives of children in South Africa from an ethical perspective. The text is meant to position itself as a resource for specialists (and practitioners) in ethics ... -
Contemporary issues in South African military psychology
(African Sun Media, 2020)"Contemporary Issues in South African Military Psychology, is a well‑timed, extremely thought-provoking, imperative, particular to the African context, and deals with a highly contemporary issue within the people management ... -
Education first! : from Martin Luther to sustainable development
(SUN MeDIA, 2017)“This scholarly yet highly accessible volume by two renowned experts shows why education is under threat, and what should be done to counter this. The authors mobilise a fascinating array of compelling historical and current ... -
The effects of race
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2018)The STIAS research theme on Being Human Today explores the interrelated questions: What does it mean to be human? And: What is the nature of the world in which we aspire to be human? In the context of post-apartheid South ... -
Fault lines : a primer on race, science and society
(African Sun Media, 2020)What is the link, if any, between race and disease? How did the term baster as ‘mixed race’ come to be mistranslated from ‘incest’ in the Hebrew Bible? What are the roots of racial thinking in South African universities? ... -
Grace upon grace : reflections on the meaning of life
(African Sun Media, 2020)In this deeply personal book, well-known Cilliers themes – including meaning-making, sermons, modern art, colours, Stellenbosch wines, and the Karoo – emerge in a surprisingly new way. They connect with intensely happy and ... -
Health in transition : translating developmental origins of health and disease science to improve future health in Africa
(African Sun Media, 2020)"At STIAS, the ‘Health in Transition’ theme includes a programme to address the epidemic rise in the incidence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, obesity, coronary heart disease and ... -
A Luta Continua : a history of media freedom in South Africa
(African Sun Media, 2020)"What has media freedom entailed over the couple of centuries and successive governments of the geopolitical region that became South Africa since it was colonised by Westerners? And why can media freedom be described as ... -
Mother Earth, Mother Africa & African indigenous religions
(African Sun Media, 2020)Africans embrace all of life, the humanity of each person, the world, and the creation of God. Consequently, African indigenous education reflects the completeness of life itself. The various chapters in this volume recount ... -
Persistence of race
(African Sun Media, 2020)This is the third and final group of essays emerging from the discussions of the Effects of Race Project at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) that occurred in 2016 and 2017. The authors consider the ... -
Race in education
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2019)There is global evidence that “ghosts” of notions of essentialist differences between human “groups” continue to haunt in various forms. People draw upon ideas of religion, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and nation ... -
(Re-)examining the standard Kiswahili alphabet in the teaching syllabus for lower secondary schools in Uganda
(Stellenbosch University, 2020)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Kiswahili is a foreign language (FL) in Uganda. Formally, the teaching of Kiswahili begins in the lower secondary phase. In this phase, Kiswahili had been taught for many years without an authorised ... -
Reconciliation, forgiveness and violence in Africa : biblical, pastoral and ethical perspectives
(African Sun Media, 2020)BOOK BLURB: What might reconciliation and forgiveness mean in relation to various forms of personal, structural, and historical violence across the African continent? This volume of essays seeks to engage these complex, ... -
Sights, sounds, memories : South African soldier experiences of the Second World War
(African Sun Media, 2020)The Second World War involved most of the countries of the world and left so many millions dead and maimed, disorganised and devastated through personal and communal loss. This book recovers some of South Africa’s soldiers’ ... -
Solank ek hier is : oor die soeke na sin
(African Sun Media, 2020)In hierdie diep persoonlike boek maak bekende Cilliers temas – insluitend die skep van sin, prediking, moderne kuns, kleur, Stellenbosse wyne, en die Karoo – op ’n verrassend nuwe wyse hulle verskyning. Hulle word verbind ... -
Subjects of modernity : time-space, disciplines, margins
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2017)“Dube ranges widely and globally - from histories of empires and genealogies of disciplines to recent Dalit artwork from India - to explore and carefully delineate a tension he regards as fundamental to the formation of ... -
Ta'arruf as a philosophy of Muslim education : extending Abu Bakr Effendi’s pragmatism
(African Sun Media, 2020)In this book, Yusef Waghid constitutes his argument in defence of ta’arruf (associational knowing) as an expanded conception of ta’dib (good education). In the first part of the book he elucidates Abu Bakr Effendi’s position ... -
Teacher education for transformative agency : critical perspectives on design, content and pedagogy
(African Sun Media, 2020)"Many teacher education programs globally are undergoing significant changes in response to government policy, imperatives driven by global competitiveness, as well as local conditions. This is particularly relevant in the ... -
Theories of Social and Economic Justice
(SUN PRESS, 2005)The bulk of the contributions in this publication originated in a research project initiated by the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in 2002. STIAS hosted a workshop in July 2004 in which researchers from ...
