Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences provides a dynamic and interactive learning environment to its students focusing in particular on preparing our graduates for an ever-growing knowledge-based society and economy.
Sub-communities within this community
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Department of Drama [108]
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Department of English [204]
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Department of History [294]
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Department of Journalism [209]
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Department of Music [244]
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Department of Philosophy [330]
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Department of Psychology [779]
Recent Submissions
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Reclaiming school athletics in Cape Town’s underclass, 1933–1955
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2022-05-01)This article endeavours to make a significant contribution to the broadening of local school athletics history in Cape Town. By focusing on certain historical documents, the article explores the state and scope of athletics ... -
The Complex 'I'. The Formation of Identity in Complex Systems
(Lawrence and Wishart, 2010)When we deal with complex things, like human subjects or organizations, we deal with identity – that which makes a person or an organization what it is and distinguishes him/her/it from other persons or organizations, a ... -
A serial verb construction with the verb alāku “go” in Canaano-Akkadian
(Antiguo Oriente, 2019)This paper examines the categorial status of Canaano-Akkadian biverbal sequences built around the motion verb alāku “go” and their possible inclusion in the category of Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs). The evidence ... -
Khayelitsha, South Africa: Effects on antenatal and postnatal outcomes in an individual randomised controlled trial
(2019)he study's objective was to determine the effectiveness of a task-sharing psychological treatment for perinatal depression using non-specialist community health workers. A double-blind individual randomised controlled trial ... -
EUNIS Habitat Classification: Expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats
(2020-07)Abstract Aim: The EUNIS Habitat Classification is a widely used reference framework for European habitat types (habitats), but it lacks formal definitions of individual habitats that would enable their unequivocal ... -
Kenya’s New Lunatic Express: The Standard Gauge Railway
(2020-10)Abstract: The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to integrate Africa into an ambitious Chinese-constructed infrastructure network that seeks to link the economies of participating countries to that of China’s. However, ... -
The professionalization of pastoral caregiving: a critical assessment of pastoral identity within the helping professions
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Pastoral caregiving within a clinical setting and the parameters of interdisciplinarity and a team approach to healing and helping, cannot escape the public demand for a professional approach to caregiving ... -
The ethics of responsibility: fallibilism, futurity and phronesis
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this article, I deal with the issue of a possible ethics of responsibility (ER) from a philosophical perspective in general, and bioethics in particular. My aim is to explore whether an ER is able to ... -
Using technology and multimedia in Junior Secondary First Language creative writing skills development : new methodology to fit new literacies
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the use of technology and multimedia in the development of Junior Secondary learners’ writing skills, asking specific questions about the changes in literacy that new technologies ... -
Die kartering van ’n distopiese Suid-Afrika in Lien Botha se Wonderboom (2015)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study researches Lien Botha’s novel Wonderboom (2015) and how the narrative and paratextual elements produce different visual and textual cartographies of a dystopian South Africa. The different ... -
The hidden history of supporting actors in the first human-to-human heart transplant, c.1958-1967
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The first successful human-to-human heart transplant occurred in South Africa on the evening and early morning of 2 and 3 December 1967. It was a groundbreaking moment in world history and became the ... -
Applying indigenous knowledge resources in children’s play-crafting in Southern Nigeria : practice-led research using Ibibio folk narratives
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of the study is to investigate the possibility to use play-crafting as a form of educational drama to renew the interest of Ibibio children in their Indigenous Knowledge Resources. The educational ... -
Die geskiedenis van Afrikaanse sosiale klubs in Suid-Afrika met spesiale fokus op die Maria van Riebeeck-klub en Klub Here Sewentien
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study provides an in-depth view of the history and role of two selected Afrikaans social clubs in South Africa within the context of clubs as a social phenomenon. Social clubs are institutions that ... -
Institutionalising the ‘skollie’: social labelling and philanthropic institutional reform at Klaasjagersberg State Institution for Coloured boys c. 1934-1979
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Existing research on punishment and (re)education in state institutions in South Africa reflects the shift in penological discourse from punitive to rehabilitation of children deemed delinquent or ‘in ... -
Investigating evidence of linguistic relativity in Dholuo
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: An age old question within the language sciences has been whether linguistic experience influences how people perceive reality. The possible linguistic influence on thought is what is known as linguistic ... -
The biography of Dr Hannah-Reeve Sanders, the first female Chief Medical Superintendent of Groote Schuur Hospital
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Known by the phrase, ‘The country girl who did good,’ Dr Hannah-Reeve-Sanders was committed to the idea of becoming a doctor from a young age. Through a biographical sketch beginning in 1928 until 1998, ... -
Reading the voices of a fractured Coloured elite : Coloured intellectuals and newspapers in the Cape, c. 1959-1966
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The history of Coloured politics, especially in the Cape, imbibed notions of race, belonging, identity and even linguistic or cultural distinctions. The rise of a Coloured elite who spoke “on behalf” ... -
A comparative study of the influence of state funding on shelter resources in the Western Cape and its perceived effectiveness.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The researcher nominated to apply an exploratory research design, descriptive in nature, that utilised a mixed-method approach to gather information that delivered insight and knowledge regarding how state ... -
Literacy practices in and out of school in multilingual Kenya : an ethnographic study of Tana River County
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABTRACT: This dissertation investigated the literacy practices in the multilingual context of Tana River County, Kenya. It aimed to understand the types of literacy practices children are exposed to, and engaged ... -
By the stroke of a pen : an evaluation of the Cape Times and Die Burger’s portrayal of racial reclassification from 1980-1990
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During apartheid, South Africans were assigned one of four main racial categories: white, black, Indian, or coloured. Given the fluidities of race, “misassignment” was common, leading individuals to ...
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