Browsing by Author "Du Plessis, Annette"
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- ItemThe experiences of parents of children with reading difficulties(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12) Du Plessis, Annette; Dreyer, Lorna; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Educational Psychology.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: According to the results of the Annual National Assessment (ANA) of 2011 in South African schools, approximately 53% of learners in grade 3 and 70% of learners in grade 6 did not reach a partially achieved level of reading. As a result of the reading difficulties, these learners have varying degrees of learning and behavioural difficulties and also experience psychological and emotional challenges. This figure indicates that a high number of people are parenting a child identified as having reading difficulties. Bronfenbrenner’s theory of the ecology of human development indicated the importance of interconnections between school, home, and community settings in order to foster children’s learning. Parents may be better supported and empowered to assist their child by collaboration among teachers and families. This collaboration may be strengthened by utilising knowledge gained from parents’ lived experiences of parenting a child identified as having reading difficulties. The primary research question guiding this phenomenological study involved understanding the experiences of parents with children identified as having reading difficulties. The study’s research methodology can be described as basic qualitative research which is embedded within an interpretive paradigm. Purposive sampling was used to select three parents as research participants. Three methods of data collection were employed, namely written reflective notes, structured individual interviews and observations. Furthermore, qualitative content analysis was used to analyse the data. The analysis revealed that four interconnected contexts emerged concerning parents’ lived experiences, namely their relationship with their identified child, their relationships with other family members, their interactions with teachers and the child’s school, and their perception of social support in raising their child. The study found that parents experienced a variety of dismaying emotions regarding their child’s reading difficulties and that parents adopted roles such as caretaker, motivator and advocate in order to obtain the intervention and educational services needed for their child. The findings of this study inform and encourage educators and other support personnel to support parents and promote collaboration with parents of children identified as having reading difficulties, potentially enabling those parents to better support their identified child.
- Item'n Literêr-gerontologiese beskouing van "Die dao van Daan van der Walt" deur Lodewyk G. du Plessis (2018)(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03) Du Plessis, Annette; Visagie, A. G.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Afrikaans and Dutch.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The focus in literary gerontological research is on literary work wherein the ageing protagonist experiences his own ageing (and in some cases writes about it as well). This induces not only sympathy for the ageing character, but it also creates insight for the reader into the problematic (bodily, sociological and psychological) world of the aged. Although situations in real life may be portrayed in literature, it remains a representation of reality and cannot mirror society. The representation of ageing in literature might be powerful in creating better understanding of ageing, but only when literature is studied as one among many other cultural, sociological or psychological factors. The insight thus created cannot be equalled by gerontologists, psychologists or by the medical profession. It is important, however, that the prime focus is on literature as a form of art and not on gerontology. The themes that have been selected for study in Die dao van Daan van der Walt by Lodewyk G. du Plessis (pseudonym of Andries Buys) are all associated with ageing: transience, religion, relationships, identity, sexuality and loss. The focus in this research is on the portrayal of the main character’s (Daan) inner conflict in resolving his homosexual identity by acknowledging and realizing it. To find inner peace by confronting the heterosexist society and the dictations of the church, required a complicated and long journey for Daan (seventy years old). The word dao (way/journey) in the title of the novel creates the expectation that the text will be devoted to this journey. Research on male subjectivity forms an integral part of this investigation in understanding Daan’s struggle, as he was married to Magrieta while not realizing his homosexuality. The church, the Bible and daoism are all major influences in his eventual transformation. The insight he gained into his identity and comprehension and acceptance of other people’s views and cultures, contribute to the hope and wisdom with which he approaches his final years. It is important to notice that a transformed conception of ageing is a powerful basis for the fight against ageism. The hybrid nature of the novel opens interfaces with a variety of genres, such as the farm novel, metafiction and the Reifungsroman. Since Daan is writing his memoirs, his Historia, the novel acquires a confessional tone. References to mythology, history, the Bible and literature are included in the Historia, thereby opening new perspectives on political and ecclesiastical issues. The novel is a valuable contribution to the genre of the Reifungsroman, as there is (especially in Afrikaans literature) a lack of novels with an ageing male protagonist in the narrative. The portrayals of the coming out of ageing homosexuals are almost non-existent. This study is concluded with a discussion of the novel as the late work of Andries Buys.
- ItemReis as tema en metafoor in die egoliteratuur van Elsa Joubert(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2023-03) Du Plessis, Annette; Visagie, Andries Gerhardus; Visagie, A. G.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Afrikaans and Dutch.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : Elsa Joubert (1922-2020) het met ʼn reisverhaal haar skrywersloopbaan in 1957 ingelui en sedertdien wye erkenning verdien as ʼn belangrike reisverhaalskrywer in die Afrikaanse letterkunde. Sy het egter veral bekendheid verwerf weens haar duidelike standpuntinname oor politieke en sosiale vraagstukke wat sy vreesloos in haar romans (1963-2002), asook in haar egoliteratuur (2005-2017) aangepak het. Reis is ʼn deurlopende tema in haar oeuvre, maar vir die doeleinde van hierdie studie is die ondersoekveld afgebaken tot die outobiografiese drieluik in haar egoliteratuur: ʼn Wonderlike geweld. Jeugherinneringe (2005); Reisiger: Die Limietberge oor (2009), en Spertyd (2017). Die sterk verband tussen Joubert se persoonlike lewe en die breër kulturele en sosiopolitieke samelewing, haar Afrika-gerigtheid, haar rol as vroueskrywer in die veranderende politieke klimaat in Suid-Afrika, en haar ouderdomsbelewing, word in haar egoliteratuur gereflekteer. Heersende konseptuele beskouings van die outobiografie, fiksionaliteit in die egoliteratuur, identiteit, die outoetnografie, die feminisme, en die literêre gerontologie is die teoretiese hoek van waaruit Joubert se tekste in hierdie studie beskou word. Haar lewensgeskiedskrywing verloop parallel met reis as ʼn lewenservaring wat haar van jongs af gefassineer het. Sy is uiteraard op verskillende vlakke getransformeer deur haar reise oor verskeie kontinente heen. Aspekte van die reisliteratuur wat vir hierdie studie relevant is, is die postkoloniale diskoers en die rol van die ruimte en die metafoor in die kreatiewe herskepping van die reisgegewe. In haar egoliteratuur is reis ʼn metafoor vir “binnereise” – reise waarin jy nuwe aspekte van jouself ontdek. Dié soort reis, deur Joubert beskryf as haar “geleefde ervaring van een mens”, spruit uit die outobiograaf se perspektief vanuit die hede, waarmee sy haar jonger self se optrede, denke en aspirasies herbeleef. Dit word in haar nadenke ʼn nuwe reis, met ander betekenisse, en in Spertyd word dit afgesluit met ʼn spirituele besinning oor die mens se bestaan. In hierdie studie word ondersoek ingestel na die wyse waarop Afrikanerskap, patriotisme, skrywerskap, identiteit, spiritualiteit, en veroudering figureer as metaforiese reise. Reis as ʼn spesifieke tema, asook die metaforiese aard van reis as ʼn selfopenbarende element in ʼn outobiografie in die algemeen, en in die besonder in Elsa Joubert se egoliteratuur, word in hierdie studie as skering en inslag van Joubert se tekste beskou. Die fokus op die samehang tussen Joubert se drie outobiografiese werke, en die rol van Spertyd as eenheidsvormende sluitstuk van die drieluik, sowel as van haar oeuvre, sluit die navorsing af.