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- ItemPhenomenological engagement as pedagogical impetus in career counselling education(Services Cristal, 2024-06-30) Conradie, KarlienThis article aims to present the author’s understanding of how a phenomenologically concerned pedagogy can offer an antidote to the influence that a post-industrial consumerist culture has on career counselling education. In the age of mediatisation, surges of endless commercialisation and consumption has evolved in a crisis of relationality, characterised by ecological fragmentation and disconnectedness. The present article explains how an overly utilitarian mindset reinforces an instrumentalist approach to career counselling, inhibiting student educational psychologists’ capacity for being conscious of the embodied lifeworld situation of a person engaging in career counselling. The embodied lifeworld situation refers to an ecologically integrated person reality, intricately anchored in time, space, and historicity. A pedagogical approach is needed that forefronts phenomenological engagement – relational being and knowing - as a way of conserving students’ ability for embodied consciousness.
- ItemA philosophical study of alternatives to practices of educational philanthropy(2015-12-20) Booysen, Priscilla; Van Wyk, Berte; Education Policy Studies
- Item61 Tunneling Company : South African miners in the Middle East during the Second World War(Department of History, University of the Free State, 2012) Kleynhans, Evert
- ItemWar, sex and politics : the South African medical section in Korea, 1950-1953(Historical Association of South Africa, 2001) Van der Waag, IanSouth African participation in the Korean War was a complex matter: militari ly and in terms of domestic and foreign politics. Nonetheless South Africa place d an air force squadron as well as a token army element at the disposal of the United Nations Forces, including a small medical section. This study focuses in on the transience of life of about 900 South African soldiers during war. Hedonis m, searches for light-hearted pleasure and making the most of the moment have always accompanied war. the Korean War was no different. Despite South African racial politics, the South African Korea contingent suffered a STD rate of some 130 per thousand per year. Suid-Afrika se deelname aan die Koreaanse Oorlog was 'n komplekse saak - beide vanuit 'n militêre oogpunt as op die terrein van binne- en buitelandse beleid. Nogtans het die Unie 'n lugmageskader, sowel as 'n geringe leërelement, insluitende 'n klein mediese seksie, tot die beskikking van die Verenigde Nasies gestel. Die mediese seksie was nooit meer as sewe man sterk nie. Die studie let op bykans 900 jong Suid-Afrikaners in 'n vreemde land. Daar is sprake van die verganklikheid van die mens in 'n oorlogsituasie. Dit het nog altyd tot 'n mate van hedonisme gelei, 'n soeke na ligsinnige plesier en die geneigdheid om net vir die oomblik te leef.
- ItemVerdediging van die Kaap in 1795 : vir Kroon of Patria?(Historical Association of South Africa, 2001) Potgieter, TheanDefending the Cape in 1795: for king or country? The strategic location of the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa made it a priced possession and vital for maritime communications to the East. With the growth of British global commercial interest control of the sea route to the East and a safe base along this route became essential. But, the Cape was in Dutch hands and in 1795 (after France invaded the Netherlands) Britain decided to prevent the Cape from falling into French hands. An expeditionary force sailed for the Cape and the Prince of Orange (then a refugee at Kew) supported the idea that the Cape be placed "under the protection" of the British. Local opinion at the Cape was severely divided. Some Orange supporters demanded immediate adherence to the Prince of Orange's request while supporters of the Patriot Party threatened to defend the Cape to the last. As the rulers of the Cape and many officers were Orange supporters and the burghers and soldiers were Patriot supporters, the Cape Military Commander Colonel Gordon, was in a difficult position. Should he defend the Cape or capitulate? Meanwhile, the British landed successfully in False Bay and because of the poor defence they forced the Dutch back. Many of the burghers and soldiers were furious with the weak defence, but when British reinforcements arrived, the military situation changed in favour of the British. the Cape capitulated.