Volume 47, Issue 1, 2007
Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe - Volume 47, Issue 1, March 2007
Ná die Waarheids- en Versoeningskommissie : uitdagings aan die historikus in 'n demokratiese Suid-Afrika
Source: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 47, pp 1 –12 (2007)
Perspektief op die onafhanklikheid van die Bank van Engeland, die Reserwebank van Nieu-Seeland en die Suid-Afrikaanse Reserwebank
Source: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 47, pp 13 –27 (2007)
Afrikaner-identiteit : 'n psigoanalitiese interpretasie
Source: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 47, pp 28 –42 (2007)
Perspektiewe op die verband tussen saamwoonverhoudings en huwelikstabiliteit
Authors: Hylma Van Rooyen and Anda Le Roux
Source: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 47, pp 43 –55 (2007)
Heteroseksuele interpersoonlike verhoudings word op verskillende maniere gevestig. Dit vind neerslag in bepaalde lewenstylkeuses wat die afgelope jare baie veranderinge ondergaan het. Daar blyk 'n afname in die huwelik as lewenstyl en 'n toename in saamwoonverhoudings te wees. Faktore wat tot die afname van die huwelik bygedra het, asook die aard van saamwoonverhoudings, word beskryf. Verskillende perspektiewe op die wedersydse invloed van saamwoonverhoudings op huweliksverhoudings kom na vore in die literatuur. Daar word veral ondersoek ingestel na die verband tussen saamwoonverhoudings en huwelikstabiliteit. Dit blyk dat verdere navorsing nodig is om die verskillende hipoteses rakende die verband tussen saamwoonverhoudings en huwelikstabiliteit te toets.
Perspectives on the correlation between cohabitative relationships and marital stability
Large-scale changes in lifestyles and the establishment of personal relationships have taken place over the past few years. This article will therefore focus on the different lifestyles, specifically marriage and cohabitative relationships. A heated debate is raging with regard to the influence of cohabitative relationships on marital stability. People express their heterosexual relationships in three ways, namely by going out, living together and getting married (Scanzoni 1995).
Marcus Aurelius se siektegeskiedenis en dood : was hy 'n opiumverslaafde?
Authors: Louise Cilliers and F.P. Retief
Source: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 47, pp 56 –65 (2007)
The disease history and death of Marcus Aurelius : was he an opium addict?
Marcus Aurelius (121-180) was the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors of the Roman Empire. He proved a just and enlightened ruler but had to spend the last twelve years of his reign (168-180) on the Empire's north-eastern borders in warfare against the invading tribes. Here he wrote his famous 'Meditations'. A serious epidemic disease (probably small pox) which struck Rome in 166/7 persisted intermittently for more than 20 years. Chronic illness (chest and abdominal complaints) troubled Marcus since childhood, resulting in him never being physically strong. His best-known physician, Galen, treated him inter alia with a daily dose of theriac (claimed to be a universal antidote against poisoning, but also used as a general purpose tonic). Theriac comprised approximately 70 ingredients of which one was poppy-extract (containing opium). Authors have claimed that Marcus was opium addicted and that this explained his remarkable tolerance of enemies and other offending individuals (including his wife's probable infidelity). We suggest that his chronic life-long illness of chest and abdomen was possibly tuberculosis, and that he probably eventually died of small pox. We believe that the amount of opium present in his daily dose of theriac was too small to have caused opium addiction.
Authors: Cecilia Bouwer and Lizebelle Oosthuizen
Source: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 47, pp 66 –80 (2007)
Groeiende belangstelling in tuisskoling noodsaak navorsing om 'n effektiewe en begronde praktyk te fasiliteer. Hierdie artikel doen verslag van 'n kwalitatiewe, meervoudige gevallestudie na die moeder in die tuisskoolsituasie se persepsie van haar rol as onderwyser sowel as haar gestaltegewing aan hierdie rol. Data is versamel by wyse van onderhoude met drie moeders, die analise van hul kinders se boeke, veldnotas en 'n reflektiewe joernaal. Drie verwante temas het na vore gekom: die invloed van die moeder se eie leerervarings, haar beskouing van onderrig en leer in die tuisskoolsituasie, en haar beskouing van die rol(le) wat sy speel. Die eerste tema kom algemeen voor in die literatuur, maar laasgenoemde twee is oënskynlik betreklik onontginde terrein.
The mother's representation of the teacher role in home schooling
Growing interest in home schooling necessitates research to facilitate effective and grounded practice. Parents choose home schooling for various reasons and these reasons have been found to influence their choice of instructional approach and methods. Both the home school teacher and learner are confronted by certain responsibilities and challenges. An evaluation of home schooling has highlighted various concerns regarding the learners' performance and development, especially scholastically and socially. This article reports on the mother's perception of her role as a teacher and the form which she gives to this role in the home school situation. The study looked at the ways in which the mother distinguishes between her roles as a parent and a teacher, in an effort to understand possible assets and challenges in the home schooling situation.
A qualitative, multiple case-study design was used within the interpretivist research paradigm. The participants consisted of a convenience sample of mothers with experience of home schooling. Data collection consisted of unstructured interviews with the mothers, an analysis of the learners' schoolbooks (focusing on the input and feedback of the mother-teachers) and the researcher's journaling of her observations and reflections. Data analysis was performed thematically. The bio-ecological model of Bronfenbrenner, a multi-dimensional model of human development, ultimately served as the theoretical framework for the interpretation of the findings.
The mothers' perceptions of their role in home schooling differed greatly and appeared to be influenced and directed by their own educational experiences and their views on teaching and learning. The mothers all saw their role primarily as that of a mother, but they thought differently about their functions in the home school. Mother A saw her function as that of a participant, a guide at most, Mother B as that of a supervisor but also a helper as needed, and Mother C as that of a model. Each was found to give form to her role in strong relation to the context of her family. Mother A performed her role by joining her children in their learning; Mother B by getting the children - with careful attention to structure and discipline - to learn independently; and Mother C by informally and creatively playing and interacting with the children. The mothers did not distinguish between their roles as mothers and teachers, but rather implied a synthesis of the two roles. Focusing on their task as parents, they regarded the education of their children as integral to that task. For all of them, education included the total development of their children, i.e. more than mere knowledge transmission.
The mothers explicitly utilised it as an asset that their children of different ages and grades learned their siblings' work and assisted one another. By and large, grade-specific specialisation was not observed at the foundation phase level, although some delimitation of content did occur. This finding suggests that the finer points of learning to read and write and mastering number concept might have been overlooked.
Source: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 47, pp 81 –94 (2007)
Met die verloop van bykans twee dekades het Régis Debray 'n nuwe studieveld, genaamd mediologie, ontwikkel. Terwyl hy betoog vir 'n afgrensing van hierdie veld van semiologie, sosiologie, geskiedenis, kommunikasieteorie en ander menswetenskappe, ontvang hermeneutiek dikwels net vyandigheid van hom. Hierdie artikel het ten doel om die verwantskap tussen mediologie en hermeneutiek, wat naamlik in hulle aandag aan simboliese effektiwiteit sentreer, uit te wys. Drie areas van konvergerende belang word geïdentifiseer en bespreek: 1 / die wedersydse implikasie van die tegniese milieu en die wêreld van tegniek, 2 / die proses van outonomisering en her-toeeiening van media of van tekste en 3 / waaksaamheid in politiek.
Mediology and hermeneutics
Mediology, founded by Régis Debray, is a new science that sets itself the goal of understanding how ideas are transmitted and become effective. It clearly stands in close relationship to hermeneutics, but this relation has not been explored yet. This article aims to indicate the affinity between mediology (represented here by Debray) and hermeneutics (for which Ricoeur has been chosen as representative), which centres on attention to symbolic efficiency. Three areas of converged interest are identified and discussed: 1/ the mutual implication of the technical milieu and the world of technics, 2/ the process of autonomisation and re-appropriation of media or texts and 3/ vigilance in politics.
Authors: Cassie Swanepoel and Johan Booyse
Source: Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 47, pp 95 –111 (2007)
Dierekategese -, F.I.J. Van Rensburg
Siklus -, F.I.J. Van Rensburg