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The elevation of Sepedi from a dialect to an official standard language: Cultural and economic power and political influence matter

This study explored the role played by economic, cultural, and political power and influence when a particular dialect was elevated to the status of an official standard language. This was a ... . However, these dialects were considered superior and elevated to the status of official languages because of socio-economic power and political influence. This article further recorded that the status type

Experience of Caring as Source of Abductive Reasoning in Nursing: a Pragmatic Vision

nursing professionals, satisfaction with their work.Keywords : nursing care; philosophy nursing; clinical reasoning; nursing theory; nursing practice.. ... the view of the world between modern and postmodern postures because it does not abandon the useful categories of science, but rather creates alternatives to think a philosophy that facilitates the

Bosman: A proto-postcolonial author?

political commentary that accompanies and underpins it. Building on these insights, the present study investigates Bosman's preoccupation with South Africa's politics in order to determine whether he could be ... analyses selected texts in terms of their political themes - five short stories from the collections Ramoutsa Road (1987), Unto Dust (1991) and the novel Willemsdorp (written in 1951, first published in 1977

Reading Zimbabwe's structural and political violence through the trope of the unnameable and unnamed in Brian Chikwava's Harare North

that: [t]he political philosophy of the annihilation of enemies has underpinned ZANU-PF's attitude to state power not only during the liberation struggle and the 1980 election; it has been ... , deformed, non-existent and uncanny, embodies and stitches together pervasive economic, social and political crises that confront Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans in the post-2000 period (Jones 2010). This article

Iceni to iconic: Literary, political and ideological transformations of Boudica through time

time and the gender of the reigning monarch, has exemplified either the negative or the positive attitudes required from a national icon. I will suggest that social, religious and political ... the figure of Boudica for political purposes rather than for her historical value. I then trace this form of ideological manipulation through the Renaissance and into the Victorian period. Various

Morinian Complexity and the Nursing Curriculum

critical curricula, with multidisciplinary thinking, connecting fragmented knowledge, defending one's own cultural identity, based on the Philosophy of care, and responding, in parallel, to the challenges of ... Complex Thinking (Philosophy). Adjunct Professor, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral; Santa Cruz, Argentina. Email: Abstract This scientific essay argues about the relevance of

A depiction of Maphalla's message in his poems: The case of Ke ikopela tokoloho and Mahlo a ka tutuboloha

upon a philosophy of political repression and a denial of human rights to African people (Adelokun 2022) . Writers such as Maphalla have contributed to social protest category as well. Tsambo (1999 ... ) postulates that Maphalla was a staunch political activist who worked hard to fight the past white oppressive regime in his own way, and in his books, he depicts the life of an ordinary black people under an

Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Systematic Review

transmission and to control the COVID-19 pandemic have caused major problems in the economic, social, political and psychological spheres and have affected billions of people worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic ... threatening epidemic. In addition to increasing the incidence and mortality of this epidemic, it caused significant other economic, social, political, and psychological problems. Social isolation by

Reading Zimbabwe's structural and political violence through the trope of the unnameable and unnamed in Brian Chikwava's Harare North

that: [t]he political philosophy of the annihilation of enemies has underpinned ZANU-PF's attitude to state power not only during the liberation struggle and the 1980 election; it has been ... , deformed, non-existent and uncanny, embodies and stitches together pervasive economic, social and political crises that confront Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans in the post-2000 period (Jones 2010). This article

Conceptual Models and Theories Applied to Nursing Education in Intercultural Contexts: State of the Art

and accepting cultural diversity.5 Thus, from education, interculturality is defined as: “An attitude and intellectual, ethical, political, and social disposition regarding a relationship among ... , principally from education, psychology, and sociology, and to a lesser extent in philosophy, politics, anthropology, and ethics. Trends in conceptual and theoretical models From the theoretical culture

Psychological sequelae of political imprisonment, specifically post-traumatic stress disorder, in 491 Days by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

, avoidance of reminders and an ongoing sense of threat. An interdisciplinary literary-psychological approach will probably lead to a deeper understanding of the mental consequences of political imprisonment ... political imprisonment, as PTSD was not an acknowledged disorder during Madikizela-Mandela's detainment.     'They destroyed your being; you are made to feel a nobody.' Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (2013

Psychological sequelae of political imprisonment, specifically post-traumatic stress disorder, in 491 Days by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

, avoidance of reminders and an ongoing sense of threat. An interdisciplinary literary-psychological approach will probably lead to a deeper understanding of the mental consequences of political imprisonment ... political imprisonment, as PTSD was not an acknowledged disorder during Madikizela-Mandela's detainment.     'They destroyed your being; you are made to feel a nobody.' Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (2013

Social Determination of the Health of Families from Two Neighborhoods in Medellín, Colombia

setting of resistance, overshadowed by moments of flight and displacement derived from violence, with scant participation in city plans and programs and with structural problems of economic and political ... from three dimensions or domains: general, particular, and singular,3,4 and which establishes the ways economic, social, and political relations are produced and reproduced. Eslava5 states that social

Contribution of students in the evaluation of master’s and doctoral programs in the field of nursing

, professionals who choose to enter a postgraduate program should not only emphasize their academic-professional profile based on ethical-aesthetic-political attitudes, or by their willingness to fulfill the ... willingness to fulfill the mission and philosophy of the program and produce science within his area. Their role as students of the program is also to seek solutions and answers to the various critical nodes

Letterkundige en wysgerige kanttekeninge by die transformasie-trilogie van Antjie Krog

'propagandistic' and non-intellectual in nature. Van Niekerk mentions the strong interest in African philosophy. However, both western philosophy and African philosophy are confronted with the same problems. In ... of Antjie Krog     Hennie P. van CollerI; Danie StraussII ISchool of Languages, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa IISchool of Philosophy, North-West University, Potchefstroom

Letterkundige en wysgerige kanttekeninge by die transformasie-trilogie van Antjie Krog

'propagandistic' and non-intellectual in nature. Van Niekerk mentions the strong interest in African philosophy. However, both western philosophy and African philosophy are confronted with the same problems. In ... of Antjie Krog     Hennie P. van CollerI; Danie StraussII ISchool of Languages, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa IISchool of Philosophy, North-West University, Potchefstroom

Letterkundige en wysgerige kanttekeninge by die transformasie-trilogie van Antjie Krog

'propagandistic' and non-intellectual in nature. Van Niekerk mentions the strong interest in African philosophy. However, both western philosophy and African philosophy are confronted with the same problems. In ... of Antjie Krog     Hennie P. van CollerI; Danie StraussII ISchool of Languages, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa IISchool of Philosophy, North-West University, Potchefstroom

Letterkundige en wysgerige kanttekeninge by die transformasie-trilogie van Antjie Krog

'propagandistic' and non-intellectual in nature. Van Niekerk mentions the strong interest in African philosophy. However, both western philosophy and African philosophy are confronted with the same problems. In ... of Antjie Krog     Hennie P. van CollerI; Danie StraussII ISchool of Languages, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa IISchool of Philosophy, North-West University, Potchefstroom

Corrigendum: Narrative materiality and practice: A study of born-free negotiation of periphery and centre

acknowledgement is hereby updated as follows:This article is partially based on the author's thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics, School of Literature, Language and Media

Les manifestes et les programmes littéraires en Afrique francophone subsaharienne : à propos de 'l'invisibilité

Indies and the Caribbean; the omnipresence of political and social discourse which takes precedence over poetic reflection; the metalanguage of the manifesto due to the fact that writers are also generally