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Acquiring communicative competence for the world of work : a business needs analysis and its impact on curriculum development and delivery

Author: Grant, Terri Date: 2003 This study, undertaken over a two-year period (2001/2) concerns the appropriate content for teaching communicative competence to contemporary graduates. It comprised two parts, phase one and phase two. Phase one set out to gauge the "fit" ... Read more
"Because the country says they have to change" : an analysis of a diversity intervention in a South African Police Service (SAPS) station

Author: Faull, Andrew Date: Dec 2011 This resource will be of value to scholars of transformation in South African organisations. The shift from apartheid to a constitutional democracy in South Africa brought with it a plethora of questions concerning ideas of nationhood, ... Read more c b n a
Being Different Together: case studies on diversity interventions in some South African organisations

Author: Steyn, Melissa Date: 2011 There are few contexts where people are not confronted by differences in the workplace, in organisations and public spaces, and as an aspect of the general body politic. This textbook is intended for students and educators of Human Resource ... Read more c b n a
Black Adam: end of the white guy?

Author: Steyn, Melissa ; McEwen, Haley ; Wilhelm, Dominic Date: 2010 This website features video material that can be used by educators and facilitators to generate discussion of whiteness in post-apartheid South Africa and the post-colonial world in general. While there are infinite ways in which an educator ... Read more c b n a
The carnival road : the eMzantsi Carnival and the promotion of intercultural interaction amongst the communities of Cape Town's southern peninsula

Author: Pearce, Sam Date: 2007 The power of carnival has long been appreciated and theorised. However, the potential for harnessing that power specifically to facilitate intercultural interaction has not previously been examined. This study considers the application of ... Read more
Colour-conscious or colour-blind? : how a group of minority Xhosa learners experience and make sense of the "colour of race" in a predominantly coloured school in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town

Author: Henriques, Kaylene Date: 2009 This study represents qualitative research on the experiences of inclusion and exclusion of a group of the minority Xhosa learners at a predominantly Coloured secondary school in Mitchells Plain, in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2004 and 2006. ... Read more
Community healing in BonteLanga : a space for social healing and reconciliation

Author: Ankersen, Imke Kristin Date: 2008 The South Africa of today remains a largely divided society in which people of racialised groups often still regard one another with suspicion. This is not only a case of black and white since racially inflected attitudes and perceptions are ... Read more
Consolidated report of DEISA case studies

Author: Steyn, Melissa ; Kelly, Claire Date: 2010 DEISA (Diversity and Equity Interventions in South Africa) was a research programme which studied the transformation "industry" in South Africa, exploring issues such as the kinds of interventions. The content of this report has been used as ... Read more c b a
Diversity intervention for health educators : a detailed description of diversity workshops with health educators at UCT

Author: Ismail, Salma Date: Dec 2011 This report is of value to scholars of organisational transformation in post-apartheid South African organisations. Also, diversity practitioners who work in the context of higher education will find this report to be of interest. The diversity ... Read more c b n a
Diversity Literacy

Author: Steyn, Melissa Date: 2012 This resource provides the entirety of the Diversity Literacy course content. Melissa Steyn's (2010) notion of Critical Diversity Literacy is the conceptual foundation upon which the course is conceptualised. Diversity Literacy can be defined ... Read more c b n a
From Cradock, With Love: Affective Substantive Post -Apartheid Citizenship for Women of Colour

Author: Elder, Emily Date: 2010 This qualitative case study examines conceptualizations of post-apartheid democratic citizenship. Drawing on in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted in July 2009 with twelve voting age women of colour in the small town of Cradock in ... Read more
A history of the present : recognizing the complex and shifting nature of racism and resistance in the life narratives of the Khayelitsha Internal Forces

Author: Wale, Kim Date: 2008 This research attempts to represent and analyze the life-story narratives of a group of five former anti-apartheid combatants. Narratives were collected from a total often, in-depth, life-history interviews with five former-members of the ... Read more
"I don't see colour" : teacher discourses of integration in a selection of desegregated schools in Cape Town

Author: Davies, Claire Thandi Date: 2009 This thesis examines the discourses twenty three teachers in desegregated classrooms in Cape Town schools adopt toward integration and various constructions of difference. Discourse analysis reveals how the constructions of language, class ... Read more
Identities at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class in a liberalising, democratising South Africa : the reconstitution of 'the Afrikaner woman'

Author: Van der Westhuizen, Christi Date: 2013 This dissertation explores the extent to which the post-apartheid democratic space in South Africa has allowed for the emergence of new identities for Afrikaans women beyond the normative Afrikaner nationalist volksmoeder [mother of the nation] ... Read more
The integration of adolescents of immigrant origin into the German education system : investigating everyday racism and xenophobia : a case study of an integrated public secondary school in Germany

Author: Foflonker, Khairoonisa Date: 2008 This case study is an ethnographic account of the experiences of immigrant origin adolescents of an integrated public comprehensive school. Field work was conducted from March - April 2007 in Oldenburg, Germany. The aim was to investigate the ... Read more
Intercultural learning and community mobilisation within eMzantsi

Author: Gwatirisa, Ruvimbo Valerie Date: 2013 This dissertation is a study of intercultural learning and community mobilisation within eMzantsi, an organisation that seeks to bring together previously segregated communities in the Southern Peninsula, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, ... Read more
An investigation into the impact of diversity training on a community service organisation

Author: Achen, Harriet Date: 2006 The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of diversity training in a Community Service Organisation in Cape Town. The impact of such training is gauged / measured by monitoring staff's perceptions towards training. A strategic ... Read more
Like a doll made of old cloth : a critical analysis of the influence of the radio programme Khalamdumbadumbane on Swazi discourses of femininity

Author: Hleta-Nkambule, Nonhlanhla Date: 2001 This project concerns the way the radio programme "Khalamdumbadumbane" functions as non-formal education and influences discourses of femininity in Swaziland. I have engaged in critical research in an attempt to show how the media (more ... Read more
"Like that statue at Jammie stairs" : some student perceptions and experiences of institutional culture at the University of Cape Town in 1999

Author: Steyn, Melissa ; Van Zyl, Mikki Date: Dec 2011 This report is of value to those studying institutional culture in post-apartheid South Africa, and dynamics of transformation at South African institutions of higher learning. In this project, students spoke out about their experiences at ... Read more c b n a
Lives in the informal art trade : an ethnographic case study of Maputo, Mozambique

Author: Southgate, Colin Scott Date: 2007 This minor dissertation investigates the lives and businesses of informal artists and vendors in Maputo, Mozambique. The research points to a swell in numbers of artisans in Maputo over the past dozen years. Tourism has developed in Mozambique; ... Read more