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    365 days of openness: The emergence of OER at the University of Cape Town
    (Athabasca University Press, 2013) Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Paskevicius, Michael; Cox, Glenda; Shaikh, Shihaam; Czerniewicz, Laura; Lee-Pan, Samantha; McGreal, R; Kinuthia, W; Marshall, S; McNamara, T
    Historically, resources such as books, journals, newspapers, audio and video recordings have been fairly well curated in university libraries. However, the same cannot be said for teaching and learning materials, unless they have been included in a textbook or study guide. With the growth in digital media, libraries have been extending their curation of scholarly resources to include electronic journals, digital books and reference guides, broadening access to these beyond the physical walls of the library. While the growth in digital technology has prompted academics to create their own customised and contextually specific digital media for use in their teaching in the form of PowerPoint presentations, manuals, handbooks, guides, media resources and websites, these resources are most often stored on personal hard drives, on departmental servers or within password-protected institutional learning management systems. Access to these digital materials is usually limited to registered students undertaking specific courses within specific institutions and usually only disseminated by individual academics or departments.
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    Access to learning resources in Post-apartheid South Africa
    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology & International Development Research Centre, 2018-05-01) Gray, Eve; Czerniewicz, Laura; Joe Karaganis
    Any inquiry into how university students get the learning resources they need for their education in post-apartheid South Africa must deal with three interrelated subjects: the legacy of apartheid, which continues to structure educational opportunities in important ways more than twenty years after the first democratic election; the organization and increasingly radical transformation of the commercial publishing market, which has been the primary source of textbooks and other materials in the system; and— common to all of the chapters in this book—the mix of new-technology-enabled strategies through which students do their best to get the textbooks and other materials they need. We track three decades of tensions around these issues, as post-apartheid leaders struggle to reform an educational system originally designed primarily to control and oppress rather than educate the majority population. Because the old system had grown up around numerous (and often colonially grounded) accommodations of the global publishing business, international copyright law, and—most important—a structural disregard for whether the system worked in more than a minimal sense, the pressure for reform has produced tensions on all of these fronts.
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    Activist networks and political protest in the Free State, 1983-1990
    (SADET and UNISA Press, 2010) Twala, Chitja; Seekings, Jeremy
    Chapter 14, Jeremy Seekings collaborates with Chitja Twala to examine activist networks and political protest in the Free State. The authors explain that although no regional UDF structure was ever formally launched in the area there were protests in the townships of Tumahole, Thabong (Welkom) and Mangaung (Bloemfontein); these later spread as far afield as Bethlehem and Harrismith.
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    Addressing inequalities in child health: opportunities and challenges
    (Children's Institute, 2012) Sanders, David; Reynolds, Louis; Lake, Lori
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    Addressing quality through school fees and school funding
    (Children's Institute, 2009) Hall, Katharine; Giese, Sonja
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    Addressing the social determinants of health
    (Children's Institute, 2010) Lake, Lori; Reynolds, Louis
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    Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South: Chapter summaries
    (African Minds, International Development Research Centre & Research on Open Educational Resources for Development, 2018-02-28) Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl
    Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution and against which use of OER might be evaluated. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching and student performance; and increasing cost and concern about the sustainability of education. The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project was a four-year research initiative to investigate in what ways and under what circumstances the adoption of OER could address the increasing demand for accessible, relevant, high quality and affordable education in the Global South. The project was comprised of 18 sub-projects, the findings from which are captured as chapters in the edited volume, Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South. The summaries presented here provide an overview of chapters’ study contexts, methodological approaches, key findings and recommendations, as well as links to accompanying open datasets. Of the total 16 chapters, 12 are based on sub-project findings and four are synthesis and overview chapters. The chapters are organised into five main sections: Overview, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Conclusion. Within these broader sections, chapters are presented in sequence according to whether the research addresses basic or higher education.
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    Assessing Racial Redress in the Public Service
    (HSRC Press, 2008) Naidoo, Vinothan
    Efforts to make South Africa’s public service more representative were propelled by the introduction of a non-racial democracy in 1994. The racial profile of South Africa’s public service was integral to sustaining the policy of apartheid, which was designed to promote a segregated and unequal system of social, economic and political relations between legally defined race groups. Van den Berghe (cited in Marger 1994: 402) interestingly referred to apartheid South Africa as a Herrenvolk democracy, defined paradoxically as a ‘state that provides most democratic features of political rule to whites while ruling blacks dictatorially’. More specifically, the creation of geographically separate and administratively distinct homeland territories to house South Africa’s black African population represented the pinnacle of a race-based system of public administration designed to strategically regulate the representation of the country’s black population in the public service relative to its white population.
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    Basic health care services for children
    (Children's Institute, 2010) Westwood, Anthony; Shung King, Maylene; Lake, Lori
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    Biofuel policies in South Africa: a critical analysis
    (Springer, 2012) Letete, Thapelo; von Blottnitz, Harro
    In 2007 the South African government released the country’s National Biofuels Industrial Strategy targeting a biofuels market penetration of 2% of liquid road transport fuels by 2013. Contrary to the international situation, the main driver for the development of a biofuels industry in South Africa is neither the economic threat of increasing oil prices nor mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, but the need to create a link between the country’s first and second economies. Specifically, the government hopes to stimulate economic development and to alleviate poverty through the promotion of farming in areas previously neglected by the apartheid system. Before the release of this strategy, commercial sugar producers and maize farmers represented the majority of the parties looking to drive the South African biofuels industry. But, two years after its release none of the ventures by these stakeholders have been able to take off, mainly due to the Strategy’s restrictions on the type and source of feedstock as well as on the type of farmers whose participation in the industry would be subsidised. This chapter presents a critical scientific-­based analysis of the implications and results of South Africa’s National Biofuels Industrial Strategy. Firstly an update is presented on the state of the biofuels industry in the country, highlighting the current production statistics and the major investment activities, and how these were affected by the release of the Strategy. Then the ambiguities in the Strategy are outlined and critically analysed with reference to the current state of the biofuels industry in the country. The chapter then concludes with the lessons to be learnt from the South African experience by those African countries which are yet to develop their respective biofuel policies.
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    Black Consciousness in contemporary South African politics
    (HSRC Press, 2009) Reddy, Thiven; Kagwanja, Peter; Kondlo, Kwandiwe
    An ironic feature of contemporary South African politics is that while the organisations representing Black Consciousness (BC) ideas remain weak and fragmented, a revival in BC ideas, values and practices in official and civil society discourses seems evident. BC organisations dominated anti-apartheid politics in the 1970s, but their startling decline, particularly their weakened state under post-1994 democracy, calls out for analytical attention. In the 1999 and 2004 elections, the Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) was the leading BC organisation. Together with the smaller Socialist Party of Azania (Sopa), Azapo received dismal support. Moreover, Azapo has split into three smaller organisations. Efforts to merge the three have so far faltered. One cannot conclude, however, that the obvious failure of BC political parties to challenge the ANC and the historically white political parties at the polls means that we should dismiss these organisations’ ideologies as ineffective and lacking in influence. The resurgence of BC ideas at the level of civil society, at a time when we might expect BC to be anachronistic, is intriguing. It is also the subject of this chapter.
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    Budget allocations for implementing the Children's Act
    (Children's Institute, 2008) Budlender, Debbie; Proudlock, Paula; Monson, Jo
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    The challenge of communicating science effectively in fisheries management
    (African Minds, 2020) Butterworth, Doug S; Weingart, P; Joubert, M; Falade, B
    This chapter presents a short case study of a particular field of science communication: scientific advice to decision-makers1 in fisheries management. Scientific advice to decision-makers is a special type of science communication, as it is directly linked to political decisions. Thus, the advisory process requires certain institutional structures that guarantee the quality of the process. The chapter commences with a very brief introduction to fisheries management: what are the basic objectives, and what makes them difficult to attain. It then proceeds to summarise the basic structures that underlie the process of developing scientific advice for fisheries management measures, and of transmitting this advice to decision-makers (such as the government ministers responsible) for final decisions. This is discussed both in a South African and international context, addressing whether they are working and where the problems lie. Finally, problems in the way scientists try to communicate scientific results in these processes are highlighted, with some suggestions given of how they might be improved.
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    Chapter 04. Framework to understand postgraduate students' adaption of academics' teaching materials as OER
    (2011) Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Paskevicius, Michael
    This chapter addresses a way of responding to one of the key challenges of OER contribution, namely academics' lack of time to re-purpose teaching materials originally intended for campus-based face-to-face lectures as stand-alone Open Educational Resources (OER). It describes how masters' students, tutors and interns at the University of Cape Town have been engaged to support the innovative practice of adapting academics' existing teaching materials into OER.
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    Chapter 1: An Introduction and General Principles
    (Edutech, 2022-07-01) Kaliski, Sean; Kaliski, Sean
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    Chapter 1: An Introduction and General Prinicples
    (Edutech, 2022) Kaliski, Sean; Kaliski, Sean
    This chapter provides a foundational overview of the complex, multidisciplinary field of Forensic Mental Health (FMH), with a particular focus on the legislative and practical landscape in South Africa. It addresses the historically complicated definitions of forensic expertise, highlighting how boundaries vary globally based on local laws, culture, and healthcare infrastructure. The author outlines the critical skills required of FMH practitioners—spanning diagnostic acumen, legal literacy, report writing, and risk assessment—while addressing the fundamentally disparate communication styles and objectives inherent to the law-psychiatry interface. Furthermore, the chapter examines the clinical and legal determinations of decision-specific capacity, the diagnostic pitfalls and reliability issues associated with classification systems like the DSM, and the systemic challenges within the South African forensic care pathway. Concluding with a look at modern shifts, the text explores the insertion of the Recovery Model into secure environments and addresses enduring ethical controversies, including dual agency, the insanity defense, and coerced treatment.
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    Chapter 2: The Forensic Mental Health Assessment
    (Edutech, 2022-11-16) Kaliski, Sean; Kaliski, Sean
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    Chapter 2: The Forensic Mental Health Assessment: How to be a Mind Detective
    (Edutech, 2022) Kaliski, Sean; Kaliski, Sean
    This chapter provides a comprehensive, practical guide to conducting a Forensic Mental Health Assessment (FMHA), framing the mental health practitioner's role as that of a "mind detective." Unlike traditional therapeutic assessments aimed at treatment, an FMHA is a clinical evaluation tailored specifically for legal and juridical purposes. The author delineates the generic framework of the forensic assessment process, which encompasses navigating the initial referral, clarifying distinct psycholegal questions across criminal and civil domains, and compiling the final report. Crucial operational paradigms are detailed, including verifying the practitioner's scope of practice, managing the ethical minefield of "dual agency" and conflicts of interest, and securing valid informed consent or court orders. The chapter provides rigorous guidelines for conducting face-to-face interviews, examining the procedural complications introduced by online assessments during the COVID-19 pandemic, and navigating the linguistic and cultural nuances of interpreter-mediated interviews. Furthermore, the text underscores the vital necessity of gathering and cross-referencing collateral data from third-party interviews, legal dockets, and digital footprints (such as social media) to test the consistency and truthfulness of an examinee's self-reported narrative. The author concludes by outlining defensive practices for ordering special investigations, mitigating adversarial cross-examination, and translating complex psychiatric findings into clear, jargon-free reports for judicial decision-makers.
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    Chapter 3: Assessing The Accused
    (Edutech, 2024-10-29) Kaliski, Sean; Kaliski, Sean
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    Chapter 3: Assessing the Accused
    (Edutech, 2022) Kaliski, Sean; Kaliski, Sean
    This text examines the assessment of criminal defendants within the South African forensic mental health system under Sections 77, 78, and 79 of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 (CPA). It addresses the complexities that emerge from the uncodified nature of South African substantive criminal law, highlighting a recurrent lack of mutual understanding between mental health practitioners and the courts regarding the exact elements of criminal liability (actus reus versus mens rea). The chapter details the multi-departmental referral process, contrasting South Africa’s system—where entry is almost exclusively precipitated by a criminal offense—with systems like the United Kingdom's. It critiques the historical conflation of fitness to stand trial (Section 77) and criminal responsibility (Section 78) by practitioners, advocating for separate inquiries to preserve procedural justice. Furthermore, the author evaluates the statutory thresholds of adjudicative competence, drawing comparisons with the United States' Dusky standard to structure evaluations. It outlines the legal and constitutional evolutions following the De Vos (2015) ruling and the Criminal Procedure Amendment Act 4 of 2017, which granted courts the discretion to order less restrictive care for unfit defendants instead of relying on automatic, indefinite institutionalization. Finally, the text analyzes the limitations of the classic cognitive and conative tests of insanity, arguing that modern neuropsychiatry challenges the law's artificial separation of cognition and impulse control.