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Training Paraprofessionals to Implement Hold Me Tight in South Africa: Outcomes and Experiences

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 51, Issue 3, July 2025.
ABSTRACT No studies have examined the effectiveness of Hold Me Tight (HMT) delivered outside of North America by paraprofessionals. In this study, paraprofessionals were trained to deliver HMT experientially by personally receiving the intervention along with didactic training on establishing and delivering HMT groups.
Adrian Blow, Tina Timm, Elmien Lesch, Andrea Wittenborn, Kathryn de Bruin, Colleen Anderson, Jennifer White VanBoxel, Chi‐Fang Tseng   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Afrikaanse oorlogspoësie na Sestig II

Literator, 1994
In this, the second and final article on the study of Afrikaans poetry dealing with aspects of the South African war since the Sixties, an assessment is made of the moral stance adopted by poets vis-a-vis the conflict, while the main characteristics of ...
F. I.J. van Rensburg
doaj   +1 more source

Afrikaans literature, Breyten Breytenbach, prison poetry, the reader

Tydskrif vir letterkunde, 2009
In Breyten Breytenbach’s poetry the “I” is complex. “I” and “you”, the writer and the reader, are not represented with constituted meanings but as signifiers and as part of language production. This article reflects on the development process of the writer as the textual “I”, the “I” narrator in the poetic text – the “I” of language that is not ...
openaire   +3 more sources

A key to literacy? Exploring Bliss words combined with traditional orthography as a teaching strategy for language and literacy learning for learners with learning disabilities

Support for Learning, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 32-44, February 2025.
Abstract For decades, Blissymbolics (Bliss) has been used as a communicative symbol system for persons with complex communication needs. The linguistic features of Bliss words offer the potential for use with learners with learning disabilities to acquire literacy; however, no formal documentation of this is available.
Agnes Larsson, Ensa Johnson, Ariné Kuyler, Margareta Jennische   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Literary reading as a socially responsive practice: Implications for literature pedagogy at higher education

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
This research project investigated the literary reading practices of English pre‐service teachers in a South African university and found that students were practising socially responsive reading in their interpretations of Shakespearean plays. Abstract As university teachers of literature, we tend to accept the rhetoric that students lack the capacity
Naomi Nkealah, Maria Prozesky
wiley   +1 more source

Qaddafi's Hidden History? The Libyan World Islamic Call Society's Editions and Translations of the Qur'an

The Muslim World, Volume 114, Issue 1-2, Page 14-35, Winter-Spring 2024.
Abstract One of the most important developments in modern Islamic missionary activism was the establishment in 1972 of the Libya‐based World Islamic Call Society (WICS, originally the Islamic Call Society) which acted as a leading think tank advocating Muslim unity and Pan‐Arabism throughout the Qaddafi era.
Mykhaylo Yakubovych
wiley   +1 more source

Meditations in a churchyard: An exploration of Afrikaans graveyard poets and graveyard poetry

Literator, 2017
The term ‘kerkhofgedig’ (‘churchyard poem’) does not feature in academic discussions on Afrikaans poetry, neither does it appear in Cloete’s authoritative work of reference, Literêre terme en teorieë (1992). There are mainly three reasons for this omission in Afrikaans literature.
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The importance of decomposing periodic and aperiodic EEG signals for assessment of brain function in a global context

Developmental Psychobiology, Volume 66, Issue 4, May 2024.
Abstract Measures of early neuro‐cognitive development that are suitable for use in low‐resource settings are needed to enable studies of the effects of early adversity on the developing brain in a global context. These measures should have high acquisition rates and good face and construct validity.
Teresa Del Bianco, Rianne Haartsen, Luke Mason, Virginia Carter Leno, Cilla Springer, Mandy Potter, Wendy Mackay, Petrusa Smit, Carlie Du Plessis, Lucy Brink, Mark H. Johnson, Declan Murphy, Eva Loth, Hein Odendaal, Emily J. H. Jones   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cavafy, Vos, Dangor: A belated reply to Phil van Schalkwyk

Literator, 2019
The influence of the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantin Cavafy on South African literature in English has received some attention, but his impact on Afrikaans letters merits further investigation.
Roger M. Field
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Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University

Sociology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 5, May 2024.
Abstract Drawing on fieldwork conducted at a South African University, this qualitative study examines the lived experiences of black foreign students studying and living in South Africa. The study sought to understand the role that Pentecostalism plays in mediating the everyday experiences of black foreign students within and beyond the university ...
Simbarashe Gukurume
wiley   +1 more source