Cotutelle avec Sorbonne-Nouvelle / Par l'entremise d'une enquête ethnographique effectuée auprès de 229 cinéphiles français ayant fréquenté les salles de 1957 à 1964, nous examinons les différentes lectures que ces spectateurs — alors adolescents ou jeunes adultes — ont pu effectuer de The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). D’autres succès au box-office tels The Young Lions (1958), The Guns of Navarone (1961) The Longest Day (1962), The Great Escape (1963) ou encore Quand passent les cigognes (1958) et les films français comme Le Passage du Rhin (1960) sont aussi examinés auprès de nos 229 participants afin de cerner l’approche qu’ils ont adoptée face à un film mettant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale en image. En analysant non seulement le discours de nos participants sur les films, mais aussi leur « récit de vie », nous établissons les « traces » (tel que l’entend Janet Staiger dans ses travaux sur la réception) qui ont contribué à former le contexte de réception dans lequel ils ont « rencontré » les films. Nous traitons donc des notions de cadre d’interprétation et de stratégie interprétative. Ce qui veut dire que nous nous penchons dans un premier temps sur les circonstances qui amènent les spectateurs à attribuer une identité générique au film. Puis, suite à cette identification générique, nous examinons la stratégie interprétative choisie par les spectateurs dans leur lecture du film. Ainsi, nous pouvons voir que le vécu personnel de l’Occupation, ou sinon le roman familial de 39- 45, a orienté la lecture des films. Nous constatons aussi que la Guerre d’Algérie a produit une forte polarisation des opinions sur l’armée; ces prises de position sur l’armée ont des répercussions sur la lecture de The Bridge on the River Kwai. / Through an ethnographic inquiry carried out among 229 French moviegoers who went to the movies at least from 1957 to 1964, we examine the different readings that these spectators - then in their teens or young adults - could carry out of The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). Other huge box-office hits such as The Young Lions (1958), The Guns of Navarone (1961) The Longest Day (1962), The Great Escape (1963) or even The Cranes Are Flying (1958) and French films like Le Passage du Rhin (1960) are also examined with our 229 informants in order to identify the approach they adopted when faced with a film depicting the Second World War. By analyzing not only our informants' discourse on the films, but also their “life story”, we establish the "traces" (from Janet Staiger's reception theory) that helped shape the reception context in which they have encountered the films. We therefore deal with the notions of interpretation framework and interpretive strategy. This means that we first look at the circumstances which lead viewers to attribute a generic identity to the film. Then, following this generic identification, we examine the interpretive strategy chosen by spectators in their reading of the film. Thus, we can see that the personal experience of the Occupation period or otherwise the family’s story of WWII guided the readings of films on WWII. We also find that the Algerian War produced a strong polarization in the opinions about the Army. These positions on the Army have repercussions on the reading of The Bridge on the River Kwai.

The dissertation involves an investigation into home schooling in South Africa as an alternative to institutionalised schooling. This is done by means of qualitative research techniques, whereby an ethnographic study of a single home-schooling family takes place. This study occurs against the background established by a comprehensive literature review of the context, nature, scope and current issues of the home-schooling movement, in selected international countries as well as in South Africa. The study investigates the modus operandi of a home school in an attempt to explore actual practice and to uncover primary data. Limited recommendations for home schooling on the basis of the literature study and the specific qualitative inquiry are made. / Educational Studies / M. Ed.(Comparative Education)

The dissertation involves an investigation into home schooling in South Africa as an alternative to institutionalised schooling. This is done by means of qualitative research techniques, whereby an ethnographic study of a single home-schooling family takes place. This study occurs against the background established by a comprehensive literature review of the context, nature, scope and current issues of the home-schooling movement, in selected international countries as well as in South Africa. The study investigates the modus operandi of a home school in an attempt to explore actual practice and to uncover primary data. Limited recommendations for home schooling on the basis of the literature study and the specific qualitative inquiry are made. / Educational Studies / M. Ed.(Comparative Education)

This study is an exploration, through ethnographic and auto-ethnographic inquiry, of the personal world, gambling experiences and underlying biopsychosocial vulnerabilities of three individual case studies - one male and two females - each representing a different sub-type of pathological gambler. It comprises the integration and implementation of a psycho-structural stage matching model to explore comorbidity and identify certain biopsychosocial manifestations in the respective stages of pathological gambling. Long term treatment strategies were identified and patient treatment matching was explored. Further, it comprises my personal relationship and therapeutic treatment of these sub-types of gamblers over a period of one year and longer. In this study it is hypothesized that formulating appropriate matching long term treatment strategies should be based on the stage of change, the phase in the psycho-structural model, as well as the gambler's underlying vulnerability. From this a comprehensive gambling disposition profile can be completed with proper intervention matching approaches. A number of other hypotheses emerged from this study that could provide valuable information and serve as a guideline to those working with pathological gamblers. / Psychology / D.Phil.

This study is an exploration, through ethnographic and auto-ethnographic inquiry, of the personal world, gambling experiences and underlying biopsychosocial vulnerabilities of three individual case studies - one male and two females - each representing a different sub-type of pathological gambler. It comprises the integration and implementation of a psycho-structural stage matching model to explore comorbidity and identify certain biopsychosocial manifestations in the respective stages of pathological gambling. Long term treatment strategies were identified and patient treatment matching was explored. Further, it comprises my personal relationship and therapeutic treatment of these sub-types of gamblers over a period of one year and longer. In this study it is hypothesized that formulating appropriate matching long term treatment strategies should be based on the stage of change, the phase in the psycho-structural model, as well as the gambler's underlying vulnerability. From this a comprehensive gambling disposition profile can be completed with proper intervention matching approaches. A number of other hypotheses emerged from this study that could provide valuable information and serve as a guideline to those working with pathological gamblers. / Psychology / D.Phil.