Thesis (M. Ed. (Community and Continuing Education)) -- University of Limpopo, 2017. / This study drew attention to the strategic necessity of the Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) programme in equipping historically disadvantaged communities with basic numeracy, reading and writing skills. The Department of Basic Education regards the ABET programme as the vehicle on which individuals historically excluded from formal schooling life access basic education and skills that help them to be active agents of socio-economic change in their communities. Whilst the ABET programme’s broad objectives have been properly conceptualised and institutionalised, the central concern of this study is that little effort may have been invested by the Department of Basic Education to qualitatively assess the state of ABET programmes in rural-based Public Adult Learning Centres (PALCs) like Laaste Hoop. In order to ensure the Department of Basic Education recoup best returns from every effort invested in the ABET programme at Laaste Hoop PALC such an assessment is imperative. This study employed the qualitative method and a case study design to examine the state of the ABET programme offered at Laaste Hoop PALC. Using the purposive sampling method, ten participants comprising one member of the centre’s Governing Body, six learners, the centre manager and two facilitators were selected to participate in the study. The main finding of this study is that the Laaste Hoop PALC is struggling to effectively fulfil its broad mandate due to poor budgetary support from the v Department of Basic Education. The study found that the Laaste Hoop PALC is generally in a state of neglect as the infrastructure is in an advanced state of dilapidation. The main recommendation of the study is that the Department of Basic Education needs to launch a targeted fundraising campaign in order to improve the operating and financial leverage of the centre. Key words: ABET programme; adult literacy; numeracy; functional literacy.

<p>Savremeni svetski tokovi u oblasti obrazovanja i izvr&scaron;ene reforme nastavnih planova i programa, uslovili su promenu obrazovnog sistema u i reformu geografske nastave u Srbiji u osnovnom obrazovanju. Dobro struktuiran geografski kurikulum Srbije obezbediće adekvatno mesto geografiji u na&scaron;em obrazovnom sistemu.</p> / <p>Modern world actions in the field of education and reformscarried out in teaching plans and programmes have caused changes in the educational system and reforms of geaography teaching in Serbia on the level of primary school education. Well structioral geographic curriculum of Serbia will provide a suitable place for geography in our educational system.</p>

The effectiveness of loyalty programmes continues to be questioned, especially as their cost to firms increase together with their adoption rate across industries worldwide. Given the divergent industry specific findings predominantly focusing on the retail and airline industries, and the lack of previous consideration of important moderating variables type and timing of rewards, this study extended the research to service industries, investigating the effects of customer perceived benefits on loyalty programme effectiveness in terms of both attitudinal and behavioural loyalty. Hypotheses established the extent to which reward design elements (customer perceived benefits and type and timing of rewards) develop customer relationships (perceived relationship investment and brand relationship quality) which are market-based assets driving future revenue for the firm, and resulted in customer loyalty in the financial services industry. A quantitative methodology and survey approach was adopted with a randomly selected stratified sample of respondents. The results supported the validity and reliability of the construct measures and a satisfactory adjusted SEM model fit. The study provided industry-specific outcomes, indicating that social (integration with customer values), exploratory (exposure and access to relevant and timeous knowledge), monetary (financial value) and entertainment benefits drive customer loyalty in the financial services industry, with timing of rewards having no moderating impact and type of reward only impactful for consumers that prefer indirect (non-financial) exploratory and entertainment benefits. Importantly, the benefit of recognition was found not to have a significant influence. The study further supported divergent reward design elements as antecedents of customer loyalty across industries, as a result of the divergent nature of customer relationships between industries. Limitations of the research were consideration of customer characteristics, segments, and the relationship between attitudinal and behavioural loyalty. The study’s theoretical contribution provides for a more comprehensive conceptual model of loyalty programme effectiveness, leveraging customer relationships which are grounded in market-based asset theory, as well as an empirical analysis of previously untested relationships between important variables. The research also confirms the requirement for industry-specific design elements for effective loyalty programmes. For practitioners, the findings provide guidance on design elements of an effective programme within the financial services industry. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2018. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / PhD / Unrestricted

The purpose of this independent work is to highlight how important it is to work with pupils' social knowledge in school. The work also aims to investigate how educators can help acting out pupils in the social interaction. They need to respond to the pupils in the game, but also take a step back when they notice that pupils are starting to change their old behavior. The method on which the work is based is scientific essay writing. The work is based on an experience taken from my reality as an educator at the after-school programme. The incident made me think about a pupil's behavior and my actions towards the pupil. Some of the selected theories and concepts I have used are differentiation competence, communities of practice, life world phenomenology and bioecological system theory. The concepts explain how educators can work with relationship building in school, in order to best meet and understand the pupils. An important idea based on the theories is that pupils are shaped by their encounters with others both at home and at school. That is why it becomes important to pay attention when difficulties arise and help pupils, both individually and collectively. My text ends with me highlighting the most important insights I gained during the work. I have broadened my perspective on the experience. I got time to reflect on my actions and how I would have acted if my and Jacks relationship had been deeper. The work has raised thoughtson how I and other educators should work to help pupils cope with the social interaction independent of the adults. / Syftet med detta självständiga arbete är att belysa hur viktigt det är att arbeta med elevernas sociala kunskaper i skolan. Arbetet syftar också till att undersöka hur pedagogerna kan hjälpa utåtagerande elever i det sociala samspelet. De behöver bemöta eleverna i leken men också taett steg tillbaka när de märker att eleverna börjar förändra sitt gamla beteende. Metoden som ligger till grund för arbetet är vetenskapligt essä skrivande. Arbetet utgår från en erfarenhettagen från min verklighet som pedagog på fritidshemmet. Händelsen fick mig att fundera överen elevs beteende och mitt agerande gentemot eleven. Några av de utvalda teorier ochbegrepp jag har använt är differentierings kompetens, praktikgemenskaper, livsvärlds fenomenlogin och den bioekologiska systemteorin. Begreppen förklarar hur pedagoger kan arbeta med relationsskapande i skolan med olika metoder, för att på bästa sätt bemöta och förstå eleverna. En viktig tanke utifrån teorierna är att eleverna formas av möten med andra både i hemmet och i skolan. Därför blir det viktigt att uppmärksamma när svårigheter uppstår och hjälpa eleverna, både individuellt och kollektivt. Min text avslutas med att jag lyfter de viktigaste insikterna jag fått under arbetet. Jag har vidgat mina perspektiv på händelsen. Jag har fått tid att reflektera kring mitt agerande och hur jag hade agerat om min och Jacks relation varit djupare. Arbetet har väckt tankar kring hur jag och andra pedagoger bör arbeta för att hjälpa eleverna att klara av att hantera det sociala samspelet oberoende av de vuxna.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Although TB is a curable communicable disease, poor adherence to TB treatment is a major barrier to TB control in South Africa as it increases the risks of morbidity, mortality and drug resistance at individual and community level. As a result, multi-drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) has become a serious public health issue. Underpinning this study was the assumption that a client-centred approach to treatment of MDR-TB clients, with a hospital programme which adopts an integrated multidisciplinary approach that is client-centred and is not purely biomedically driven, would improve treatment outcomes of MDR-TB clients.

Infrastructure continues to perpetuate the effects of splintering urbanism in South African cities. Where apartheid planning policies such as the group areas act used infrastructure as a mechanism of social organisation, this design dissertation proposes using architecture as social infrastructure to transcend these sociotechnical divides. The concept of the sociotechnical denotes the synergy of a city's infrastructural systems and its social life. In this design dissertation this idea is explored at various scales: at the urban level, through a development strategy that spatialises unsafe public open land; at the architectural scale, through surface articulation and interfacing with urban infrastructure; and at the technical level, through building performance analysis and technical design development in support of architectural goals. The project uses a distributed programme that stretches across communities in order to socialise the existing urban infrastructure of a pedestrian bridge. By leveraging the social significance of a local football club, the project proposes a social programme around the idea of a football clubhouse as a programmatic anchor. In reacting to urban infrastructure, the idea of imageability and presence are important considerations. These concepts enable youth to positively engage with the architecture, and allows the building to convey its purpose and programmatic intent, thereby creating a strong social interface with its users. Sociotechnical architecture is considered as an urban armature that socialises and spatialises urban infrastructure. The architecture therefore seeks the minimal amount of fixity to support a variety of flexible events surrounding sports and recreation activities. This is achieved through a selection of robust materials used in horizontal surfaces of social purpose, and the combination of structure, materiality and geometry to create a series of vertical surfaces of social presence and architectural imageability. The result is a strategic arrangement of architectural interventions deployed across a large urban scheme. By distributing the architecture across urban infrastructure, the project connects two communities and presents an architectural response to splintering urbanism.

Content: A novel class of bio-based polymers have been developed within the LIFE BIOPOL European project aiming to replace traditional re-tanning and fat-liquoring products reducing environmental impacts and increasing the safety of leather. The purpose of the project is to enhance the recovery and reuse of different bio-derived by-products from leather and agro-industrial sector to produce eco-friendly and renewable bio-polymers with high re-tanning and fat-liquoring characteristics. The LIFE BIOPOL project aims to make bio-based polymers in order to reduce the following parameters in re-tanning phase: - 20-30% COD, - 50-60% of inorganic salts (Sulphates and Chlorides), - 90% of Cr (III) salts, - 20% of water used in the leather process. Other important goals of the project are: - reduction 70-90% of hazardous and environmental polluting substances normally found in conventional chemicals, - reactivity enhancement of 30-40% of the new biopolymers compared to the current leather - application technology, - reduction of 70-80% of the Product Environmental Footprint of the new biopolymers related to the state of the art. The vegetal biomasses and the tanned hides by-products were pretreated in order to obtain suitable building blocks for the production of bio-based polymers. Several protocols involving polymerization were used in order to achieve the synthesis of the biopolymers, which have been carried out at lab scale. Macromolecular characterization of the biopolymers was performed in order to rationalize the synthetic strategy and practical application of the products giving important parameters such as molecular weight and chemical composition of the new biopolymers. Performances of new bio-based polymers have been inspected and compared with traditional chemicals through application on different types of leather. The benefits of the new products within leather making process were evaluated through chemical analyses of re-tanning and fat-liquoring effluents. The upgrade of the developed chemistry will be performed within a new devised prototype plant specifically designed and built-up for producing the bio-based polymers at industrial scale Take-Away: Production of leather making biopolymers from biomasses and industrial by-products through Life Cycle Designed Processes

Dissertation Title: Transforming Violent Masculinities: Nigeria's Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Programme in the Niger Delta Abstract Gender mainstream in security studies has been erroneously equated with the introduction of women in security practices. Hence, gender analysis of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programmes have largely underestimated the importance of also considering men's gender identity. Breaking this pattern, this dissertation examines the ability of the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration approach adopted in the Niger Delta to change or consolidate violent masculinities among ex-combatants. The selected case study is of special relevance to the topic at hand since the conflict in the Niger Delta has been partly attributed to the constructions of masculinity that prevail in this Nigerian region. Following previous research in the field of critical masculinities and feminist peacebuilding, the paper reveals that the transformative potential of the Presidential Amnesty Programme is extremely limited, exclusively offering a way of expressing positive masculinities as part of the economy. This is the result of the Nigerian government's decision to adopt a minimalist approach to DDR that pays full attention to ex-combatants as individuals rather...

The aim of this thesis is a concept of a high rope centre in a particular location with support of EU funds. The first part of this thesis gives an overview at the project and presents an analysis of the environment and the conditions in which the project will be realized. The concepts of the project realization and the evaluation of the proposed concepts are presented in the second part.

The diploma thesis is to elaborate a business plan, analyzing the possibilities for its financing, compared with the allocation of funding options and grants without, using indicators measuring efficiency. The content of the business project is to analyze the situation of HyposNet Ltd., describing its activities, products and services. The reason for the processing of a business plan is the establishment of training center at the residence.