Faculty of Arts and Design
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Item Converging technologies : the integration of manual design skills in pattern technology within a virtual learning environment (VLE) for South African design students, with particular reference to swimwear(2004) Sutherland, Beverley; Stewart, Graham Douglas James; Vorster, GeorgeThis investigation focuses on the research and development of a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) on CD-ROM to prepare Fashion students for a digitally-based industry.Item The development and evaluation of a manual on tailoring for the clothing design and clothing management programmes based on the clothing industry's needs(1995) Vorster, George; Coertze, Dirk J.; Ellis, R.This study evaluated the programme content on tailoring of the National Diploma: Clothing Design and National Diploma: Clothing Management in terms of the needs of the clothing industry. The objective was to identify the critical factors needed for producing a manual on tailoring which could be used in a teaching environment.Item An introduction into the induction programme for departmental secretaries at Technikon A(2003) Mkhize, Pridesworth Nomusa; Prosser, Julia JudithInduction is the process of introducing new employees to the goals of the organisation, its policies and procedures, to co-workers as well as to the activities or the tasks to be performed in the job.Item The sexual harassment of unemployed and temporary P1 educators by high school principals and chairmen of school governing bodies in the Lower Umfolozi District(2004) Nxumalo, Thabani Israel; Prosser, Julia JudithThis study deals with sexual harassment in the Lower Umfolozi District. The researcher investigated speculation that there was sexual harassment in the Lower Umfolozi District. The researcher discovered that there was sexual harassment of Pi temporary and unemployed educators in the Lower Umfolozi DistrictItem Aspects of the construction of a politicised female identity in South African fashion photography(2006) Madhoo-Chipps, Nirma Dolly; Kethro, PhilippaThis dissertation questions and expands currently held notions of traditional fashion identities in South African fashion photography. The impetus for this study stems from observations of a relatively low level of political engagement in local fashion photography as compared to other areas of art and design which seem very enunciative of a politics of identity. Investigation of identity politics in South African fashion photography was informed by a staged investigation. Firstly, accounts of a literature review of fashion theory and key theories of identity allow entrenched constructions of fashion representations to be seen as restrictively politicised. Primary investigation of expert fashion views followed. The concepts of hybridity and fluidity in theories of identity were central to the discovery of alternative politicised fashion identitiesItem The South African Developmental Appraisal System (DAS) : implementational problems arising from the perception of DAS by educators at the four secondary schools of the central circuit in Inanda District, KwaZulu-Natal(2003) Masikana, Sifiso Lucky Matthews; Prosser, Julia JudithThis research investigates the South African Developmental Appraisal System (DAS). It is concerned with exposing implementation problems arising from its perception by educators in four secondary schools in the Central Circuit of the Inanda District ofKwaZulu-Natal.Item The management of HIV/AIDS in secondary public schools in South Africa : an overview of policy(2004) Nair, Eugene John Gilbert; Prosser, Julia JudithAs the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa accelerates, HIV sero-prevalence studies report increasing risk among young people in the general population. These young people are found predominantly in schools. It is for this reason that the researcher embarked on this study. The emphasis of the study is to evaluate the management of HIV/AIDS in secondary public schools in South Africa, particularly, an overview of the policyItem The relevance of Sathya Sai Baba's philosophy to the educational leadership of secondary school principals in the central Stanger area(2004) Kommal, Teddy; Prosser, Julia JudithThe ultimate goal of this research is to demonstrate the positive effect that can be achieved in the educational management arena by following the teachings of Sathya Sai Baba. This work attempts to add the voice of Sathya Sai Baba in classroom and school management and to demonstrate how his teachings could be used to the benefit of school principals, fellow educators and learners. In this research, focus is placed on secondary schools in the central Stanger area as the researcher is a principal in this areaItem The development of a model for transformation in the faculty of commerce at a technikon : with special reference to curriculum, student services and gender(2000) Mohun, Dhanishwar; Prosser, Julia JudithSouth Africa's apartheid policy under the previous Government entrenched a system of education that favoured the White minority at the expense of the other race groups, particularly Africans. African education was based on the ideology that Africans must be trained to serve their own community. Gross underfunding of African education resulted in underqualified educators, high leamer-educator ratios, low pass rates and lack of facilities