Assessment of exposure and risk through use of a personal, cumulative organ risk index

Este proyecto de investigación tiene como objetivo determinar la relación entre el Diseño de una historieta sobre el reciclaje y la percepción en niños de 4to, 5to y 6to de primaria de dos I.E. del Callao 2017.Se utilizó una población de 760 niños seleccionando una muestra de 255 alumnos, así mismo para la recaudación de todos los datos se empleó la encuesta como técnica de recolectar información, el instrumento utilizado fue el cuestionario formado por 14 preguntas a base de la escala de Likert. La información obtenida fue subida y procesadas por el programa SPSS, logrando obtener un coeficiente de Alfa de cronbach de 0,816 siendo un resultado aceptable. Finalmente se logró generar el análisis descriptivo de los resultados y la contrastación de hipótesis, dando así resultado positivo entre las variables, en donde se acepta la hipótesis de investigación y se rechaza la nula por lo tanto si existe relación entre el diseño de una historieta sobre el reciclaje y la percepción en niños de 4to, 5to y 6to de primaria de dos I.E. del Callao 2017

Experiences in a tutoring programme for B.Ed. foundation phase isiXhosa first language students

Thesis (MEd (Education))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018Students from disadvantaged communities in South Africa enter higher education under extreme pressure due to under-preparedness when transitioning to university. While universities have succeeded in increasing the enrolment of students from the population groups that were excluded during the Apartheid dispensation, they are still struggling with throughput rates after more than two decades into the country’s new democratic dispensation. Universities’ challenges to meet throughput rates are partly ascribed to the barriers which students from educationally disadvantaged communities experience. Universities with English as the Language of Learning and Teaching (LOLT) comprise one of the barriers which students, whose home language is not English, must overcome. A University of Technology in Cape Town in the Western Cape Province of South Africa initiated a tutoring programme in the home language of isiXhosa students who enrolled for a BEd Foundation Phase qualification in its Education Faculty. Support was offered to students who failed one or more subjects in their first year of study, as well as new recruits who anticipated that they might be at risk of failing. Those who failed the subjects in the previous year stated the reasons for failure as not understanding the concepts and terms of the subjects presented to them in English. This study attempts to investigate the experiences of the tutees and tutors, as well as other role players for the duration of the tutoring programme. The research question was formulated as: "What are the experiences of role players in a tutoring programme for BEd Foundation Phase isiXhosa home language students?" Within a qualitative case study, the researcher uses semi-structured interviews and reflective journals to understand how the role players experience the tutoring programme. This study is framed within a Social Constructivist theory; while an interpretative paradigm is employed to analyse the data. The findings suggest that tutoring in their home language grants isiXhosa students access to the curriculum, for which they would otherwise have struggled to have access to. The findings explore the possibility of tutoring in the home language becoming a mandatory practice for students whose home language is not the LOLT of the institution

Older persons' care as life care : a pastoral assessment of the ecclesia praxis within the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Africa

Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is a pastoral care strategy for the affirmation of the dignity of the poor Black older persons. In this study there is a discussion of how the poor Black older persons suffered the defacement of their dignity under Apartheid and how to a large extent their dignity is still being defaced under the new democratic dispensation in South Africa. These poor Black older persons are victims of various forms of older person abuse. They experience the prejudice of ageism intensely as it is exacerbated by racism; and with no appropriate medical and health strategies in place to provide quality health care; and with inappropriate housing, social services, and residential care services, their dignity is denied. Due to past discriminatory laws and policies these vulnerable older persons suffer the consequences of low levels of formal education within an environment of engineered poverty and racial discrimination which made it impossible for them to enter into quality employment which would enable them to provide adequately for old age. The deprivation thus experienced made it difficult for them to flourish economically and otherwise. At present they are still marginalised and they experience intense forms of loneliness. These poor Black older persons continue to suffer humiliation and indignity in spite of legislation and policies purporting to ensure their well-being. Within a society embracing a neo-liberalist philosophy they are considered unimportant as they do not contribute productively to the economic well-being of the community and are therefore relegated to the lowest ranks of society. With the effacement of their dignity through socially constructed systems their human development is seriously hampered, resulting in a disintegration of human wholeness. The inequality that the poor Black older persons suffer is an indictment against humanity as these older persons have the right to feel at home on the planet. Due to the fact that they are not recognised as having been created in the image and likeness of God, their uniqueness and distinctness as human beings are denied, their identities distorted, and they are not considered worthy citizens. In order to affirm the dignity of the poor Black older persons a practical theological methodology as proposed by Osmer (2008) and consisting of four tasks, has been employed. The notion of a moral economy for the affirmation of the dignity of these poor Black older persons has been utilised. With the moral economy orientation linked with a Liberation Theology methodology the dignity of the poor Black older persons is affirmed as a personal attribute based on the older persons being a category of people being carried into old age by God, enjoying privileged positions of honour and respect, and being eschatological signs and symbols of God’s goodwill towards restored communities in Christ. Within a moral economy the values of reciprocity, responsibility, and interdependence are used to affirm the dignity of these older persons intergenerationally and contextually.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie is ʼn pastorale sorg strategie vir die bevestiging van die menswaardigheid van die arm Swart ouer persone. In hierdie studie word daar aangedui hoe die arm Swart ouer persone se menswaardigheid onder Apartheid en in ‘n groot mate in die nuwe demokratiese dispensasie geskend is. Die arm Swart ouer persone het die slagoffers geword van verskeie vorms van misbruik. Die diskriminasie teen ouderdom word intensief deur hulle ervaar soos dit vererger word deur rassisme; en met geen behoorlike mediese en gesondheidstrategieë in plek om in die behoefte van hierdie kwesbare ouer persone te voorsien nie; en met gebrekkige behuising, sosiale dienste en onvoldoende plekke van sorg vir ouer mense, is die menswaardigheid van hierdie ouer mense erg misken. Weens historiese diskriminerende wette en regeringbeleid ly hierdie kwesbare ouer persone die gevolge van lae vlakke van formele opvoeding binne ‘n omgewing waar armoede kunsmatig geskep is en waar rassediskriminasie geheers het. Hierdie omstandighede het dit vir hulle onmoontlik gemaak om kwaliteit werk te kry wat hulle in staat sou stel om toepaslik vir die ouderdom voor te berei. Die ontberinge wat gevolglik gely word, maak hulle ekonomiese en andersydse ontwikkeling onmoontlik. Hulle is gemarginaliseerd en ly aan intense eensaamheid. Hierdie arm Swart ouer persone gaan voort om vernedering en onmenswaardighede te ly ongeag van wetgewing en beleidstukke bedoel vir hul welsyn. Binne die gemeenskap wat ‘n neoliberalisties filosofie aanvaar, word hierdie ouer mense misken omdat hulle nie produktief tot die ekonomiese welvaart van die gemeenskap bydra nie, en daarom word hulle beskou as sonder enige sosiale kapitaal wat hulle dan sosio-ekonomies op die laagste vlak van die gemeenskap sonder enige erkenning van hulle menswaarde en menswaardigheid plaas. Met die skending van hul menswaardigheid deur sosiaal gekonstrueerde sisteme word hul menslike opbloei ernstig gestrem wat lei tot die disintegrasie van menslike heelheid binne die demokratiese bestel van die Republiek van Suid- Afrika. Die ongelykheid wat die arm Swart ouer mense ly is ‘n klag teen die mensdom omdat hierdie ouer mense ontuis voel op die planeet. Hierdie groep is na die beeld van God geskape, maar hulle uniekheid en besondersheid word miskien. Om die menswaardigheid van hierdie arm Swart ouer mense na te gaan, is ’n praktiese teologiese metodologie gebruik soos voorgestel deur Osmer (2008) en word die vier teologiese take soos deur hierdie metodologie voorgestel, gevolg. Betreffende die vierde taak van hierdie metodologie is die konsep van ’n morele ekonomie gebruik vir die bevestiging van die menswaardigheid van die arm Swart ouer persone. Met die skakel van hierdie morele ekonomiese oriёntering met die Bevrydingsteologiese metodologie is die menswaardigheid van die arm Swart ouer persone bevestig as ’n persoonlike eienskap gebaseer of die feit dat hulle ’n kategorie van mense is wat deur God in die ouderdom gedra word, wat dan bevoorregte posisies van eer en respek geniet as eskatologiese tekens en simbole van God se toegeneëntheid teenoor herstelde gemeenskappe in Christus. Binne ’n morele ekonomie word die waardes van wedersydsheid, verantwoordelikheid, en interafhanklikheid gebruik om die menswaardigheid van hierdie ouer mense intergenerasioneel en kontekstueel te bevestig

An investigation concerning the human dignity of brown state pensioners

CITATION: Carnow, J. J. & Thesnaar, C. H. 2017. Die skending van die menswaardigheid van ouer bruin staatspensioenarisse. LitNet Akademies, 14(3):489-513.The original publication is available at https://www.litnet.co.zaIn hierdie bydrae word die sosio-ekonomiese situasie van bruin ouer persone teologies-pastoraal vertolk om te probeer vasstel of hierdie situasie hul menswaardigheid skend. Vir hierdie doel is ’n teologiese teorie van menswaardigheid benut. Die konsep van menseregte wat in diens staan van die beskerming van menswaardigheid word aangewend om die skending van menswaardigheid te bepaal. Die navorsing vir hierdie bydrae is deur middel van die fokusgroepmetodologie gedoen. In ’n bespreking van kern sosio-ekonomiese temas is bevind dat die menswaardigheid van hierdie groep ouer persone oor hulle hele lewensduur geskend is en steeds word. ’n Teologies-pastorale sorgstrategie word voorgestel om hierdie ouer persone in die bevestiging van hul menswaardigheid te bedien. Die teoretiese raamwerk waarbinne hierdie navorsing geskied, is die unieke teologiese konsep van eskatologie, wat nie net dui op die eindtyd nie, maar ook ’n aanduiding is van die essensie van die nuwe wese van mense in Christus.This article endeavours to use empirical investigation in interpreting the socio-economic situation of coloured state pensioners to determine whether their human dignity is violated by their socio-economic situation. These older people are members of the Redeemed African Methodist Church. The relevance and importance of this article lies in demonstrating that the quality of life and the well-being of people are existentially determined by the extent to which their human dignity is acknowledged. The main purpose of the article is to present a theological-pastoral care strategy to assist them in the affirmation of their dignity when it is violated by their socio-economic situation.Publisher's versio