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Otto Rank’s Counterwill on Nina Simone’s Spellcasting: ein ostranenie

Otto Rank’s Counterwill on Nina Simone’s Spellcasting: ein ostranenie

“We will take a hard look at the reasons why so many women, looking for someone to love them, seem inevitably to find unhealthy, unloving partners instead. And we will explore why, once we know a relationship is not meeting our needs, we nevertheless have such difficulty ending it. We will see that loving turns into loving too much when our partner is inappropriate, uncaring, or unavailable and…

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The Semiotics of Literature and Ukama: Conceptualizing an aftercare programme

The Semiotics of Literature and Ukama: Conceptualizing an aftercare programme

FX Goby, from Le mystère de Hawa’a After spending several days thinking through the Elam’s rebuttal of the criticism on semiotics, I decided to spend the day visualising a concept that I decided to pursue a year ago when Soane Mohapi first called me about a learning center she was constructing, urging me to add to the catalogue of plausible programmes to be hosted on the premises. ‘It seems to…

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The NHI Could Be an Opportunity to Save the Lives of the Poor

The NHI Could Be an Opportunity to Save the Lives of the Poor

Affordable healthcare for all could spell the difference between life and death for most Atang Motaung during his admission at Kalafong Hospital

“The cost could go up to R500,000,” was the advice given by the administrative assistant at Zuid-Afrikaans Hospital, where I had rushed my two-year-old son on the evening of the 4th of August, after a storage box had fallen from a height onto his…

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Shifting the Paradigm from the System to the Customer

Shifting the Paradigm from the System to the Customer

Interesting last point from Xie Jun's #wcol2019 presentation: Mobile Learning based on RainClassroom. Online learning should adjust 2the fact that students r already familiar w/the mobile environment. Isn't it that it's often lecturers struggling to catch up with emerging trends? pic.twitter.com/Tbtn1eZUwG

— UNESCO Chair on ODL at UNISA (@unescochairodl) November 4, 2019

If there is anything I…

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International Journals as the Model-C of Academic Publishing

International Journals as the Model-C of Academic Publishing

I am attending the Doctoral Symposium at the World Conference on Online Learning, and there’s a debate in the Scholarly Publishing: What’s Wrong? session, which I find to be a bit of a catch 22. 

Prof Rory McGreal mentioned that he gives preference to African scholars for purposes of representation. Prof Moeketsi Letseka took this to heart, and noted his offence in preference given to…

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Learning as a Journey

Learning as a Journey

I was introduced to the poetry of Suli Breaks some years back, and my thinking was deeply affected by Why I Hate School but Love Education. This is because I am one of those people who has an insatiable appetite for learning but have spent ten years beginning to study, and never finishing.

Coming from a family that values education and being raised by with an educated mother who obviously…

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