Written by Dr. Hannes Nel, MBL; D. Com; D. Phil Modernism evolved over a period of approximately 400 years from a philosophy based on the interpretation of the mythical to a paradigm based on logic. Generally speaking, it is a movement towards articulating traditional beliefs and practices with modern ideas […]
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Grant Wilkinson, Executive: Global Business Solutions If an employee refuses to divulge information which might help his or her employer to identify the culprit of misconduct, said employee is guilty of ‘derivative misconduct’. However, to impose a one-sided obligation on an employee, to disclose information to her employer about the […]
What the Constitutional Court Says About Derivative Misconduct
Written by Dr Hannes Nel, MBL; D. Com; D. Phil In our current day and age neoliberalism largely rendered liberalism obsolete. Even so, liberalism is still a relevant paradigm. Liberalism advocates tolerance, progress, humanitarianism, objectivity, reason, democracy, and human rights. To this can be added a host of other positive […]
Research Article 13: Liberalism
by: John Botha: COO of Global Business Solutions There has been significant confusion as to when the provisions of the Labour Laws Amendment Act (LLAA) and the UI Amendment Act – in respect of parental, adoption and commissioning parental leave – will take effect. As a result of UIF system […]
STATUS OF PARENTAL, ADOPTION AND SURROGACY BENEFITS
Written by Dr. Hannes Nel, MBL; D. Com; D. Phil Often also called ‘anti-positivism’ or ‘naturalistic inquiry’, interpretivism is a softer and more subjective way than hermeneutics in which to interpret data. We can also talk about the interpretivist group of paradigms, including hermeneutics and some others that we will […]
Research Article 12: Interpretivism
Written by Dr. Hannes Nel I came across this interesting question in an article written by Samuel BA Isaacs, previous CEO of SAQA, and published in the SAQA Bulletin Volume 12, Number 2 of February 2012. The Bulletin is rather outdated, but the question is not. Here is my attempt […]
Is the NQF modernist, constructivist or post-modernist?
For skills-universe members who may not have heard, the skills development world has lost someone who lived and worked for the development of skills. Adrienne Bird who passed away recently, leaves a legacy of her work. While in NUMSA as a Training Officer in the 1990s, she was perfectly placed […]
Obituary for Adrienne Bird
Written by Dr Hannes Nel, MBL; D. Com; D. Phil Hermeneutics deals with interpretation. Originally, hermeneutics referred to the study of the interpretation of written biblical text, but now it includes the interpretation of any form of communication, including verbal, artistic, geo-political, physiological, sociological, etc. In terms of communication, […]