Search for dissertations about: "African Leaders"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words African Leaders.

  2. 1. Education for Democracy? : Life Orientation: Lessons on Leadeship Qualities and Voting in South African Comprehensive Schools

    Author : Getahun Yacob Abraham; Inga Wernersson; Ilse Hakvoort; Rajendra Chetty; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Classroom; democracy; differences; leadership qualities; learners; life orientation; participation; South Africa; teachers; voting; Education; Pedagogik; Classroom; democracy; leadership qualities; Life Orientation; Life Skills; South Africa; voting;

    Abstract : This study takes as its starting point how teachers understand, interpret and teach social development aspects of Life Orientation in South African comprehensive schools. The specific focus is on lessons on leadership qualities and voting for third grade learners in four schools, each dominated by either Black, Coloured, White or mixed groups of learners. READ MORE

  4. 2. Not Just Any Water : Hinduism, Ecology and the Ganges Water Controversy

    Author : Sidsel Hansson; Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ecology; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; Hinduism Ganges river Religious change Environmental awareness; Non-Christian religions; Ekologi; Environmental health; Miljömedicin;

    Abstract : Whether the Ganges river in Varanasi (India) is pristinely pure or heavily polluted depends on by whom it qualities are defined, the Brahmin religious specialists in the city or the science oriented environmentalists. While the controversy continues, some Hindu religious leaders are searching for ways to adjust their respective traditions to the environmental paradigms, an initiative that reflects a larger global religious trend. READ MORE

  5. 3. Catholicity Challenging Ethnicity : An Ecclesiological Study of Congregations and Churches in Post-apartheid South Africa

    Author : Erik Berggren; Sven-Erik Brodd; Kajsa Ahlstrand; Daniel Louw; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Catholicity; Democratisation; Ecclesiology; Ethnicity; Faith and Order; Operative Ecclesiology; Post-apartheid; Practices; South Africa; World Council of Churches.; Kyrkovetenskap; Ecclesiology;

    Abstract : This thesis deals with the relationship between the catholicity of the Church and ethnicity. South African congregations and churches have been studied two decades after the advent of democracy to discern their ecclesiological practices. READ MORE

  6. 4. Minerals and Managers: : production contexts as evidence for social organization in Zimbabwean prehistory

    Author : Lorraine Swan; Paul Sinclair; Eva Hjärthner-Holdar; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Archaeology; Zimbabwean past; farming communities; environment; mineral resources; mineral production; social organization; social change; Arkeologi;

    Abstract : In the Zimbabwean past, farming societies utilized mineral resources for their own use and for exchange to local and regional populations, as well as to markets beyond African borders. Successful agriculture was constrained by environmental hazards, principally unpredictable and often inadequate rainfall. READ MORE

  7. 5. Hunting for development. People, land and wildlife in southern Zimbabwe

    Author : Per Zachrisson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Anthropology; Zimbabwe; Gwanda; land; wildlife; livelihood; CAMPFIRE; development; globalisation;

    Abstract : Local communities in Africa, particularly southern Africa with its racially divided land pattern, have seen few economic benefits, apart from subsistence ones, from the region's wildlife during the twentieth century. Commercial, tourist and wildlife interests in the West have part in this development. READ MORE