Gamification in education is still a very new concept in South Africa. Being a 21st-century
invention, it has already established itself in the world within the environs of the corporate
market, marketing, training and ...
The notion and consequences of the Crusades are still influencing the modern Christian
(and Muslim) pattern of thinking. These ‘holy wars’, fought by members of the Roman Catholic
Church, mostly against infidels ...
New tools are added to the educational toolbox in order to enhance and support learning. This
descriptive study expands and explains the intricate nature of blended learning. Adding to the
four basic components of time, ...
This article applies change agency to the institutions of higher education in South
Africa – referring here to all the post-school institutions and educators in general and more
specifically focused on the unique ...
Digital game-based learning (DGBL) – sometimes loosely referred to as gaming – for higher
education has not really found its feet in South Africa as an innovative or alternative tool to
enhance the impact of education. ...
Previous studies on the life and ministry of Richard Ngidi only present historical data on his achievements and to some extent his failures. This paper is a socio- historical analysis that not only reveals historical data ...
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a virus that firstly struck in Wuhan, China,
but its impact is felt by the whole world. The spread of the virus in South Africa caused
President Cyril Ramaphosa to announce ...
Scholars with interest in South African Pentecostalism have highlighted the emergence of New Prophetic Churches (later NPCs) in South Africa in the last 5 years. These scholars have indeed characterised NPCs, their theology ...
Pentecostalism has always been regarded as a movement that does not have all the
ecclesiastical qualities that qualify it to be called a fully-fledged tradition alongside other
major streams of Protestantism. Contrary ...
The doctrine and practices of ordination in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) were adopted from the Wesleyan Methodist Church in England when the Southern African Conference was constituted in 1882. This ...
Two notions are discussed in this article, namely, the (unity of the) Trinity and God’s
omnipresence. These two notions are deeply embedded in the Christian faith system and
religion – they actually form both the basis ...
Higher education in general, and more specifically in the South African environment, is
under pressure to transform. Although learning is often seen as the main focal point, the
education process consists of three equally ...
From the first days of their settlement at the southern part of Africa – from 1652 onwards – the European settlers distinguished themselves from the indigenous people groups by referring to themselves as ‘Christians’. ...
From its inception to the 4th century CE, Christianity experienced a formative process
composite of three catalytic phases characterised by distinctive events (i.e. Jewish-Christian
Schism, Hellenism and imperial ...
In this review article, the book entitled Emergence Christianity, What it is, Where it is Going, and
Why it Matters, written by Phyllis Tickle in 2012, is discussed. The discussion is both informative
(as most of the ...
The 4th century CE was definitive for Early Christianity as there emerged an imperial orthodoxy establishment. This was the inception of an era of a Christian polity characterised by symbiotic ties between the imperial ...
Ethiopianism conceptually shaped modern Africa. Perceivably, this has been deduced from distinguished events in Ethiopian history. This investigation explored Ethiopianism as a derivate of the multifaceted narrative of ...
Fourth-century Christianity and the Council of Nicaea have continually been read as a
Constantinian narrative. The dominancy of imperial Christianity has been a consequent
feature of the established narrative regarding ...
The first 400 years of Christianity posed an intricate scenario of social dynamics. The interplay of these social dynamics or catalysts analogous to time perceivably conceived the political-religious establishment that ...
The research undertakes a critical study of informal fallacies in some socio-political and religious discourses in Ghana. It clearly and aptly demonstrates that the aforementioned discourses are mostly, if not, always laced ...