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The Impacts of a Constructionist Scratch Programming Pedagogy on Student Achievement with a Focus on Gender

Campbell, Oladele O. (Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, United States., 2023-12-05)

Learning to program is a challenge for many novice computing students. This may be partially due to the inadequacy of many conventional pedagogical approaches resulting in dropouts and failure, especially among females and ...
Exploring ethics risk in South Africa’s artificial intelligence industry: towards a risk governance framework

Ormond, Emile (2022-11-24)

The ubiquitous and swift growth of artificial intelligence (AI) coupled with the nature of the technology raises ethical risks for enterprises and for their stakeholders. Artificial intelligence's ethical risks are unlikely ...
Forecasting daily patient arrivals at an Emergency Department of Specified Academic Hospital

Moagi, Gomolemo W. (2024-02)

The hospital Emergency Department (ED) has become the main point of entry for patients in modern hospitals, resulting in frequent overcrowding; as a result, hospital management is increasingly paying attention to the ED ...
Shock and the materialist conception of art: Considerations for a politicised cultural psychology

Malherbe, Nick Malherbe, Nick (Sage, 2024)

The materialist conception of art understands art in relation to the material conditions within and by which art is produced and consumed. For cultural psychology, the materialist conception of art has been useful for ...
Sports as placemaking: critical reflections on a community-engaged campaign

Malherbe, Nick Mavundla, Bongani Freeman, Alex Seedat, Mohamed Malherbe, Nick (Routledge, 2024)

Community-engaged scholarship has largely neglected the potential of sports to construct progressive forms of community and mobilize disparate interests. In this article, we critically reflect on how sports were used ...
Anti-capitalist subjectivity: considerations of fantasy, (in)action, and solidarity building

Malherbe, Nick (Springer, 2024)

Anti-capitalist subjectivities are produced through politically generative refusals of the divisive, profit-oriented, and manageable subject positions made available by capitalism’s socio-symbolic order. Pushing back ...
Climate Justice, Capitalism, and the Political Role of the Psychological Professions

Oladejo, Abiodun Omotayo Malherbe, Nick van Niekerk, Ashley (2024)

The term Anthropocene (Age of Human) implies that the reduction of carbon emissions is a matter of changing human behaviour. This risks depoliticising the climate emergency. Everyone is not equally responsible for climate ...
Driver yield and safe child pedestrian crossing behavior promotion by a school traffic warden program at primary school crossings: A cluster- randomized trial

Osuret, Jimmy van Niekerk, Ashley Kobusingye, Olive Atuyambe, Lynn Nankabirwa, Victoria (Taylor & Francis Group, 2024)

Objective: To determine the effect of a school traffic warden program on increasing driver yield and safe child pedestrian crossing behavior in Kampala, Uganda. Methods: We designed and implemented a school traffic warden ...
A Collaborative Autoethnographic Exploration of Experiences of Research Psychology Interns

Mokobedi, Tshifhiwa Harris, Simone Henning , Tiffany (Unisa Press, 2024)

Navigating the art of theory and practice as three African female research psychology interns in South Africa, we worked in the areas of violence, injury and non-natural deaths which continue to plague the country, including ...
Children’s rights: The need for care, safety and protection

Omarjee, Nadira Taliep, Naiema Morkel, Jade James, Seneca Henning , Tiffany (Sabinet, 2023)

This paper aims to highlight the push factors leading to children’s vulnerabilities especially in historically impoverished communities in post-apartheid South Africa (SA). These push factors are hangovers that Black1 children ...
Toward a decolonial Africa-centering ecological and social psychology

Suffla, Shahnaaz Ratele, Kopano Adams, Glenn Reddy, Geetha Malherbe, Nick (Elsevier B.V, 2023)

As collaborators on projects with epistemic foundations in the diverse everyday realities of different African settings, we respect and endorse the goal of the special issue (SI) to expand “psychological science to include ...
Mapping the perception of urban safety,space and livelihood of girl street children in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Diponegoro, Ahmed Hayati, Elli Nur Pranungsari, Dessy Ismail, Ghouwa Taliep, Naiema Diponegoro (Unisa Press, 2023)

Street children remain a social phenomenon in many low- and middle-income countries in which they experience alienation, discrimination, and social and spatial exclusion. The aim of this study was to identify and understand ...
Child pedestrian crossing behaviour and associated risk factors in school zones: a video-based observational study in Kampala, Uganda

Nankabirwa, Victoria Osuret, Jimmy Van Niekerk, Ashley Kobusingye, Olive Atuyambe, Lynn Nankabirwa, Victoria (BMJ Journals, 2023)

Background Pedestrian crashes, often occurring while road crossing and associated with crossing behaviour, make up 34.8% of road casualties in Uganda. This study determined crossing behaviour and associated factors among ...
A qualitative exploration of forensic pathology service staff perceptions of the implementation barriers and facilitators of manual- and electronic injury mortality surveillance system methods in South Africa

Nabi, Zayaan Arendse, Najuwa van Niekerk, Ashley (BMC Public Health, 2023)

Background Injury mortality surveillance systems are critical to monitor changes in a population’s injury outcomes so that relevant injury prevention responses may be adopted. This is particularly the case in South Africa, ...
Critical psychosocial interventions: A scoping review

DUMANI, NOXOLO Morkel, Jade Malherbe, Nick Cornell, Josephine Suffla, Shahnaaz (2023)

Critical psychosocial interventions aim to improve and maintain well-being by addressing the individual and the social as a single psychosocial entity. Critical psychosocial interventions can assist in developing a holistic ...
A phenomenological study on the experiences of parents of substance users from resource-constrained contexts in the Western Cape, South Africa

James, Seneca Isaacs, Serena (2023)

Adolescent substance use continues to remain a significant problem, especially in low-income communities in South Africa. This phenomenon not only affects individuals and society, but also the parents of the user. Parents ...
Psychology and the question of radical democracy

Malherbe, Nick (2023)

Throughout its history, capitalism has undertaken its extractive, imperial, and expropriative operations under the sign of democracy. Psychology has played a part in the ideological consolidation of capitalist democracy, ...
A Psychoanalytic Case for Anti-capitalism as an Organisational Form

Malherbe, Nick (Sage, 2023)

For many, anti-capitalism signifies too much and thus lacks the political conviction needed to inform left-wing strategy and tactics. What remains neglected, though, is how anti-capitalism can function as an organisational ...
Socioeconomic and psychosocial factors associated with solidarity and prosocial behavior during COVID-19

Taliep, Naiema Ismail, Ghouwa Swart, Lu-Anne Van Niekerk, Ashley Seedat, Mohammed (2023)

The novel virus SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, has had a profound global impact on health, social wellbeing, and economies, with especially devastating effects on vulnerable populations. A ...
Social (in)justices during the educator developmental appraisal process: A post-apartheid South African case study

Naidoo, Parvathy Perumalsamy, Venie Perumal, Juliet Taliep, Naiema (Sage, 2023)

Globally, the appraisal of educators remains a contested issue as the process, which aims to provide support and development to educators, is generally considered a punitive measure for educators. Within the South African ...

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